Title: gave up
Product review: This is a pretentious book even before it begins. The long-winded preface written by Halberstam was self-serving and vain, and rubbed me the wrong way. After getting that behind me, I tried plowing through the main body, but gave up. I was born in the early 60s, so I'm not as familiar with some of the characters or politics of that era (hence my desire to read the book), and I found myself getting lost by some of the tangents, complex sentences, and ancillary information. He was trying to cram too much information and too many diverse thoughts into each sentence. Despite my effort, I was not getting much insight into the characters.I read his book "The Fifties" a while ago and remembered it as a good book. Likewise, I had high hopes for this book, but in the end, I gave up.
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