For Immediate Release						 May 6, 1996
 
Award-Winning Author David Halberstam Receiving Honorary Degree, Looks at the
Changing Global Economy in Lawrence University Convocation 
 
 
	APPLETON, WIS. -  Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and best-selling
author David Halberstam will discuss the difference between a life and a career 
Thursday, May 16 in a Lawrence University convocation entitled, "The World You
Inherit," at 11:10 a.m. in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel.  
	Prior to his remarks, Halberstam will be awarded an honorary Doctor of
Literature degree from Lawrence.  In his remarks, Halberstam will examine the
importance of education for economic success as national and global economies
continue to grow less dependent on blue-collar occupations.  Halberstam's
address, which is free and open to the public, is the last in Lawrence's 1995-96
convocation series, "The Ideas That Shape Our Time, The People Who Shape Our
Ideas."  
	A critical voice in American and world history for nearly 40 years,
Halberstam, 62, rose to national prominence in the mid-1960s as a New York Times
correspondent covering the Vietnam War, earning a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for
international reporting.  His controversial articles often questioned the
"official" version of events.  Following his Pulitzer, he continued to examine
the war in a series of books and magazine articles, including 1972's
best-selling, "The Best and the Brightest," a critical examination that
chronicles the path used by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to take America to
war in "Southeast Asia.  
	Famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, who helped uncover the
Watergate scandal, credits Halberstam's aggressive, comprehensive coverage of
the Vietnam War with inspiring him and many other journalists to enter the
profession. 
	Heralded as "a legend in American journalism" by Harper's Magazine,
Halberstam is well known for his influential books and articles covering a wide
range of subjects.  In addition to "The Best and the Brightest," Halberstam has
written a string of other best sellers, including "The Powers That Be," his 1979
account of the dramatic rise in power of the modern media, specifically the four
news-reporting giants Time Inc., CBS, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles
Times, and "The Reckoning," which describes Japan's rise as an economic
superpower by looking at the dual histories of automobile makers Ford in the
United States and Nissan in Japan.  "The Reckoning" earned Halberstam the 1986
Political Book Award.  He's currently at work on his 15th book, which will
examine the civil rights movement in Nashville in the 1960s.
	Born in New York City, Halberstam began his journalism career with the
Daily Times Leader in West Point, Miss.  He spent four years at the Nashville
Tennessean before joining The New York Times as a foreign correspondent in
1960.  He earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1955.
                                  
 

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