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remembering David Halberstam
We’ve lost another one. David Halberstam, an exceptional writer, has died in a car wreck, near San Francisco. Halberstam died doing his job, he was on his way to interview the former New York Giants quarterback, Y.A Tittle.
Halberstam wrote widely and he wrote well. He wrote about politics and war. He wrote about sports; baseball, basketball and football. He seemed to follow a pattern of writing very serious books on serious subjects (The Viet Nam War, the Korean War, The World Trade Center tragedy) that alternated with more light-hearted topics, like “The Summer of ‘49,” a book about the 1949 pennant struggles between the Yankees and the Red Sox.
In my book, Halberstam was truly a legend. I had always wanted to interview him. Halberstam was 73. He will be missed.
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By Page Turner
May 4, 2007 12:58 AM | Link to this
“The Powers That Be” is essential for understanding how media works, even if most of the moguls mentioned no longer own those entities. “The Breaks of the Game” is a great study of a briefly great basketball team, the Portland Trail Blazers when Bill Walton had healthy feet.