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	Author David Halberstam dies at 73 - Boston.com
		David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the Washington press corps, the Vietnam War generation and baseball, was killed in a car crash early Monday, a coroner said.
		Halberstam, of New York, was a passenger in a car that was broadsided by another vehicle in Menlo Park, south of San Francisco, San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said.
		Halberstam spoke Saturday at a UC Berkeley-sponsored event on the craft of journalism and what it means to turn reporting into a work of history.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2007/04/23/author_david_halberstam_dies_at_73 (611 words)

	David Halberstam - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		David Halberstam (born April 10, 1934), American journalist and author, was born in New York City.
		Halberstam graduated from Harvard University with a degree in journalism in 1955 and started his career writing for the Daily Times Leader in West Point, Mississippi.
		In the mid 1960s, Halberstam covered the Vietnam War for the New York Times, where his reporting caused U.S. president John F. Kennedy to request he be transferred to another bureau.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /david_halberstam.htm (469 words)

	What Books: The Teammates by David Halberstam
		Halberstam portrays the notoriously moody and difficult Williams as a complex man: driven by a rough childhood and a fiercely competitive nature to become perhaps the greatest pure hitter of all time while also being a magnetic personality and loving friend.
		Halberstam, author of Summer of '49 and October 1964 is the ideal writer to tell two equally intriguing stories, both rich in America's pastime.
		David Halberstam, the bestselling author of the baseball classic Summer of '49, has followed the members of the 1949 championship Boston Red Sox team for years, especially Williams, Doerr, DiMaggio, and Pesky.
	www.whatbooks.com /2003/teammates.php (571 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - David Halberstam
		&#9;Halberstam's next journalistic epic, soon to be published, will examine ethnic unrest and war in Bosnia, and America's ambivalent attitudes toward conflicts in that region.
		&#9;David Halberstam is also one of American's leading sportswriters.
		Halberstam is the first to present so complete a picture and offer such fresh insights." Halberstam is also editor of the anthology, "Best American Sports Writing of the Century" (1999).
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/halberstamdavid.html (442 words)

	Homerunweb -- Review of "Summer of '49"
		But probably the best reasons for Halberstam to choose 1949 were, first, that it was a terrific, dramatic pennant race between two hated rivals; and, second, perhaps most importantly, as he explains in the author's note, Halberstam was fifteen years old that summer and a devoted Yankee fan.
		Halberstam traces the endeavors of the Red Sox and Yankees for an entire year, from the end of the 1948 season through 1949.
		Halberstam introduces us to every one of them, the drinkers, womanizers, country boys, city boys, the marginal players for whom 1949 will be their only season of glory.
	www.homerunweb.com /summerof49.html (1479 words)

	Obituary: David Halberstam \| Media \| The Guardian
		David Halberstam, who has died aged 73 in a car crash in California, was one of the most talented, influential and prolific of the American journalists who came of age professionally in the 1960s.
		David Halberstam was the son of a surgeon and a teacher.
		Halberstam and his friends questioned and criticised American policy and military conduct in Vietnam, not out of a lack of patriotism, but out of their conviction that the US must conduct itself according to the highest possible standards.
	www.guardian.co.uk /media/2007/apr/25/guardianobituaries.pressandpublishing (921 words)

	Media: David Halberstam, R.I.P.
		David Halberstam, R.I.P. We, like anyone who has even a passing interest in the world of journalism, deeply lamented the passing of David Halberstam, who was killed in a car crash yesterday in Menlo Park, Calif. He was 73 years old.
		Halberstam was so good that the sports books he wrote — ones his wife called "entertainment" and "his way to take a break" — are legendary even though they weren't his singular focus.
		Halberstam actually ennobled his subjects by choosing them as worthy of profiling; the fact that he decided to write about them, in a way, proved their public merit.
	deadspin.com /sports/media/david-halberstam-rip-254788.php (2424 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		David Halberstam: I think that anybody who is an on-the-ground witness to Vietnam, a witness to the limits of American power, limits set by indigenous forces, ends up being tempered in his judgments, and wary of using military force when it might end up creating a long-term hostile overtow.
		David Halberstam: I think it's difficult to compare brain power from one administration to another 40 years ago, especially since the seemingly sterling quality of the Kennedy people, who were so intellectually dazzling, did not do us a lot of good.
		David Halberstam: Even as I answer this, I wish there were some compelling voice with a great knowledge of the region, like George Kennon and his knowledge of Russia, so that we could all get a badly needed injection of whys -- expertise into the debate.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /zforum/03/sp_nation_halberstam030403.htm (3733 words)

	salon :: :: books :: int :: Why America napped, By Suzy Hansen :: Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		David Halberstam talks about the prosperity of the '90s, when America thought it could afford to ignore the world -- and what we'll do now that we've woken up.
		As Halberstam explains, President Clinton and the rest of country aggressively embraced, with a sigh of relief, the end of the Cold War era and the promise of a new peacetime economy.
		Salon spoke to Halberstam from his home in New York about the news networks' culpability in downplaying America's foreign involvements, how Americans might respond to the possibility of a "long twilight struggle" and his confidence in democracy in the face of war.
	dir.salon.com /books/int/2001/10/01/halberstam/index.html (513 words)

