Remembering David Halberstam

Pulitzer Price winning journalist David Halberstam was killed Monday April 23 in a car crash near San Francisco. He was 73.

During a career that spanned more than half a century, Halberstam became one of journalism's elder statesman, bringing his trademark depth to topics as varied as the Vietnam War and the 1949 baseball pennant race.

Halberstam's 1972 best-seller, "The Best and the Brightest" a critical account of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia and especially Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, established him as one of the most committed journalists of his generation.

"He was the institutional memory of the Vietnam War. I think he understood it better than any other journalist," said Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who is teaching in China.

We figure the best way to remember and honor this great force in journalism and literature is to visit or re-visit his writings. He here list his works.


Halberstam's works:

The Noblest Roman (1961)
The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era (1965)
One Very Hot Day (1967)
The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert F. Kennedy (1969)
Ho (1971)
The Best and the Brightest (1972)
The Powers That Be (1979)
The Breaks of the Game (1981)
The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal (1985)
The Reckoning (1986)
Summer of '49 (1989)
The Next Century (1991)
The Fifties (1993)
October 1964 (1994)
The Children (1999)
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made (1999)
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals (2001)
Firehouse (2002)
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship (2003)
Bill Belichick: The Education of a Coach (2005)
The Coldest Winter (due in fall 2007)

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