<div>This #1 bestselling baseball classic of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is &ldquo;dazzling . . . heart-stopping . . . A celebration of a vanished heroic age&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). The summer of 1949: It was baseball&rsquo;s Golden Age and the year Joe DiMaggio&rsquo;s New York Yankees were locked in a soon-to-be classic battle with Ted Williams&rsquo;s Boston Red Sox for the American League pennant. As postwar America looked for a unifying moment, the greatest players in baseball history brought their rivalry to the field, captivating the American public through the heart-pounding final moments of the season. This expansive story captures an era, incorporating profiles of the players and their families, fans, broadcasters, baseball executives, and sportswriters. Riveting in its blend of powerful detail and exhilarating narrative, The Summer of &rsquo;49 is Pulitzer Prize winner David Halberstam&rsquo;s engrossing look at not only a sports rivalry, but a time when America&rsquo;s very identity was wrapped up in its beloved national game. This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.</div>

Summer of '49

<div>This vivid New York Times bestseller about 1950s America from a Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning journalist is &ldquo;an engrossing sail across a pivotal decade&rdquo; (Time). Joe McCarthy. Marilyn Monroe. The H-bomb. Ozzie and Harriet. Elvis. Civil rights. It&rsquo;s undeniable: The fifties were a defining decade for America, complete with sweeping cultural change and political upheaval. This decade is also the focus of David Halberstam&rsquo;s triumphant The Fifties, which stands as an enduring classic and was an instant New York Times bestseller upon its publication. More than a survey of the decade, it is a masterfully woven examination of far-reaching change, from the unexpected popularity of Holiday Inn to the marketing savvy behind McDonald&rsquo;s expansion. A meditation on the staggering influence of image and rhetoric, The Fifties is vintage Halberstam, who was hailed by the Denver Post as &ldquo;a lively, graceful writer who makes you . . . understand how much of our time was born in those years.&rdquo; This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.</div>

The Fifties

<div>&ldquo;Far and away the best book written about Senator Kennedy&rdquo; from the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;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&rsquo;s mass appeal to minority groups, his antiwar stance, and his support from Catholics made him unlike any other politician of his stature in the late 1960s. Acclaimed journalist David Halberstam dives into Kennedy&rsquo;s career, covering his work as US attorney general and campaign manager for his brother John, his run for a New York state senate seat, and his candidacy in the 1968 Democratic presidential primary. Through this crucial period, he charts Kennedy&rsquo;s evolution as one of the nation&rsquo;s most clear-headed progressives, ultimately revealing a man who&mdash;even now&mdash;personifies the shift toward a more equal America. This ebook features an illustrated biography of David Halberstam including rare images from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy

<div>The &ldquo;compelling&rdquo; New York Times bestseller by the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning journalist, capturing the 1964 World Series between the Yankees and Cardinals (Newsweek). David Halberstam, an avid sports writer with an investigative reporter&rsquo;s tenacity, superbly details the end of the fifteen-year reign of the New York Yankees in October 1964. That October found the Yankees going head-to-head with the St. Louis Cardinals for the World Series pennant. Expertly weaving the narrative threads of both teams&rsquo; seasons, Halberstam brings the major personalities on the field&mdash;from switch-hitter Mickey Mantle to pitcher Bob Gibson&mdash;to life. Using the teams&rsquo; subcultures, Halberstam also analyzes the cultural shifts of the sixties. The result is a unique blend of sports writing and cultural history as engrossing as it is insightful. This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.</div>

