David Halberstam

The Fifties is a historical account by David Halberstam about the decade of the 1950s in the United States. Rather than using a straightforward linear narrative, Halberstam separately tracks many of the notable trends and figures of the post-World War II era, starting with Harry Truman's stunning Presidential victory …

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War is a book published after the death of the author David Halberstam. The book, written more than half a century after the Korean War, looks at the war from a different perspective than previously written works on the war by various authors. Other books on the Korean War …

The Breaks of the Game is sports reporting at its finest--basketball's equivalent to Roger Kahn's The Boys of Summer. Join David Halberstam on his yearlong journey with the 1979 Portland Trail Blazers and witness professional basketball from the inside, where front-office egos, big-money contracts, and the colorful …

The Best and the Brightest is an account by journalist David Halberstam of the origins of the Vietnam War published by Random House. The focus of the book is on the erroneous foreign policy crafted by the academics and intellectuals who were in John F. Kennedy's administration, and the disastrous consequences of those …

The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal is a book by David Halberstam.

Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made is a book by David Halberstam.