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Don Whitehead

1908–1981

A hard-driving reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he turned war reporting and major investigations into books for general readers. His career moved from Associated Press dispatches to bestselling nonfiction shaped by firsthand experience.

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Border guard : $b The story of the United States Customs Service

Border guard : $b The story of the United States Customs Service

by Don Whitehead

About the author

Born in 1908, he was an American journalist best known for his work with the Associated Press and for reporting during and after World War II. Reliable sources available here identify him as a major newspaper reporter who won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1951 and the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1952, along with other honors including the George Polk Award and the Medal of Freedom.

He is also remembered as the author of nonfiction books including The FBI Story, which helped carry his reporting style to a wider audience beyond newspapers. The record available in this conversation points to a career built on clear, high-stakes reporting and public-interest journalism.

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