David Halberstam's Books
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War in a Time of PeacePulitzer Prizewinning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in postCold War America. Evoking the internal...Read More -
Fear And Loathing In AmericaLegendary gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson gives his take on life and politics in this riveting and raw collection of his letters from 1968–1976.Read More
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Kerrville Daily Times, November 18, 2009
...the Library book sale was, “The Best American Sports Writing of the Century,” compiled by Pulitzer Prize winner David Halberstam. That was the 20th century, and Halberstam planned updates to include 21st century writing, but a fatal accident ended...
Hersam Acorn, November 12, 2009
...have just one influence,” Mr. Simmons said. “You should read as many writers as you can. I loved David Halberstam and Ray Fitzgerald, who was a sportswriter for the Boston Globe, and the great screenwriter William Goldman and Raymond Carver and Roger...
Travel Pulse, October 29, 2009
...press club during the Vietnam War, the Caravelle was frequented by policy makers and such media icons as David Halberstam, Peter Arnett, Morley Safer, Neil Sheehan and Walter Cronkite. CBS News and ABC News had bureaus in the hotel, as did the New York...
Boston Globe, October 23, 2009
...with Baldwin were the first to link the burglary right to the heart of the Nixon reelection campaign, David Halberstam wrote in his 1979 book The Powers That Be. Named in 1975 to lead the papers Washington bureau, Mr. Nelson oversaw its evolution over...
Charleston Gazette, October 20, 2009
...nation's 10 most influential media critics. Previous McCreight speakers include: Ken Burns, Henry Louis Gates, Elaine Pagels, David Halberstam, Joyce Carol Oates and Richard Norton Smith. Thursday's program begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Culture Center....
Middle East Online, October 15, 2009
...a Vietnam syllabus you're looking for, President Obama, why not start with The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam's brilliant dissection of the Vietnam disaster? Having covered Vietnam as a New York Times reporter, he knew a bankrupt war when he...
Common Dreams, October 13, 2009
...a Vietnam syllabus you're looking for, President Obama, why not start with The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam's brilliant dissection of the Vietnam disaster? Having covered Vietnam as a New York Times reporter, he knew a bankrupt war when he...
Thanhnien, October 4, 2009
...press club, the Caravelle was frequented by policy makers and such media icons as Peter Arnett, Neil Sheehan, David Halberstam and Walter Cronkite. It also housed the offices of a number of international press organizations during the war period such as...
Slate Magazine, September 28, 2009
...the way of a good story. Related in Slate See Jack Shafer's obits for Lady Jeanne Campbell, David Halberstam, Michael Kelly, Marjorie Williams, A.M. Rosenthal, Robert L. Bartley, and Walter Annenberg. I witnessed Safire hackery in action on Nov. 1, 2004,...
NPR, September 27, 2009
...It caused a small uproar within the paper and journalism circles. Such leading writers as former Times reporter David Halberstam argued it was a betrayal to hire a Nixon apologist ? someone who had crafted rhetoric for an administration whose abuses of...
Elon University, September 25, 2009
...campus each year. Guests in past years have included David McCullough, George Will, Anna Quindlen, Thomas Friedman and David Halberstam. Williams was the first poet to visit for the lecture. The Pulitzer Prizes, awarded each year since 1917, are the...
Mobile County Press-Register, September 22, 2009
...A phone conversation with David Halberstam led ESPN anchor and reporter Jeremy Schaap on the path of his latest book project. 'He told me, 'You know what you should do next? You should write a...
Comic Book Resources, September 9, 2009
...Click hereto read CBR's interview with Paul Levitz & Diane Nelson about DC Entertainment. Click here Click here for Joe Quesada's exclusive interview about Marvel-Disney! Click here for DC Comics President & Publisher Paul Levitz's resignation from the...
Seattle Times, August 28, 2009
...complex family tensions simmering inside Ted Kennedy and his siblings. " 'The Best and the Brightest' (1972), by David Halberstam, demonstrated how the most appealing elements of the Kennedys radiant confidence, intelligence, self-assurance could...
