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David Halberstam

The Best and the Brightest -- My Favorite Book

Steve Mariotti | Posted 05.20.2013 | Books
Read More: The Best and the Brightest, Ford Finance, Ford Motor Co, Bob McNamara, David Halberstam, Books News
Steve Mariotti

Everyone has a favorite book. I read The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam over and over again, at least once a year. Sometimes, I will pick it up to touch and feel it, reading just a page or two, knowing by heart whole sections.

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Recalling George McGovern's Last Campaign

William Bradley | Posted 12.22.2012 | Politics
Read More: Iowa, Maria Shriver, 1984 Presidential Campaign, Arnold Schwarzenegger, New Hampshire, Jesse Jackson, Ronald Reagan, Vietnam War, Walter Mondale, 1972 Presidential Campaign, George Mcgovern, John Glenn, Democratic Party, Sargent Shriver, Bill Clinton, Robert Kennedy, Alan Cranston, Richard Nixon, Massachusetts, David Halberstam, Hillary Clinton, Gary Hart, Video, Politics News
William Bradley

George McGovern lived these core ideals of the American Republic, acting in the tradition of Jefferson and the Enlightenment. And he lived them in dramatic action, in some of the most turbulent times of American history.

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John Edwards and the Ed Prichard Example

Don McNay | Posted 08.02.2012 | Politics
Read More: Donald Graham, Kentucky Bar Association, Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, David Halberstam, John Edwards, Kentucky, Washington Post, Don McNay, Education Reform, Ed Prichard, Robert Sexton, Jeffrey Toobin, Eliot Spitzer, Politics News
Don McNay

Edwards needs to get Prichard's biography. It's a good starting point on redemption and channeling great talents in a productive manner.

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Former CIA Director William Colby Subject of New Documentary

Michael Rose | Posted 12.14.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Carl Colby, Vint Lawrence, Church Committee, Cia, Vietnam, Anwar Al-Awlaki, William Colby, David Halberstam, First Run Features, Hmong, Documentary, New York Times, Seymour Hersh, Los Angeles News
Michael Rose

The Man Nobody Knew chronicles the life of the filmmaker's father, CIA Director William Colby, whose testimony to the Senate panel prompted numerous reforms in the agency.

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Engine 49-Ladder 35 - Where a 9/11 "Family" Gathers Near Lincoln Center

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 11.12.2011 | New York
Read More: Lincoln Center, Firefighters, Decade After 9/11 - Remembering, David Halberstam, New York News
Evelyn Leopold

They had their own ceremony among what survivors called "family" at Engine 40 and Ladder 35 on 66th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. Twelve out of 13 firefighters died 10 years ago trying to rescue those hopelessly trapped at the World Trade Center.

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Amanda Terkel

Haley Barbour Under Fire For Civil Rights Comments

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) has set off a firestorm of controversy over his comments on the civil rights era in his hometown of Y...

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Letter From Paris: "The Talent of His Generation"

Beth Arnold | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Loss, Grief, The Prince of Tides, David Halberstam, Dealing With Grief, Healthy Living News
Beth Arnold

The unsaid truth about grief is it never dies. Yes, the shock eventually subsides, and, sooner or later, each day gets easier to face. But part of me left with Brent, and it is a part of me that can never be found.

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Digging Deep: A Treasury of Books About Journalism

Michael W. Hudson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Ida Tarbel, Standard Oil, Enron, George W. Bush, David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, News Media, JFK Assassination, James Phelan, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, John D. Rockefeller, Muckraking, Vietnam, State of the News Media, Jessica Mitford, Peter Arnett, Watergate, Clark Mollenhoff, Nixon, Woodward and Bernstein, Censorship, Investigative Reporting, Nixonburgers, Center for Public Integrity, Bob Woodward, Media News
Michael W. Hudson

With the struggles of many old-line news media, it's easy to forget how important real reporting is to informing citizens and defeating the forces of secrecy and propaganda.

