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Книги Дэвида Халберстама

Дэвид Халберстам - автор 6 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: The Fifties, The Best and the Brightest, The Breaks of the Game. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.

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The Fifties
The Fifties

The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick and Mac McDonald and Ray Kroc, who mass-produced the A...

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The Best and the Brightest
The Best and the Brightest

The Best and the Brightest is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. 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 important abiding question of our country's recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam and why did it lose? A...

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The Breaks of the Game
The Breaks of the Game

Join Halberstam on his yearlong journey with the 1979 Portland Trail Blazers and witness professional basketball from the inside. This insightful account is evidence of how much basketball has--and hasn't--changed since 1979.

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War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals

In this successor to his #1 nat'l bestseller "The Best & the Brightest," Halberstam describes in fascinating human detail how the shadow of the Cold War still hangs over American foreign policy & how domestic politics have determined our role as a world power. More than 25 years ago he told the story of the men who conceived & executed the Vietnam War. Now the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ha...

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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another pivotal moment in our history: the Korean War. Halberstam considered The Coldest Winter his most accomplished work, the culmination of forty-fi...

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The Powers That Be
The Powers That Be

A forceful account of the rise of modern media as an instrument of political power, with a new introduction by the author.