books by David Halberstam

books by David Halberstam

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David Halberstam

October 1964

David Halberstam

Ballantine Books, 1995

An Epochal World Series
A classic matchup: the establishment Yankees vs the underdog Cardinals, who field a younger, more diverse team. The St Louis team makes the Series by the slimmest of margins after overcoming what most thought to be an insurmountable September lead by the Phillies. Then ...

The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal

David Halberstam

Ballantine Books, 1996

Another great book from David Halberstam
I read this book in spite of the facts that I have no interest in rowing and know nothing about it. I read it only because it was written by David Halberstam, and I've loved everything I've ever read by him. This book was no exception. Even though I still know ...

The Fifties

David Halberstam

Ballantine Books, 1994

Mr. Halberstam's Best Book, A very Colorful Survey.
Honestly, this book should be required reading for all of our high school students. It is far better than any traditional school texts we had covering this era. "The Fifties," is a finely written history of the decade that the author considers "seminal in determining ...

The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam

Ballantine Books, 1993

A number of similarities with Iraq 40 years later.
I read this book when it was first published and then found it to be an excellent description of the failures of the Kennedy-Johnson administration as it incrementally entered a war with North Vietnam. I have read it again after I read of Mr. Halberstam's death a few ...

EVERYTHING THEY HAD: SPORTS WRITING FROM DAVID HALBERSTAM
David Halberstam

Hyperion, 2008

"Sometimes sports mirrors society, sometimes it allows us to understand the larger society a little better. But mostly, it is a world of entertainment of talented and driven young men and women who do certain things with both skill and passion." --David Halberstam David Halberstam was a distinguished journalist and historian of American ...

The Children

David Halberstam

Ballantine Books, 1999

if you need to renew your faith in America, read this
Halberstam has produced another masterpiece, perhaps his best since B&B. As with Vietnam, this book is permeated by his personal experience as a young reporter full of ambition and working hard to find a story. The story here are the young people, who appeared as if ...

Larry Burrows: Vietnam

Larry Burrows

Knopf, 2002

Incredible.
This collection of Burrows' work in Vietnam is unbelievable. At great risk, he captured photos of American soldiers and Marines in Vietnam -- photos of young men that seem to leap off the page. Nothing like this has come of coverage of the wars in Iraq and ...

The Powers That Be

David Halberstam

University of Illinois Press, 2000

Amazing Book--Must Reading for All
I read this book years ago and it still sticks with me. As a reporter in Vietnam, Halberstam was a thorn in the side of the Johnson and Nixon administration. He was watched by Nixon's plumbers and the FBI; Nixon thought he was a subversive. What he is is an ...

The Best American Sports Writing of the Century

Houghton Mifflin, 1999

Outstanding collection but a small part of what is out there
Years ago I read a piece included in this book, called 'Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu' by John Updike. I was reading a lot of Updike at that time, and found it strangely to be the most moving, the best thing he had written. I will venture to say it is one of the best things ...

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

David Halberstam

Hyperion, 2007

A war orphaned by historians
In terms of books written about it, the Korean War was the black hole of American historiography, compared to the large output on WW2 and Vietnam; a nasty 'little' forgotten war. With Halberstam's last book before he died in a car accident, the gap is a little ...

War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

David Halberstam

Scribner, 2002

Halberstam does it again
David Halberstam delivers another masterpiece in his book on how the Balkan crisis came about. This book is very fair condemning Bush Sr, Clinotn and all of the generals including Colin Powell for their actions in this area. The United States dropped the ball in ...

Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

David Halberstam

Broadway, 2000

Best Jordan/Bulls book ever by a legendary writer
This book not only offers the most incisive portrait of Jordan, the Bulls championship years, and the NBA of that era, but is also wonderful Halberstam, who tells the story with an epic sweep. Simply a beautiful work from cover to cover.

The Education of a Coach

David Halberstam, 2005

Portrait of Belichick the Coach, not Belichick the Man
"The Education of a Coach" is not only about how Bill Belichick came to win three super bowls in four years, but the people that helped shape his career along the way, notably his father Steve. The book talks about Steve's years as a coach and how Bill was involved ...

A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti

Algonquin Books, 1998

A Glorious Book About A Glorious Game
When renaissance scholar A. Bartlett Giamatti was asked to become president of Yale University, he said the only presidency he had ever aspired to was that of the American League. Instead, a few years later, he took the helm of the National League, and shortly after ...

The Red Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water

Daniel J. Boyne

The Lyons Press, 2005

The Tabula Rasa of US Women's Rowing
If Odysseus could have read Daniel J.Boyne's book `The Red Rose Crew" he would have had no reason to be tied to the mast to cox his ear-waxed crew through the Sirenum Scopuli unscathed. The Sirens would have gladly faced their un-timely end with the knowledge that ...