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39 produkter
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Häftad, 2008
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285 kr
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The Best and the Brightest
Häftad, 1993
280 kr
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David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”— The New York Times Using portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons …
Powers That Be
Häftad, 2000
358 kr
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Crackling with the personalities, conflicts, and ambitions that transformed the media from something that followed the news to something that formed it, The Powers That Be is David Halberstam's forceful account of the rise of modern media as an instrument of political power, published here with a …
Ho
Häftad, 2007
386 kr
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One of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century, Ho Chi Minh was founder of the Indochina Communist Party and its successor, the Viet-Minh, and was president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, …
Making of a Quagmire
America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era
Av David Halberstam, Daniel J. Singal
Häftad, 2007
386 kr
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Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal supplies crucial …
Best and the Brightest
E-bok, 2002
33 kr
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David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain. Using portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most …
Word on Words
The Best of John Seigenthaler's Interviews
Av Andrew Maraniss, Arna Bontemps m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
383 kr
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For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most interesting and most important writers of our time. These in-depth exchanges revealed much about the …
Coldest Winter
E-bok, 2011
139 kr
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Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. The Coldest Winter changes that, giving readers a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the …
The Best American Sports Writing of the Century
Av David Halberstam, Glenn Stout
Häftad, 1999
312 kr
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The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal
Häftad, 1996
278 kr
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Ho
Inbunden, 2007
956 kr
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One of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century, Ho Chi Minh was founder of the Indochina Communist Party and its successor, the Viet-Minh, and was president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, …
War in a Time of Peace
Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
Ljudbok, 2001
294 kr
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post Cold War America. Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how the decisions of …
The Teammates
A Portrait of a Friendship
Häftad, 2004
195 kr
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NOW IN PAPERBACK! From bestselling author David Halberstam comes the story of the 60-year friendship among baseball greats Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggio, and Johnny Pesky, all of whom played baseball together with the Boston Red Sox in the late 1940s.Ted Williams always remained not only …
Education of a Coach
A Portrait of a Friendship
Häftad, 2015
225 kr
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Now in paperback, legendary journalist and author David Halberstam's in-depth look at the life and career of the NFL's winningest coach, Bill Belichick, with unprecedented access to Belichick.Bill Belichick's 31 years in the NFL have been marked by amazing success-first in Cleveland, then with the …
Everything They Had
Sports Writing from David Halberstam
Häftad, 2009
239 kr
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"Sometimes sports mirrors society, sometimes it allows us to understand the larger society a little better. But mostly, it is a world of entertainment of talented and driven young men and women who do certain things with both skill and passion."--David Halberstam David Halberstam was a …
Fifties
E-bok, 2012
235 kr
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This vivid New York Times bestseller about 1950s America from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist is "an engrossing sail across a pivotal decade" (Time).Joe McCarthy. Marilyn Monroe. The H-bomb. Ozzie and Harriet. Elvis. Civil rights. It''s undeniable: The fifties were a defining decade for …
Next Century
E-bok, 2012
221 kr
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist delivers "a thoughtful evaluation of the nation''s condition" in this New York Times bestseller (Business Week).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 …
Powers That Be
E-bok, 2012
221 kr
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A Pulitzer Prize winner''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 …
Reckoning
E-bok, 2012
235 kr
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This New York Times–bestselling history is "an immense, and immensely readable, saga of the American and Japanese auto industries" (Boston Globe).After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the Japanese auto industry in the decades …
Summer of '49
E-bok, 2012
235 kr
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This #1 bestselling baseball classic of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is "a celebration of a vanished heroic age" (The New York Times Book Review).The summer of 1949: It was baseball''s Golden Age and the year Joe DiMaggio''s New York Yankees were locked in a soon-to-be classic battle with Ted …
October 1964
E-bok, 2012
221 kr
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The New York Times bestseller by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, capturing the 1964 World Series between the Yankees and Cardinals."Compelling . . . [October] 1964 is a chronicle of the end of a great dynasty and of a game, like the country, on the cusp of enormous change." —NewsweekDavid …
Children
E-bok, 2012
235 kr
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"The early days of the civil-rights movement come to life as never before" in this history from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author (Wall Street Journal).The young men and women at the heart of David Halberstam''s brilliant and poignant The Children came together through Reverend James Lawson''s …
Playing for Keeps
Michael Jordan and the World He Made
E-bok, 2012
221 kr
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist looks at the life and times of the Chicago Bulls superstar— “The best Jordan book so far” ( The Washington Post ). One of sport’s biggest superstars, Michael Jordan is more than an internationally renowned athlete. As illuminated through David Halberstam’s …
