David Halberstam (1934–2007)
Autor(a) de The Best and the Brightest
About the Author
David Halberstam was born on April 10, 1934 in New York City and later attended Harvard University. After graduating in 1955, Halberstam worked at a small daily newspaper until he attained a position at the Nashville Tennessean. Halberstam has written over 20 books including The Children, a written mostrar mais account of his coverage of the Civil Rights Movement; The Best and Brightest, which was a bestseller; and The Game and October, 1964, both detailing his fascination of sports. Halberstam also won a Pulitzer Prize for his reports on the Vietnam War while working for the New York Times. He was killed in a car crash on April 23, 2007 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Disambiguation Notice:
(eng) Do not combine David Halberstam and David J. Halberstam. They are different authors.
Image credit: David Halberstam attend The 5th Annual POETRY & THE CREATIVE MIND at Alice Tully Hall on April 11, 2007 in New York City
Obras por David Halberstam
The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal (1985) 238 exemplares
The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era (1964) — Autor — 151 exemplares
The Noblest Roman 5 exemplares
David Halberstam on Sports: Summer of '49, October 1964, The Amateurs, Playing for Keeps (2018) 2 exemplares
Japan society 1 exemplar
Vietnam oder wird der Dschungel entlaubt? 1 exemplar
最寒冷的冬天 1 exemplar
The Making of a Quagmire - An Uncompromising Account of Our Precarious Commitment in Viet Nam 1 exemplar
Michael Jordan: jouer pour la prosperite 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contribuidor — 422 exemplares
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Contribuidor — 380 exemplares
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 1: American Journalism 1941-1963 (2003) — Contribuidor — 231 exemplares
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Contribuidor — 210 exemplares
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm (2001) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 126 exemplares
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Contribuidor — 89 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1934-04-10
- Data de falecimento
- 2007-04-23
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- United States of America
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Menlo Park, California, USA
- Causa da morte
- car accident
- Locais de residência
- Yonkers, New York, USA
Winsted, Connecticut, USA
Bronx, New York, USA - Educação
- Harvard College (AB|1955)
- Ocupações
- news journalist
sports journalist
war reporter - Organizações
- The Tennesseean
The New York Times - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Pulitzer Prize
Quill Award
Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award (1997)
Norman Mailer Prize (2009) - Nota de desambiguação
- Do not combine David Halberstam and David J. Halberstam. They are different authors.
Membros
Críticas
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World That… por David Halberstam
Awesome book. Don't remember where I got it or when I read it, but I know it is one of my favorite MJ books that I will re-read someday. My love for this book encouraged me to purchase another book by Halberstam about baseball that I have yet to read.
Though a bit dated, this is an excellent dissection of the rise of the Japanese auto industry and the struggles of their American counterparts.
Halberstam’s 2007 history of the Korean War is excellent. He balanced political and military views of the war and chose the political and military battles to discuss with the adeptness of the experienced Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and historian that he was. The first third of the book is political with mini-biographies of McArthur, Truman, Acheson, Mao, Kennan, Kim Il Sung, Syngman Rhee, Ridgway, and others. If you’re eager to read about the war itself, this may slow you down, but Halberstam used the novelistic technique of starting the book with the disastrous battle at Unsan out of temporal sequence to draw you in.
Besides whatever intrinsic value it has, reading this history is an antidote to the current blather about the uniqueness of our political divisiveness, the politicization of the media, and the megalomania of our leaders. Here the reader can read about the posturings of Douglas McArthur, his support from Henry Luce and Time magazine, and the pervasive lobbying power of the Nationalist Chinese and Chiang Kai-shek.… (mais)
Besides whatever intrinsic value it has, reading this history is an antidote to the current blather about the uniqueness of our political divisiveness, the politicization of the media, and the megalomania of our leaders. Here the reader can read about the posturings of Douglas McArthur, his support from Henry Luce and Time magazine, and the pervasive lobbying power of the Nationalist Chinese and Chiang Kai-shek.… (mais)
Listas
1960s (1)
New York Yankees (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 42
- Also by
- 20
- Membros
- 14,366
- Popularidade
- #1,597
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 236
- ISBN
- 238
- Línguas
- 10
- Marcado como favorito
- 44
- Pedras de toque
- 292