The New Criterion, August 22, 2009
...Wallace-Wells?s effort in The New Republic to persuade that liberal magazine?s readers that those who recalled David Halberstam?s The Best and the Brightest on the death last month of Robert McNamara were misunderstanding the book?s 'lesson.'...
Boston Globe, August 19, 2009
...When monumental years of the 20th century are listed, 1959 usually doesn?t make the cut. The roster usually includes 1932, 1948, 1960, 1968, and 1980, but Fred Kaplan has written a book-length brief for including the last year of the 1950s in the group...
Times Online, July 8, 2009
...myself with one of the - in fact perhaps the - greatest political books I have ever read. David Halberstam's The Best and The Brightest is a profile of two things. First, the team of brilliant young men who came to Washington with JFK. And second, the...
American Chronicle, July 6, 2009
...the extreme _ when they were not bald-faced lies. Upon hanging up I would call Neil Sheehan and David Halberstam and run McNamara's comments past them for deconstruction and the addition of the truth. The only disagreement I ever had with Dave Halberstam...
Green Valley News and Sun, July 4, 2009
...So those are my first two recommendations. During the next few weeks, I?ll be discussing pieces by David Halberstam, Norman Mailer, Jim Murray, Red Smith, W.C. Heinz, Hunter S. Thompson, Rick Reilly, Bill Simmons, Ralph Wiley, Frank Deford, Gary...
Asiaone, July 3, 2009
...2) The Amateurs: The Story Of Four Young Men And Their Quest For An Olympic Gold Medal By David Halberstam A stunning insight into sacrifice and the will of athletes as four rowers, all married to pain, attempt to qualify for the 1984 Olympics. It is...
Blogcritics.org, June 24, 2009
...would love to do something like John Feinstein, who writes great sports books. The same is true for David Halberstam, who wrote great books about sports. Can you tell us a little about your latest book? The book is How to Win a Pitch: The Five...
Cape Cod Online, May 31, 2009
...mid-19th century, and ends with the novel, too. But in between, writers as diverse as Thomas Jefferson and David Halberstam weigh in on Nantucket's beauty and historic importance. A formal launch of the book will take place at the Nantucket Atheneum...
Examiner.com, May 24, 2009
...The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm by Gail Lumet Buckley and David Halberstam. Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks. Pub. Year: 2002. PP. 608. Ages Grade 7 and up. $12.75. 'Buckley originally wrote Patriots for an...
Blogcritics.org, May 13, 2009
...share of controversy and criticism. Baseball and baseball books used to be a lot more fun. Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam's is one of those books, in part because it's written about four men who played during that time. Those four men -- Ted...
Blogcritics.org, May 13, 2009
...share of controversy and criticism. Baseball and baseball books used to be a lot more fun. Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam's The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship is one of those books, in part because it's written about four men who played...
Aljazeera.com, May 4, 2009
...a military solution to the situation in South Vietnam. Nevertheless, knowing better, the 'best and brightest,' as journalist David Halberstam termed them in his famous, ironic book title, still talked themselves into it; and they did so, as McCarthy...
Washington Post, April 26, 2009
...failure, too important to be left to the 'experts'? This is the question posed decades ago by David Halberstam in 'The Best and the Brightest,' his landmark study of the Vietnam War. And it is one provocatively raised by James Mann in this revealing...
AlterNet.org, April 20, 2009
...a military solution to the situation in South Vietnam. Nevertheless, knowing better, the 'best and brightest,' as journalist David Halberstam termed them in his famous, ironic book title, still talked themselves into it; and they did so, as McCarthy...
Common Dreams, April 17, 2009
...a military solution to the situation in South Vietnam. Nevertheless, knowing better, the 'best and brightest,' as journalist David Halberstam termed them in his famous, ironic book title, still talked themselves into it; and they did so, as McCarthy...
Tom Dispatch, April 17, 2009
...a military solution to the situation in South Vietnam. Nevertheless, knowing better, the 'best and brightest,' as journalist David Halberstam termed them in his famous, ironic book title, still talked themselves into it; and they did so, as McCarthy...
North Texas e-News, April 10, 2009
...d. 2001) 1932 ? Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor 1933 ? Rokusuke Ei, Japanese lyricist and author 1934 ? David Halberstam, American journalist and author (d. 2007) 1934 ? Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist 1935 ? John A. Bennett, American convicted...
