Douglas Brinkley says he got the idea to write a biography of Walter Cronkite from David Halberstam.
Halberstam is implicitly relying on an economic theory that the federal budget deficits are a major cause of inflation.
In the end, though, Brinkley is determined to back the claim that Halberstam made on that momentous car ride.
That - well, that's a - it's great story, but you realize you're competing with David Halberstam and Fred Rogers.
He caught David Halberstam, who went on to write 19 books, when he was fresh back from Vietnam and had written none.
They include David Halberstam, a reporter who made his name in the Vietnam war, and two historians, Alan Brinkley and Patricia Nelson.
This view was apparently so widely accepted that Halberstam took it for granted that his readers would understand and agree with his reasoning.
While you're at it, be sure to get The Best American Sports Writing of the Century, edited by David Halberstam and Glenn Stout.
Everything that is most admirable in his new book reflects Mr Halberstam's primary passions as a writer and former war correspondent for the New York Times.
But the question needs asking, and it is unlikely to be asked by an observer like Mr Halberstam, who has come to think the best of America's brightest.
Because of this identification, Mr Halberstam holds back from asking some really hard questions about America's policy in the Balkans, including its role in the final months of the Bosnian war.
As he describes the Clinton team's evolution from relative impotence in Bosnia during its early months to dynamic involvement in 1995, Mr Halberstam gives a sympathetic hearing to the foreign-service officers who protested strongly because America seemed to be condoning Serb atrocities, about which the United States, with its signal and satellite intelligence, was uniquely well informed.
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