October 1964

<div>From the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of The Fifties: An &ldquo;intimate and monumental&rdquo; account of the people at the core of the civil rights movement (Publishers Weekly). The young men and women at the heart of David Halberstam&rsquo;s brilliant and poignant The Children came together through Reverend James Lawson&rsquo;s workshops on nonviolence. Idealistic and determined, they showed unwavering bravery during the sit-ins at the Nashville lunch counters and on the Freedom Rides across the South&mdash;all chronicled here with Halberstam&rsquo;s characteristic clarity and insight. The Children exhibits the incredible strength of generations of black Americans, who sacrificed greatly to improve the world for their children. Following Diane Nash, John Lewis, Gloria Johnson, Bernard Lafayette, Marion Barry, Curtis Murphy, James Bevel, and Rodney Powell, among others, The Children is rooted in Halberstam&rsquo;s coverage of the civil rights movement for Nashville&rsquo;s Tennessean. A New York Times Notable Book, this volume garnered extraordinary acclaim for David Halberstam, the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Best and the Brightest. Upon its publication, the Philadelphia Inquirer called it &ldquo;utterly absorbing . . . The civil rights movement already has produced superb works of history, books such as David J. Garrow&rsquo;s Bearing the Cross and Taylor Branch&rsquo;s recently published Pillar of Fire. . . . Halberstam adds another with The Children.&rdquo; This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.</div>

The Children

<div>The Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning journalist delivers &ldquo;[a] sobering account of the struggle for world economic supremacy&rdquo; in this New York Times bestseller (Library Journal). What can we learn from the events of twentieth century? With the effects of the Cold War still evident in the global economy and the lives of everyday Americans, master journalist and historian David Halberstam sets out to answer this question. Halberstam&rsquo;s perceptive The Next Century looks to the future by examining the past. From the rise of the Japanese economy to the startling changes that reshaped the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Halberstam argues that the American economy&rsquo;s survival depends on the rededication and continued education of the American worker. As pertinent in today&rsquo;s economy as it was when first published in 1991, The Next Century is a timeless call to arms, reminding us that we must continually better ourselves in order to compete on the world stage. This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.</div>

The Next Century

<div>A Pulitzer Prize winner&rsquo;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 rise of the American media in the twentieth century. Focusing on the successes and failures of CBS Television, Time magazine, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, David Halberstam paints a portrait of the era when large, powerful mainstream media sources emerged as a force, showing how they shifted from simply reporting the news to becoming a part of it. By examining landmark events such as Franklin D. Roosevelt&rsquo;s masterful use of the radio and the unprecedented coverage of the Watergate break-in, Halberstam demonstrates how print and broadcast media as a whole became a player in society and helped shape public policy. Drawn from hundreds of exhaustive interviews with insiders at each company, and hailed by the Seattle Times as &ldquo;a monumental X-ray study of power,&rdquo; The Powers That Be reveals the tugs-of-war between political ambition and the quest for truth in a page-turning read. This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.</div>

The Powers That Be

<div>New York Times Bestseller: &ldquo;A historical overview of the auto industry in the United States and Japan [and] the gradual decline of U.S. manufacturing&rdquo; (Library Journal). 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. David Halberstam, with his signature precision and absorbing narrative style, traces this power shift by delving into the boardrooms and onto the factory floors of the America&rsquo;s Ford Motor Company and Japan&rsquo;s Nissan. Different in every way&mdash;from their reactions to labor problems to their philosophies and leadership styles&mdash;the two companies stand as singular testaments to the challenges brought by the rise of the global economy. From the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of The Fifties and The Coldest Winter, and filled with intriguing vignettes about Henry Ford, Lee Iacocca, and other visionary industrial leaders, The Reckoning remains a powerful and enlightening story about manufacturing in the modern age, and how America fell woefully behind. This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.</div>

The Reckoning

<div>The Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning journalist looks at the life and times of the Chicago Bulls superstar&mdash; &ldquo;The best Jordan book so far&rdquo; (The Washington Post). One of sport&rsquo;s biggest superstars, Michael Jordan is more than an internationally renowned athlete. As illuminated through David Halberstam&rsquo;s trademark balance of impeccable research and fascinating storytelling, Jordan symbolizes the apex of the National Basketball Association&rsquo;s coming of age. Long before multimillion-dollar signings and lucrative endorsements, NBA players worked in relative obscurity, with most games woefully unattended and rarely broadcast on television. Then came Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, Jordan&rsquo;s two great predecessors, and the game&rsquo;s status changed. The new era capitalized on Jordan&rsquo;s talent, will power, and unrivaled competiveness. In Playing for Keeps, Halberstam is at his investigative best, delving into Jordan&rsquo;s expansive world of teammates and coaches. The result is a gripping story of the athlete and media powerhouse who changed a game forever. This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.</div>

