On Apr 25, 2007, at 2:23 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>> whether he was writing about
>> basketball or
>> Vietnam it carried an enormous amount of weight,”
>
> Probably because he didn't have an editor. That's why
> each of his books is larger than the Oxford English
> Dictionary.
I once saw Halberstam hailing a cab. Even that he did pompously. Every movement had to reflect his deep, profound gravitas.
Doug