War in a Time of Peace, David Halberstam
War in a Time of Peace, David Halberstam
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War in a Time of Peace
Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

Author: David Halberstam

Narrator: David Halberstam

Abridged: 5 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2001

Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize­-winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post­ Cold War America.

Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how the decisions of men who served in the Vietnam War, and those who did not, have shaped America's role in global events. He provides fascinating portraits of those in power—Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Kissinger, James Baker, Dick Cheney, Madeleine Albright, and others—to reveal a stunning view of modern political America.

About David Halberstam

David Halberstam was one of America's most distinguished journalists and historians, a man whose newspaper reporting and books have helped define the era we live in. He graduated from Harvard in 1955, took his first job on the smallest daily in Mississippi, and then covered the early civil rights struggle for the Nashville Tennessean. He joined The New York Times in 1960, went overseas almost immediately, first to the Congo and then to Vietnam. His early pessimistic dispatches from Vietnam won him the Pulitzer in 1964 at the age of thirty. His last twelve books, starting with The Best and the Brightest and including The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, and The Fifties, have all been national bestsellers. Thirty-eight years after Mr. Halberstam won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Vietnam, War in a Time of Peace was the runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in April 2007.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph on March 07, 2021

Simply stated, another great book from the late David Halberstam. "War In A Time Of Peace," deals primarily with the Clinton Administration's response to the wars in the Balkans (the old Yugoslavia) and the genocide committed by the Serb and the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic against the Muslim p......more

Goodreads review by Tim on August 06, 2016

David Halberstam produces here a useful historical document, as an experienced journalist who undertook many primary source interviews to get some sense of the conflicts between the military and the political leadership over policy and power that took place under Bush I and Clinton (I). The narrative......more

Goodreads review by Bob on January 26, 2020

Summary: A history of the post-Cold War conflicts of the first Bush and the Clinton administrations, with extensive coverage of the Balkan conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. David Halberstam wrote one of the first major accounts of how the United States became bogged down in the Vietnam War in The B......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on April 17, 2017

In some ways very useful and interesting, in others frustrating and unoriginal. Halberstam is obviously a tremendous writer, and his flair and imagination come across strongly in this book. He covers the history of US foreign intervention, especially the debate over humanitarian intervention in Bosn......more

Goodreads review by Jay on June 12, 2022

Halberstram was a great writer. Although he was a Democrat, he was a moderate. He aligned himself most often with Bobby Kennedy. However he shows little bias in his works. This book is about the U.S. failure to have a good policy after the break up of Yugoslavia. The Serbs ethnic cleansing of the Al......more

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