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: The Greatest Generation, The Tonight Show, The Roaring Twenties, Hula-Hoops, Sarah Vaughn, Zeitgeist, The Millennial Generation, Marilyn Monroe, Lawrence Olivier, Fred Kaplan, Brando, Dave Brubeck, Guggenheim Museum, Slate Magazine, On the Waterfront, Dinah Washington, Non-Objective Art, I Love Lucy, The Today Show, Bill Haley, Robert Heinlein, James Dean, 1959: The Year Everything Changed, The Silent Generation, Rockabilly, Paul Newman, Abstract Expressionism, Joe Barrett, Jaspar Johns, Chuck Berry, Vladimir Nabokov, Frisbee, Doctor Zhivago, Peanuts. Playboy Magazine, Charlotte's Web, Ingmar Bergman, Rock and Roll, Don't Ask Don't Telll, Jerry Mulligan, David Halberstam, Fats Domino, The Civil Rights Movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dizzy Gillespie, The Fifties, Rothko, Tolkein, Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, Jackson Pollack, Elvis, John Coltrane, Ayn Rand, Martin and Lewis, Modern Jazz, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lenny Bruce, Charlie Parker, The Me Generation, Jack Kerouac, Ella Fiztgerald, The Cold War, Kandinsky, Ray Bradbury, Micro Chip, Sputnik, Brown v. Board of Education, Audible.com, De Kooning, Little Rock, Gen-X, Pepsi Cola, Arthur C. Clarke, Duck-and-Cover, Catcher in the Rye, James Bond, Mort Sahl, The Great Depression, Asimov, Fellini, Books News
Tom Alderman

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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The Death of the American Sportswriter

Ryan Phillips | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Read More: Print Media, Death of Journalism, Frank Deford, Sports Commentary, Sports Writing, Damon Runyon, Sportwriters, Journalism, David Halberstam, Sports News
Ryan Phillips

The medium is being killed off by the advent of new technology and the most devastating economic collapse in decades. But the real reason for the death of sports writing is sportswriters themselves.

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Spinning the War in Afghanistan

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Green Beret, Vietnam War, Special Envoy, The Only Thing Worth Fighting For, Vietnam, David Halberstam, The New York Times, Neil Sheehan, Diem, Afghanistan, Karzai, Special Forces, World News
Ashley Rindsberg

One has to wonder why after eight years of near-total silence, the media has suddenly, gushingly fallen in love with covering the war in Afghanistan.

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Detroit's Day of Reckoning (with Thanks to David Halberstam)

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Chapter 11, Peter Morici, Chrysler, United Auto Workers, Rick Wagoner, David Halberstam, Cars, Chris Dodd, Ford, Robert Lutz, Nissan, Robert Nardelli, US Senate, Detroit, Richard Shelby, President Bush, Masters of the Universe, Northwest Airlines, Uaw, Bankruptcy, Gm, Alan Mulally, Pebble Beach, Detroit Three, Washington DC, Democrats, Barack Obama, Tokyo Motor Show, Ron Gettelfinger, Code Pink, Harry Reid, Republicans, Dearborn, Business News
Steve Parker

This week's bailout hearing signaled what looks like the ultimate day of reckoning for this country's once-great and world-dominating car making industry. All Americans are tired of the excuses.

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FBI Tracked David Halberstam For More Than Two Decades

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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NEW YORK — The FBI tracked the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam for more than two decades, newly released docu...

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Report: FBI kept file on writer David Halberstam

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: David Halberstam, David Halberstam FBI File, David Halberstam FBI, Fbi, Media News

NEW YORK — The FBI tracked the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam for more than two decades, newly released docu...

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Nothing is Different and Everything has Changed

Paula Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: George Bush, John McCain, Presidential Detachment, War, David Halberstam, Politics News
Paula Gordon

A friend and former Marine officer just forwarded this citation to me. It is a quote from the August 11, 2005 New York Times: "Writing about Vietnam...

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Con Games: Code Friedman

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Newspapers, Thomas Friedman, Aspen, Aspen Ideas Festival, Books, David Halberstam, Thomas Friedman Suck on This, Media News
Michael Conniff

Something has happened to Thomas Friedman: he has started to believe his own bullsh*t. A fatal flaw has crept into Friedman's reporting that borders on journalistic megalomania.

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