Nashua Telegraph, March 29, 2009
...fan of Stephen King. His wordsmithing is really underrated. Also, I found myself taking lots of cues from David Halberstam's books, such as 'The Fifties' and 'Summer of '49,' as well as Truman Capote's 'In Cold Blood.' I enjoy how they could tell you the...
Chicago Tribune, March 21, 2009
...Three other books of interest for basketball fans:'The Breaks of the Game' by David Halberstam. The greatest reporter of his generation turned his discerning eye on the 1980s NBA, from the vantage point of a superstar (Bill Walton) and a hanger-on (Greg...
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, March 20, 2009
...work. It contains an essay by AP Bureau Chief Hal Buell and contributions by Peter Arnett, Tom Brokaw, David Halberstam, George Esper and David Hume Kennerly. It has additional photos, articles written by Adams, pages from journals and other artifacts....
New York Times, March 12, 2009
...t the chief characteristic of the ?best and brightest,? ?each new man more brilliant than the last,? whom David Halberstam described in the 1972 book that brought the phrase into our common parlance. His ?best and brightest? were ultimately...
Observer-Dispatch, March 8, 2009
...more complete era book than Torre could have produced himself. It stands up to those by Roger Kahn, David Halberstam and Buster Olney, whose The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty covers much of the same time frame and argues that Game 7 of the 2001 World...
Capital Times, February 25, 2009
...Stoughton Public Library, I asked the reference librarian for a copy of 'The Best and the Brightest' by David Halberstam. She looked it up and said, 'Our copy is out. Monroe has it, and will send it to your branch. They'll call you.' They did, in three...
Oxford Press, February 23, 2009
...companies have greatly expanded our drug exposure during the past 30 years. ?The Breaks of the Game,? by David Halberstam (Hyperion, 400 pages, $15.99). David Halberstam was a triple threat: an extraordinary journalist, a gifted historian and a...
Greene County Daily World, February 18, 2009
...recommendations on what I found to be some good reading. My most recent efforts were two books by David Halberstam, 'Everything They Had' and 'The Best American Sports Writing of the Century'. Halberstam was one of my very favorite authors and has...
Tennessean, February 2, 2009
...to increase circulation among black readers. The 1998 book The Children - the account by former Tennessean reporter David Halberstam of the Nashville civil rights movement - said Mr. Churchwell met with hostility in his own newsroom and among some...
New York Times, January 14, 2009
...1958 N.F.L. championship game between the Giants and the Baltimore Colts. Someone else was supposed to: David Halberstam. In a telephone interview last week about ?The Glory Game: How the 1958 N.F.L. Championship Changed Football Forever,? written with...
Washington Times, January 7, 2009
...different from the president's own. Included on the list provided by Mr. Rove were works by authors David Halberstam, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and James M. McPherson, all liberals, as well as the novel 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus, generally regarded as...
CourierPostOnline.com, January 3, 2009
...was different from the president's own. Included on the list provided by Rove were works by authors David Halberstam, Doris Kearns Goodwin and James M. McPherson, all liberals, as well as the novel 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus, generally regarded as an...
Town Hall, January 2, 2009
...was different from the president's own. Included on the list provided by Rove were works by authors David Halberstam, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and James M. McPherson, all liberals, as well as the novel 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus, generally regarded as...
Washington Post, December 31, 2008
...the Constitution. Absent too is Barton Gellman's 'Angler,' about Dick Cheney, the waterboarder in chief. Bush read David Halberstam's 'The Coldest Winter,' which is about the Korean War, but not on the list is Halberstam's 'The Best and the Brightest,'...
Washington Post, December 30, 2008
...the Constitution. Absent too is Barton Gellman's 'Angler,' about Dick Cheney, the waterboarder in chief. Bush read David Halberstam's 'The Coldest Winter,' which is about the Korean War, but not on the list is Halberstam's 'The Best and the Brightest,'...
