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The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship 79 reviews
David Halberstam
Hyperion, 2004
Baseball, Friendship and Life
+ A Remarkable Bond Like No Other
+ Insight into a different era...
This brief but excellent book covers a lot of ground. It is a fine baseball book that follows the lives of its four main characters from their humble roots through their shared baseball careers and into their post baseball lives. Along the way, the reader learns a lot about how baseball worked ...
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The Gigantic Book of Fishing Stories 5 reviews
Skyhorse Publishing, 2007
The indispensable fishing anthology
+ Huge Book! - Great Stories
+ Amazing Book
+ Talk about "gigantic"!
+ A great collection!
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The Next Century1 review
David Halberstam
Random House Value Publishing, 1993
History punishes those who come late to it
Was in Central Florida visiting my folks recently and came across this David Halberstam work while browsing in a used book store. Like most of mainstream America I hold David Halberstam in high esteem but must confess that somehow, "The Next Century," never hit my reading radar screen. ...
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Summer of '49 (P.S.)49 reviews
David Halberstam
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Excellently Done
+ A pleasant distraction.
+ Personality above all
+ The Good Old Days
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Education of a Coach, The 54 reviews
David Halberstam
Hyperion, 2006
Great Insight into a Very Private Man
+ enlightening insight into a man many love to hate
I read this book several years ago, and reread it recently after reflecting on the "Spygate" drama of the past year. I found the book very insightful the second time around. David Halberstam was an incrediably gifted writer who was able to truly get into the mind of his subjects, and this book is a ...
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War126 reviews
David Halberstam
Hyperion, 2007
Halberstam's Last Masterpiece
+ A Good Solid Story of the Causes of the Korean war & Fall of MacArthur
+ A Powerful Indictment of MacArthur
+ The Coldest Winter
+ One of a kind
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The Best and the Brightest58 reviews
David Halberstam
Ballantine Books, 1993
History repeating itself
+ The Best and the Brightest
+ The people behind the war
+ Poor deluded SOBs
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The Fifties63 reviews
David Halberstam
Ballantine Books, 1994
Mr. Halberstam's Best Book, A very Colorful Survey.
+ An Encyclopedic Look at the Fifties
+ The Fifties
Honestly, this book should be required reading for all of our high school students. It is far better than any traditional school texts we had covering this era. "The Fifties," is a finely written history of the decade that the author considers "seminal in determining what our nation is today."
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The Children29 reviews
David Halberstam
Ballantine Books, 1999
An amazing work
+ The People Who Made "The Movement"
+ Every School kid should read this book!
+ Great Audio Book!
+ Fast Pace Read
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The Powers That Be13 reviews
David Halberstam
University of Illinois Press, 2000
Amazing Book--Must Reading for All
+ David Halberstam strikes again!
+ The Power That Was
+ Revealing Look behind the Scenes
+ Read if you DARE
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Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made66 reviews
David Halberstam
Broadway, 2000
Best Jordan/Bulls book ever by a legendary writer
+ Great Book!
+ More Great Jordan Info
This book not only offers the most incisive portrait of Jordan, the Bulls championship years, and the NBA of that era, but is also wonderful Halberstam, who tells the story with an epic sweep. Simply a beautiful work from cover to cover.
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The Best American Sports Writing of the Century17 reviews
Houghton Mifflin, 1999
Outstanding collection but a small part of what is out there
+ Great Read!
+ I Didn't Think I Was A Sports Fan Till I Picked Up This Book
+ Some Good, Some Better, Some Best
+ excellent collection
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War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals83 reviews
David Halberstam
Scribner, 2002
Halberstam does it again
+ A portrait of the 1990s from the viewpoint of the 1990s?
+ Wars abound
+ cogent, critical analysis of Presidents and their foreign policies
+ Infomative and Engaging
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Sports on New York Radio6 reviews
David Halberstam
McGraw-Hill, 1999
Encyclopedic Masterpiece of Sports Broadcasting
+ A Thorough History on A Fascinating Subject
+ Outstanding Reference Guide
+ Very Nostalgic and Enjoyable
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A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti13 reviews
Algonquin Books, 1998
A Glorious Book About A Glorious Game
+ The Soul of Baseball at It's Intellectual Best
+ Baseball is a metaphor for life of Bart Giamatti
+ just loved this book...
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October 196455 reviews
David Halberstam
Ballantine Books, 1995
An Epochal World Series
+ The End of an Era and the Dawn of a New Age in Baseball
+ An absolute must-read for any baseball person!
+ This Is More Than A Sports Book
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Ho7 reviews
David Halberstam
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007
Great Suppliers, problems with Amazon Web Page shipping
+ A Summary Biography
+ Know thy enemy
+ An insightful biography
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The Reckoning20 reviews
David Halberstam
Avon Books (P), 1994
ten stars
+ Cars, egos, leadership, family, unions, and rises and falls ...
+ A wonderful book
+ Relevant even today
+ Execellent Book.
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The Making of A Quagmire: America and Vietnam5 reviews
David Halberstam
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1987
required reading
+ What Should Be Learned From History
+ Outstanding book; this is the wrong edition to buy
+ Field Correspondent Sets the Record Straight
+ Thought Provocative
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The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal18 reviews
David Halberstam
Ballantine Books, 1996
Another great book from David Halberstam
+ Great writing, sad story
+ A way to see into rowing and the people who do it
+ top 2 rowing books ever
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