Books written by David Halberstam

Contract Killer

Contract Killer
The Children

... 503, 550,551, 555,556 Powell, Adam Clayton, 369 Powell, Allison (see Schueler, Allison Powell) Powell, Antonia, 668 Powell, April (see Willingham, April Powell) Powell, Daniel, 590, 599, 661, 666-67 Powell, Norma, 376-82, 384,
The Fifties

451. “THE Los ALAMos LABoratoRY: Davis, Lawrence and Oppenheimer, p. 316. while A Room Full of PROMINENT: Stern, p. 447. FRIENDs HEARD THEIR YouNG DAUGHTER: Stern, p. 378. It was one of THE Most compleTE: Coffey, Iron Eagle, p. 165.
David Halberstam on Sports: Summer of ’49, October 1964, The Amateurs, Playing for Keeps

With his usual impeccable research and gripping storytelling, Halberstam covers the whole court, from the transformative rivalry of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson to the invention of ESPN to Spike Lee’s Nike commercials to every ...
Still Pitching: Musings from the Mound and the Microphone

An example: in the early sixties, I hooked up in a game with Robin Roberts, who won 286 games and was elected to the Hall of Fame. He had his best years with the Phillies, and he played for Michigan State, ...
Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam

The announcers were speaking in Spanish, and with all due respect to John Madden and Pat Summerall, it was a pleasant change. Actually, I can easily imagine that when Madden watches at home, he, too, turns down the sound at a game like ...
October 1964

In spring training there was an incident when he was asked to pose with Rogers Hornsby, a great hitter but a notoriously churlish man from another age, who had frequently demeaned Maris during his home-run chase.
Summer of '49

... thinking of new careers. When he woke up in the late morning, he could never remember any of them. It was the worst time in his life. Only one message brought any kind of relief. Rogers Hornsby, the great hitter from ...
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

The day of the draft, Ron Coley, who had worked for a time as a volunteer assistant at Laney High School back in Wilmington, called James Jordan. “Move over Oscar Robertson and Jerry West,” Coley had told Michael's father, invoking the ...
Oct-64

An acclaimed chronicle of the World Series in a seminal year finds the Yankees and Cardinals facing off as America confronts its feelings about race. From the author of Summer of '49. Reprint.
The Best and the Brightest

One day in early 1961 Russell Baker , then a Hill reporter for the New York Times , who knew Johnson well , had been coming out of the Senate when he was literally grabbed by Johnson ( “ You , I've been looking for you ” ) and pulled ...
The Best and the Brightest

Highlights the political and military figures who rose to prominence in the sixties and examines their role in shaping domestic and foreign policies, focusing on American involvement in Vietnam
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

Clinton, at a time when the culture was changing and the economic and political power of women was dramatically surging, became the perfect target for the progenitors of talk radio, most notably Rush Limbaugh, who clearly thought of ...
The Reckoning

productivity teams visiting America mentioned Deming to their hosts, the Americans rarely knew his name. The few who did seemed to regard him as some kind of crank. To the Japanese that was particularly puzzling, for when a Japanese ...
The Fifties

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The section on Elvis Presley is based on a number of books, including biographies by Albert Goldman; Elaine Dundy; Steve Dunleavy; Dee Presley, Rich Stanley, and David Stanley; Stanley Booth; Kevin Quain; Larry Geller ...
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

wanted them reelected in 1966 and threw all kinds of favors at them; more than thirty post offices in Resnick's district, Berger remembered, were delivered by the White House. There is no such thing as a free lunch or a free post office ...
The Best and the Brightest

Then David Riesman, the Harvard sociologist, quietly warned against the dangers implicit in much of what Rostow had suggested (the Rostow idea that the American perspective of the world had not kept pace with American power in it and ...
The Powers That Be

... 945 Meyer, Mary Pinchot, 527 Mickelson, Sig, 197,205, 212-13, 221, 222,318,326,359,476-77, 570, 572 and Cronkite, 340-42, 576 Midwest Republican Conference Agnew at, 831-33 Miller, Mrs. Dale, 232 Miller, Loye, 666 Milwaukee Journal, ...
Ho

In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam provides a window into traditions and culture that influenced the American war in Vietnam, while highlighting the importance of nationalism in ...
The Education of a Coach

Bill Belichick's thirty-one years in the NFL have been marked by amazing success--most recently with the New England Patriots. In this groundbreaking book, David Halberstam explores the nuances of both the game and the man behind it.