Guardian Unlimited, December 29, 2008
...is 40 volumes to my 64. His reading this year included a heavy dose of history -- including David Halberstam's 'The Coldest Winter,' Rick Atkinson's 'Day of Battle,' Hugh Thomas's 'Spanish Civil War,' Stephen W. Sears's 'Gettysburg' and David King's...
PublishersWeekly.com, December 19, 2008
...McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam by Gordon Goldstein (Times Books/Henry Holt). Bundy, one of David Halberstam's Best and Brightest, had this to say about the two presidents he served: 'Kennedy didnt want to be dumb; Johnson didnt want to be...
PublishersWeekly.com, December 17, 2008
...McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam by Gordon Goldstein (Times Books/Henry Holt). Bundy, one of David Halberstam's Best and Brightest, had this to say about the two presidents he served: 'Kennedy didnt want to be dumb; Johnson didnt want to be...
The New Republic Online, November 24, 2008
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Manage Life, October 22, 2009
...mind although I think he was just trying to scare me for my own sake. I am finishing David Halberstam ’s ‘War in the Time of Peace’. I think it is a minor masterpiece which he is well known for creating. I think he is at a...
Chuck Kuhn's Asia in Photos, October 11, 2009
...press club, the Caravelle was frequented by policy makers and such media icons as Peter Arnett, Neil Sheehan, David Halberstam and Walter Cronkite. It also housed the offices of a number of international press organizations during the war period such as...
Baseball Reflections, September 24, 2009
...eyes of world renown broadcaster and sports history buff, Bob Costas. The Teammates: A Portrait of Friendship by David Halberstam A look at the special friendships of Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky , Bobby Doerr and Dom DiMaggio of the Boston Red Sox. ...
Shelfari, September 22, 2009
...up after just the prologue, and I'm convinced that you've written the finest basketball book since David Halberstam's The Breaks of the Game . So what's my beef? I direct your attention to the miserable photo on the right. Yep - that's my knee...
Armchair Generalist, August 27, 2009
...Because I've heard so many people comment about David Halberstam's book " The Best and The Brightest ," I decided that I had to seek this out and start reading it on my daily commute into work. I...
EconLog, August 19, 2009
...outsiders too much also cannot be trusted. The book I am currently reading (for the nth time) is David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest . Halberstam's theme is that a finance and policy elite defined by college ties and related social connections,...
ArchivesBlogs, June 16, 2009
...Unraveling the Mysteries of our Favorite Crustacean / Trevor Corson QL444.M33 C675 2004 Summer of '49 / David Halberstam GV875.B62 H35 1989 The Very Hungry Caterpillar / by Eric Carle PZ7.C21476 Ve 1979 A Massachusetts Book Award Winner A Walk in the...
The Quaker Agitator, June 3, 2009
...friends of mine have been bugging me to read… The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam. Korea was my father’s war, and I know next to nothing about it. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace, One School...
Pastor Glen's MySpace Blog, May 24, 2009
...life which was with the Father and was manifested to us. —1 John 1:2 Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam died in a traffic accident 5 months before the publication of his landmark book about the US war in Korea. In the days following the...
Latin America News Review, May 2, 2009
...review : With her ability to combine no-stone-left-unturned investigative reporting with in-depth social analysis, Klein is her generation's David Halberstam, her Shock Doctrine and an earlier book No Logo being on par with The Best and the Brightest and...
Hub Blog, April 9, 2009
...but I wouldn't say the best on Korea. Also try the histories by Joseph Goulden, Max Hastings, David Halberstam, Bruce Cummings. If you are a MacArthur apologist, be sure you read Halberstam.... Update -- Hub Blog asked Jon for a Korean War recommendation...
Hub Blog, April 9, 2009
...but I wouldn't say the best on Korea. Also try the histories by Joseph Goulden, Max Hastings, David Halberstam, Bruce Cummings. If you are a MacArthur apologist, be sure you read Halberstam.... ¶ 6:47 AM...
~*LunaSea*~, April 2, 2009
...April is the month of settling in, days getting warmer and the promise of good music. March was moving, but April is all about adjustment. In the meantime, it is also about these books: Noblest Roman by David Halberstam ~ in honor of Halberstam’s...