Playing for Keeps

<div>In &ldquo;one of the best books ever written about a sport,&rdquo; Halberstam chronicles the story of four amateur US rowers and their 1984 Olympic dream (Newsweek). In 1984, rowing was a sport continually relegated to the margins, far from the spotlights attracted by other Olympic events. That year, four men went head-to-head for the right to compete for gold as the United States&rsquo; single sculler, an honor that would lead not to lucrative endorsement deals, but to the fleeting glory of the Olympic Games, and the satisfaction of ranking supreme among their competitive community of oarsmen. In pursuit of that goal, the rowers pushed through crippling pain, delaying personal relationships and careers, all for the rush of winning. Determined to understand these athletes of a seemingly bygone era, Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning journalist and author David Halberstam chronicles their bravery and obsession, delivering a dramatic human story, buzzing with adrenaline, about the lengths to which athletes will go to prove their mettle and compete on the highest level. This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.</div>

The Amateurs

<div>Four New York Times bestsellers by a &ldquo;remarkable&rdquo; Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning journalist capture and celebrate America&rsquo;s passion for sports (The Seattle Times). Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning journalist David Halberstam, preeminent chronicler of the American experience, focuses his meticulous narrative gifts on some of Major League Baseball&rsquo;s most iconic moments, training for the Olympics, and a remarkable profile of hoops legend Michael Jordan. Summer of &rsquo;49: In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Halberstam brings to stirring life the unforgettable season that cemented baseball as America&rsquo;s pastime. A nation in transition is gripped by a pennant race for the ages: the Boston Red Sox, led by Ted Williams&rsquo;s unearthly bat skills, versus the New York Yankees and Joe DiMaggio&rsquo;s legendary heroics. Every hit on and off the field crackles across the page &ldquo;in such an enjoyable, interesting, and informative manner that a reader needn&rsquo;t be a baseball fan to appreciate the book&rdquo; (Library Journal). October 1964: The 1964 World Series pitted the established Yankees against the upstart St. Louis Cardinals in an epic, seven-game seesaw battle that seemed to reflect the tensions of a nation in turmoil. The barnburner included a cast of legends&mdash;Mantle, Maris, Ford, Gibson, Brock&mdash;and enough game-changing plays to last a lifetime. Halberstam captures every moment with &ldquo;a fluidity of writing that make[s] the reading almost effortless. . . . Absorbing&rdquo; (San Francisco Chronicle). The Amateurs: This inspirational bestseller focuses Halberstam&rsquo;s brilliant reportage on the travails and triumphs of Olympic rowing. Introducing us to a cast of highly driven athletes at the 1984 single sculls trials in Princeton, Halberstam delves deep into their struggles, motivations, and failures&mdash;but in the end only one will represent the United States at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Informative and compelling, Halberstam &ldquo;maintains the suspense to the very last stroke&rdquo; (Sports Illustrated). Playing for Keeps: A wildly entertaining and revealing portrait of global icon Michael Jordan and the rise of the NBA. With his usual impeccable research and gripping storytelling, Halberstam covers the whole court, from the transformative rivalry of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson to the invention of ESPN to Spike Lee&rsquo;s Nike commercials to every unforgettable playoff game that built Jordan&rsquo;s legend. &ldquo;Filled with salty, informed hoops talk&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly), this &ldquo;remarkable book . . . [is] a must-read for basketball fans, admirers of Jordan, and anyone who seeks to understand sports in America today&rdquo; (Bill Bradley).</div>

David Halberstam

Books By David Halberstam (11 Books)