(April 10, 1934- ) Born in New York City; educated at Harvard (B.A., 1955). After college took reporting job in Mississippi with West Point Daily Times Leader (1955-56); later worked for Nashville Tennesseean (1956-60), and as New York Times staff writer (1960-67). Shared Pulitzer Prize and George Polk award for foreign reporting, 1964. Left Times in 1967 to become contributing editor for Harper's. His books include The Noblest Roman (novel, 1961), The Making of a Quagmire (1965), One Very Hot Day (novel, 1968), The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy (1969), Ho (1971), The Best and the Brightest (1972), The Powers That Be (1979), The Breaks of the Game (1981), The Amateurs (1985), The Reckoning (1987), Summer of '49 (1989), The Next Century (1991), The Fifties (1993), October 1964 (1994), The Children (1998), War in a Time of Peace (2001), and Firehouse (2002).