David Halberstam, Author . Scribner $28 (544p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0212-1
Events and personalities clash in this extraordinary sequel to Halberstam's classic examination of America's road to Vietnam, The Best and the Brightest
(to be reissued in September by Modern Library). Thirty years on, the world is a...
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David Halberstam, Author . Hyperion $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0005-0
Halberstam's gripping chronicle of a company of Manhattan firemen on September 11 is moving without ever becoming grossly sentimental—an impressive achievement, though readers have come to expect as much from the veteran historian and...
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David Halberstam, Author . Hyperion $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0057-9
Famed journalist and baseball aficionado Halberstam (Summer of '49) presents a short but sweet account of the lives and friendship of four ballplayers from the legendary Boston Red Sox teams of the 1940s: Ted Williams, Dominic DiMaggio, Johnny...
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David Halberstam, Author . Hyperion $24.95 (277p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0154-5
Pulitzer-winning journalist and author Halberstam focuses on Bill Belichick, one of the NFL's most successful coaches, and the game of football as a team sport with rich detail, exacting research and colorful anecdotes. He reveals what fans of...
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David Halberstam, Author . Hyperion $35 (736p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0052-4
Reviewed by James Brady
At the heart of David Halberstam's massive and powerful new history of the Korean War is a bloody, losing battle fought in November 1950 in the snow-covered mountains of North Korea by outnumbered American GIs and...
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David Halberstam, Author William Morrow & Co Inc $16.95 (126p) ISBN 978-0-688-10391-0
In a timely wake-up call to a comatose, overindulged America, Halberstam ( The Best and the Brightest ) digs for root causes of the national failure to adapt to a more Spartan, more competitive age. Living in an ``energy dreamworld'' and addicted to
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David Halberstam, Author Random House Inc $24.95 (426p) ISBN 978-0-679-41562-6
Halberstam (The Children, etc.) has written an excellent book about the game of basketball and its greatest player. Readers familiar with Halberstam's customary insight into American life might think he pulls some punches. But this is an engrossing...
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David Halberstam, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-57028-197-6
Can you name the original three New York Mets' announcers? Who did the play-by-play for the Jets when they won Super Bowl III? Why did Red Barber leave the Dodgers for the Yankees? And did you know that New York had three pro football teams after...
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David Halberstam, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-008934-9
The author of The Powers that Be and The Best and the Brightest tells of the dedication, competition and camaraderie of the athletes who represented the U.S. in single-scull racing events in the 1984 Olympics. ""Here is Halberstam at his best,'' PW...
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David Halberstam, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-04838-9
Powerfully developing his thesis that the complacency and shortsightedness of American workers and their bosses, especially the automakers of Detroit, have led to a decline of industrial know-how so critical that Asian carmakers, particularly the...
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David Halberstam, Author Random House (NY) $29.95 (783p) ISBN 978-0-679-41561-9
This re-creation of the early days of the civil rights movement by Halberstam (The Fifties) is at once intimate and monumental. By focusing on a small group of young African Americans who attended the Reverend James Lawson's workshop for nonviolent...
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David Halberstam, Author, David Halberstam, Read by Simon & Schuster Audio $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-0839-1
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at events that have shaped contemporary politics and political leaders in Washington.
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David Halberstam, Author, Eric Conger, Read by , read by the author. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4013-8411-1
Brown's fifth outing shows no sign of wearing out her welcome as the Southern fried guru of belles past 40 but never past their prime. Browne justifies her one-stop shopping approach to relationships (which combines advice on planning nuptials...
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