The Making of a Quagmire: An Uncomplimentary Account of Our Precarious Commitment in South Vietnam
by: David Halberstam

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket, 323 pages. A contemporary account of early U.S. involvement in Vietnam -- and the problems manifesting themselves in the effort -- by legendary journalist and author David Halberstam. Halberstam covered Vietnam for the New York Times in the early 1960s and won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.