	Teammates by David Halberstam - read review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Halberstam's sensitive rendering of their abiding relationship, however, we see them as men who have always recognized and preserved the most important of human values, and in that respect they continue to serve as heroes and exemplars to fans of baseball throughout the country.
		Halberstam's trilogy of books on power in America, The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be and The Reckoning have won innumerable awards and is said to have helped define the latter part of this century more than any journalistic works.
		Halberstam is the recipient of 14 honorary degrees and was the George Mason University Heritage Chair in Writing in 1994-95.
	mostlyfiction.com /adventure/halberstam.htm (1385 words)

	David Halberstam
		Experienced, eloquent, and observant (his dim view of Patrick Ewing being a notable exception), David Halberstam was a journalistic jack-of-all-trades who is best remembered for his stinging indictment of Vietnam warrior Robert McNamara, JFK and LBJ's secretary of defense, in the classic The Best and the Brightest.
		Halberstam's dense but illuminating The Fifties is an informative and tightly written study on the Eisenhower era.
		Halberstam follows a handful of scullers, each practicing hours on end with no financial backing and little moral support, in their quest to make the 1984 Olympic squad.
	www.kevincmurphy.com /halberstam.html (277 words)

	Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam killed in car crash
		David Halberstam, a journalist who produced a steady stream of well-regarded books on topics as diverse as the Vietnam war, the civil rights movement and sports, died as he lived: On his way to an interview.
		Halberstam's other books include "The Powers That Be," a 1979 undressing of the titans of the news media; "The Fifties," his 1993 chronicle about the decade before the war; "The Reckoning," about the U.S. auto industry; and "The Children," a 1999 narrative about the civil rights movement.
		Halberstam told journalists during a conference last year in Tennessee that government criticism of news reporters in Iraq reminded him of the way he was treated while covering the war in Vietnam.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/24/state/n014538D40.DTL (1072 words)

	The Daily Mississippian - Journalist calls War in Iraq 'miscalculation' on U.S. part (Site not responding. Last check: )
		David Halberstam, best-selling author, speaks the similarties between the War in Iraq and Vietnam.
		Halberstam, a Pulitzer-Prize winner for his coverage in Vietnam, said he was leery about comparing the conflict in Vietnam to the current War in Iraq because he didn't "need to add controversy" to his life.
		Halberstam's lecture, titled "Between War and Peace," focused on what he saw as intelligence flaws in the war, the misuse of pre-emptive force and the concurrent War on Terrorism.
	www.thedmonline.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2004/04/21/4086354a9181d (878 words)

	Mass Humanities: David Halberstam Interview
		DAVID HALBERSTAM, journalist, historian, and biographer, is one of this country’s most distinguished social and political commentators.
		Halberstam has also written on the role of the media in the shaping of American politics (The Powers That Be) ; the American economy’s relationship with the automobile industry (The Reckoning) ; and the Civil Rights Movement (Freedom Riders), as well as sports and other non-political topics.
		Halberstam will be the keynote speaker at the Foundation’s 30th Anniversary symposium and benefit dinner, “U.S. Presidents in Perspective: The Shifting Fortunes of Presidential Reputations,” on November 20, 2004 at Boston College.
	www.mfh.org /newsandevents/newsletter/MassHumanities/Fall2004/interview.html (3220 words)

	ESPN - Pulitzer Prize winner Halberstam killed in car crash - ESPN
		Halberstam was working on a new book, "The Game," about the 1958 NFL championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants, often called the greatest game ever played, she said.
		Halberstam was born April 10, 1934, in New York City to a surgeon father and teacher mother.
		Halberstam's reporting from Vietnam was a major irritant to the Kennedy Administration, which had tried unsuccessfully to pressure the Times to transfer him from the war zone.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/news/story?id=2847054 (1643 words)

	Author David Halberstam killed in Menlo Park crash
		Halberstam, 73, died in a car wreck just a few miles away from a long-sought interview for a book he was planning about a legendary 1958 football game.
		Halberstam, of New York, was in the passenger seat of a car that was broadsided as it was making a left turn off the westbound Bayfront Expressway, which connects to the Dumbarton Bridge, onto Willow Road about 10:35 a.m., authorities said.
		Halberstam had been in the Bay Area to deliver a speech at UC Berkeley about what it means to turn reporting into a work of history, said Orville Schell, the dean at Berkeley's graduate school of journalism.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/23/BAGGPPE0TL3.DTL (1131 words)

