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David Halberstam

David Halberstam
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David Halberstam

David Halberstam was one of America's most distinguished journalists and historians, a man whose newspaper reporting and books have helped define the era we live in. He graduated from Harvard in 1955, took his first job on the smallest daily in Mississippi, and then covered the early civil rights struggle for the Nashville Tennessean. He joined The New York Times in 1960, went overseas almost immediately, first to the Congo and then to Vietnam. His early pessimistic dispatches from Vietnam won him the Pulitzer in 1964 at the age of thirty. His last twelve books, starting with The Best and the Brightest and including The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, and The Fifties,... Read full bio

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Tennessean, February 10, 2012
...the show over the years are John Updike, Erma Bombeck, Gay Talese, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Hicks, Ann Patchett, David Halberstam, David Maraniss, Kinky Friedman, Studs Terkel, Al Gore Jr., Gail Sheehy, Rick Bragg and Deepak Chopra. When Seigenthaler...
Examiner.com, February 10, 2012
...old WGN." That World Series was one of the subjects of a New York Times bestseller by David Halberstam titled October 1964. The book is still in print. Johnny Keane was hired by the New York Yankees for the 1965 season. Ernie Broglio? He won seven games...
Channel4000, February 6, 2012
...article as if from a terrific meal, satisfied and delighted. Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, David Halberstam and, more recently, Washington-focused writers like Bob Woodward, Joe Klein, and John Heilemann and Mark Halperin --...
Inside Bay Area, January 28, 2012
...of war reporters made their names in Vietnam by challenging inane Pentagon policies and propaganda. Hastings is no David Halberstam or Michael Herr, but he brings a fresh eye and brutally authentic voice to America's decade-old misadventure in...
Chicago Reader, January 26, 2012
...Rose! By the way, you can read all about those Jordan years in great books by Sam Smith, David Halberstam and other writers, which you should be able to find at your local library. Provided you don't go there on Sundays. Neighborhood branches are closed...
MySanAntonio, January 22, 2012
...Durham mining village circa 1767, the thoroughly engrossing “The Quality of Mercy.” A sequel to “Sacred Hunger,” which David Halberstam called “possibly the best novel I've read in the last decade,” Unsworth imagines the events that follow...
Chicago Tribune, January 12, 2012
...of war reporters made their names in Vietnam by challenging inane Pentagon policies and propaganda. Hastings is no David Halberstam or Michael Herr, but he brings a fresh eye and a brutally authentic voice to America's decade-old misadventure in...
Celebrity Blog: Women and Girls Pretty Beautiful, October 12, 2011
...Reading Poetry Actress Glenn Close and author David Halberstam chat together at the 5th annual “Poetry & The Creative Mind” celebrity poetry reading, benefiting The Academy of American Poets, on April 11, 2007, in New York...
Books on The Knob, October 11, 2011
...The Color of Magic with Bonus Material ($0.99), by Terry Pratchett, is the first title in the Discworld series. This bonus edition is a pre-order, but one I highly recommend, and includes an excerpt of Terry Pratchett’s latest novel, Snuff!. You can...
A Kindle World blog, October 11, 2011
...for $2.99100 Recipes Every Woman Should Know by Cindi Leive for $2.99 The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam for $2.69 HarperCollins:Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel (P.S.) by Tom Franklin for $2.99  <["A steal"]Waiter Rant (P.S.) by Steve...
PowellsBooks.Blog, October 4, 2011
...see so many literary references in a sports biography. You mention Joan Didion, Joseph Campbell, John McPhee, and David Halberstam, to name just a few. Have you always been a big reader? West: When I was going to school, I hated to read. I got by in...
The Blog, September 12, 2011
...I filed a few lines to Reuters where I was employed. My neighbor, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning author, David Halberstam, recorded the bravery on a human scale in his best-selling 2002 book, Firehouse. David died in an auto crash in 2007. Kevin Shea,...
We're Bucked: A Milwaukee Bucks Blog, August 9, 2011
...NBA habit — reading old books about the league — with more zest than usual. One old read, David Halberstam’s  Breaks of the Game,  sits front and center on the eye-level shelf of my bookcase as a prized possession. Until now, though, I never...
American Consumer News, August 4, 2011
...is available as a digital audiobook from Audible.com. The title, provided by Recorded Books and authored by David Halberstam, has also become an American Consumer News favorite.. The digital audiobook Education of a Coach, narrated by Tom Stechschulte,...