David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007) was an American writer, journalist, and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, Korean War, and later, sports journalism. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1964. Halberstam was killed in a car crash in 2007 while doing research for a book.
Books in order of publication:
The Noblest Roman. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin. 1961.
The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era. McGraw-Hill. 1965.
One Very Hot Day. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin. 1967.
The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy. Random House. 1968.
Ho. McGraw-Hill. 1971.
The Best and the Brightest. Ballantine Books. 1972.
The Powers That Be. Alfred A. Knopf. 1979.
The Breaks of the Game. Ballantine Books. 1981.
The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal. Ballantine Books. 1985.
The Reckoning. Avon Books. 1986.
Summer of ’49: The Yankees and the Red Sox in Postwar America. New York: William Morrow & Co. 1989.
The Next Century. Random House. 1991.
The Fifties. Ballantine Books. 1993.
October 1964. Ballantine Books. 1994.
The Children. Ballantine Books. 1998.
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made. Broadway Books. 1999.
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals. Scribner. 2001.
Firehouse. Hachette. 2002.
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship. Hyperion. 2003.
The Education of a Coach. Hyperion. 2005.
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War. Hyperion. 2007.
The Glory Game: How the 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever. HarperCollins. 2008.
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