The Online Photographer, April 2, 2009
...Benson (Museum of Modern Art). Our "Book of the Year" of 2008. 4. Larry Burrows: Vietnam introduction by David Halberstam (Knopf). If you liked this, you'll want to know about the new and long-awaited Eddie Adams: Vietnam . Kirk Tuck 5. Minimalist...
Omnivoracious, March 25, 2009
...mulling ever since the Books of the States got going last fall: The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam: Much as it pains an old Watergate nut like me to leave off All the President's Men or John Dean's delicious and riveting mea culpa, Blind...
Citizen Jake, March 22, 2009
...I’m reading David Halberstam’s The Education of a Coach and I just thought this bit of writing, regarding Bill Belichick, was great: “The voice on his phone message-”Sorry to have missed...
santiago, January 27, 2009
...Roger Maris of the Yankees and Bob Gibson and Lou Brock of the Cardinals. Most of all, however, David Halberstam’s new book should be a hit with anyone interested in understanding the important interplay between sports and society.” –The Boston...
desimoni blog, January 11, 2009
...sport.” *Walter Clemons Newsweek “A PENETRATING, FASCINATING AND REMARKABLY SUSPENSEFUL NARRATIVE.” *David Guy Chicago Tribune In The Amateurs, David Halberstam once again displays the unique brand of reportage, both penetrating and supple, that...
marquardt blog, January 7, 2009
...Roger Maris of the Yankees and Bob Gibson and Lou Brock of the Cardinals. Most of all, however, David Halberstam’s new book should be a hit with anyone interested in understanding the important interplay between sports and society.” –The Boston...
A Crockhead Abroad, January 1, 2009
...Ron Susskind Tempting Faith, David Kuo Truth and Beauty, Ann Patchett What Happened, Scott McClelland The Coldest Winter, David Halberstam Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones That Old Ace In A Hole, Annie Proulx I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron The Man Without...
Piece Of Mind, December 31, 2008
...a full newspaper account is unlikely to dive into the tomes that Rove credits him with reading - “David Halberstam’s “The Coldest Winter,” Rick Atkinson’s “Day of Battle,” Hugh Thomas’s “Spanish Civil War,” Stephen W. Sears’s...
Have Coffee Will Write, December 31, 2008
...and Timothy Haftali Rogue Regime by Jasper Becker Shia Revival, The by Vali Nasr Coldest Winter, The by David Halberstam Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears Vienna 1814 by David King Personal...
Largehearted Boy, December 26, 2008
...George W. Bush's reading habits. His reading this year included a heavy dose of history -- including David Halberstam's "The Coldest Winter," Rick Atkinson's "Day of Battle," Hugh Thomas's "Spanish Civil War," Stephen W. Sears's "Gettysburg" and David...
leland, December 20, 2008
...Roger Maris of the Yankees and Bob Gibson and Lou Brock of the Cardinals. Most of all, however, David Halberstam’s new book should be a hit with anyone interested in understanding the important interplay between sports and society.” –The Boston...
Baron VC, December 7, 2008
...when in fact they would ill-prepared had they been victorious. I enjoyed reading this book and only wish David Halberstam had lived long enough to follow this important piece of work up. War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David...
Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes, December 6, 2008
...The Handmaid's Tale at Mediterranean Books, Dick's A Scanner Darkly at the Borders in Brentwood, and David Halberstam's The Fifties while I was at MLA in Chicago last year. Gross and Levitt's Higher Superstition came from Wash U's bookstore (and I happen...
Bethesda Blog, December 5, 2008
...Kotaku , Bethesda Forums , lots of email, Lord of the Rings Ron Seger: The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam...
Suzie-Q, November 30, 2008
...Bundy became dean of the faculty at Harvard — an astonishing responsibility for someone still only 34. Even David Halberstam , who would play so important a role in the public demolition of Bundy’s reputation in his classic, “ The Best and the...
Omnivoracious, November 26, 2008
...Nelson's Paranoid Park ; Palahniuk's mentor Tom Spanbauer; the pre-Kesey Great Oregon Author, H.L. Davis; and David Halberstam's now-classic account of the '79 Blazers, The Breaks of the Game , due out in February in a new edition. --Tom...
