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  • The Fifties

    by David Halberstam ...
    This vivid New York Times bestseller about 1950s America from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist is "an engrossing sail across a pivotal decade" ( Time ).Joe McCarthy. Marilyn Monroe. The H-bomb. Ozzie and Harriet. Elvis. Civil rights. It's undeniable: The fifties were a defining decade for America, complete with sweeping cultural change and political upheaval. This decade is... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Best and the Brightest

    by David Halberstam ...
    David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain."A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”—The New York TimesUsing portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Making of a Quagmire

    America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era

    by David Halberstam ...
    Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal supplies crucial background information that was unavailable in the mid-1960s when the book was written. With its numerous ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The Breaks of the Game

    by David Halberstam ...
    "Among the best books ever written on professional basketball," the New York Times bestseller about the grim 1979-eighty season of the Portland Trail Blazers ( The Philadelphia Inquirer ).The Breaks of the Game offers an unparalleled glimpse into the gritty, high-stakes world of professional basketball during the late 1970s, including fascinating profiles of legendary s... ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • The Coldest Winter

    America and the Korean War

    by David Halberstam ...
    From a journalist and bestselling author of The Best and the Brightest, the culmination of forty-five years of writing about America's postwar foreign policy.**"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home." —**The New York TimesDavid Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Powers That Be

    by David Halberstam ...
    A Pulitzer Prize winner's in-depth look at four media-business giants: CBS-TV, Time magazine, the Washington Post , and the Los Angeles Times .In this fascinating New York Times bestseller, the author of The Best and the Brightest, The Fifties, and other acclaimed histories turns his investigative eye to the... ... Read more

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  • The Reckoning

    by David Halberstam ...
    This New York Times –bestselling history is "an immense, and immensely readable, saga of the American and Japanese auto industries" ( Boston Globe ).After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the Japanese auto industry in the decades after World War II. Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam, with his signature p... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Children

    by David Halberstam ...
    "The early days of the civil-rights movement come to life as never before" in this history from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( Wall Street Journal ).The young men and women at the heart of David Halberstam's brilliant and poignant The Children came together through Reverend James Lawson's workshops on nonviolence. Idealistic and determined, they showed unwavering bravery during the sit-ins at ... Read more

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  • Everything They Had

    Sports Writing from David Halberstam

    by David Halberstam ...
    A collection of articles spanning sports writer David Halberstam's celebrated career, covering some of the most compelling athletic figures of our era.David Halberstam was a distinguished journalist and historian of American politics. He was also a sports writer. Everything They Had brings together dazzling portraits of some of the most compelling sports figures of our era, the superstars of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy

    A Biography

    by David Halberstam ...
    "Far and away the best book written about Senator Kennedy," from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author ( The New York Times ).Structured around the 1968 Democratic presidential campaign, The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy offers an in-depth exploration of Robert Kennedy, both as a man and a politician.Kennedy's mass appeal to minority groups, his antiwar stance, and ... Read more

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  • Playing for Keeps

    Michael Jordan and the World He Made

    by David Halberstam ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist looks at the life and times of the Chicago Bulls superstar—"The best Jordan book so far" ( The Washington Post ).New York Times BestsellerOne of sport's biggest superstars, Michael Jordan is more than an internationally renowned athlete. As illuminated through David Halberstam's trademark balance of impeccable research and fascinating... ... Read more

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  • War in a Time of Peace

    Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

    by David Halberstam ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post Cold War America.Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how the decisions of men who served in the Vietnam War, and those who did not, have shaped America's role in global events. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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