	The Daily Mississippian - Pulitzer-prize winner to talk on war, peace (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Halberstam's lecture will consist of a commentary on international relations and will be followed by a question and answer session.
		Halberstam won the Pulitzer Prize at the age 30 for his aggressive reporting in the early Vietnam War, when he served as a war correspondent.
		Halberstam has authored books and articles commenting on topics from the Kennedy and Johnson eras to the Vietnam War ("The Best and the Brightest") to the mass media ("The Powers that Be") to professional sports ("Playing for Keeps").
	www.thedmonline.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2004/04/20/408515b8e87a5 (472 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Coldest Winter, by David Halberstam, Hardcover
		Halberstam conducted with veterans: the privates, sergeants and lieutenants who slogged their way up and down the Korean peninsula at the mercy of delusional generals and ignorant politicians.
		Halberstam writes that funds to the military were so curtailed as the war began that soldiers at Fort Lewis were ordered to use only two sheets of toilet paper when they did their business in the latrines.
		At the heart of David Halberstam's massive and powerful new history of the Korean War is a bloody, losing battle fought in November 1950 in the snow-covered mountains of North Korea by outnumbered American GIs and Marines against the Chinese Communist Army.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /Coldest-Winter/David-Halberstam/e/9781401300524?tabname=custreview (5595 words)

	David Halberstam (1934-2007). - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
		David Halberstam (1934-2007)Portrait of the prize-winning reporter as an engorged ego.
		Halberstam also crumpled and handed back to Gelb the assignment sheet containing the details for the overnight trip he had written.
		They always said what Halberstam needed was a good editor, his sentences ran on and on, he piled phrase upon phrase and clause upon clause, he used commas the way other men used periods.
	www.slate.com /id/2164960 (1422 words)

	Postscript: David Halberstam: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker
		David Halberstam, who died in a car accident on April 23rd, at the age of seventy-three, was a product of the Cold War, a self-described “square from the fifties”; who went off to cover the obscure conflict in Southeast Asia believing that it was a necessary front in a global struggle.
		Halberstam’s wartime work will last not just because of its quality and its importance but because it established a new mode of journalism, one with which Americans are now so familiar that it’s difficult to remember that someone had to invent it.
		Halberstam was critical of some of the reporting on Iraq, especially during the prewar period and the invasion.
	www.newyorker.com /talk/2007/05/07/070507ta_talk_packer (1133 words)

	Journalist David Halberstam killed in car crash - CNN.com
		Halberstam was a passenger in a car that was broadsided by another vehicle in Menlo Park, California, near San Francisco, the San Mateo County coroner's office said Monday.
		David Halberstam was born April 10, 1934, in New York City.
		Halberstam "stayed the course and he kept the faith in the belief in the people's right to know," the AP's George Esper, who spent 10 years in Vietnam, told the wire service.
	www.cnn.com /2007/SHOWBIZ/books/04/24/obit.halberstam/index.html (960 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - David Halberstam
		Halberstam: The first time I came back, I'd been out of the country for about three and a half years in the Congo and in Vietnam, and I hadn't seen the changes in baseball.
		Halberstam: Well, sitting there, working at the firehouse and interviewing people in those days, and hearing as we did—the timing was exact—hearing about the Enron scandal, which was the exact opposite...
		Halberstam: It shows a much simpler America, but all kinds of things that begin to come to fruition in the rather more turbulent sixties are seeded in the fifties and grow from there, whether it's the Vietnam War, the women's movement, with contraception, or the coming of television, which speeds up our life.
	www.powells.com /authors/halberstam.html (4294 words)

	The Clarion-Ledger: Sports
		DAVID Halberstam, one of the most splendid reporters and writers of our time, will visit Jackson next week to help honor two of Mississippi's best and brightest, Boo Ferriss and William Winter.
		Years and years later, Halberstam met Ferriss when he was doing the reporting for the Summer of '49, another must-read baseball book about the pennant race that matched the Yankees and Red Sox.
		And Halberstam knows well the Ferriss story, of how after those first unforgettable first two seasons with the Red Sox, Ferriss hurt his arm and was never the same as a pitcher.
	www.clarionledger.com /news/0310/31/srick.html (660 words)

	Royce Carlton - David Halberstam Journalist Historian
		David Halberstam was born in New York in 1934.
		David Halberstam is a legendary figure in American journalism.
		David Halberstam has been called “this generation's equivalent of Theodore White and John Gunther” by The Boston Globe and his books have received much critical acclaim.
	www.roycecarlton.com /speakers/halberstam_bio.html (603 words)

	David Halberstam, 73, Reporter and Author, Dies - New York Times
		David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and tireless author of books on topics as varied as America’s military failings in Vietnam, the deaths of firefighters at the World Trade Center and the high-pressure world of professional basketball, was killed yesterday in a car crash south of San Francisco.
		Halberstam, a journalism student at the University of California at Berkeley, was injured, as were the drivers of the other two vehicles.
		David Halberstam was born on April 10, 1934, in New York City, to an Army surgeon, Dr. Charles A. Halberstam, and a schoolteacher, Blanche Levy Halberstam.
	www.nytimes.com /2007/04/24/arts/24halberstam.html?ex=1335067200&en=2b679bcd39b0a234&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (817 words)

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