David Halberstam (1934-2007) was the author of twenty-two books, including fifteen bestsellers. Born in New York City, Halberstam spent much of the 1960s as a reporter for the New York Times, covering the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. His Vietnam reporting earned him both a George C. Polk Award and a 1964 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Vanity Fair dubbed Halberstam "the Moses of American journalism," and the subjects of his books reflect his passion and range: war, foreign policy, history, and sports.
The Best and the Brightest (1962), his sixth book, a critique of the Kennedy administration's Vietnam policy, became a #1 bestseller. His next book, The Powers that Be, a study of four American media companies, was hailed by the New York Times as a "prodigy of research." Many of Halberstam's books explored themes in professional sports, including bestsellers The Teammates, a portrait of the friendship between baseball players Ted Williams, Dominic DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Bobby Doerr, and The Education of a Coach, a profile of New England Patriots' Coach Bill Belichick.
"An instant classic look at the people, power and politicsthat
created a dangerous stage...and then acted on it."--Chicago
Sun-Times
"Halberstam is at his very best."--The Wall Street Journal
"He is a peerless reporter of events and facts--with a signature
human touch."--The Seattle Times
"His most operatic war story."--The New York Times Book Review
"I could hardly put this book down. Meticulously and thoroughly
researched, it is splendidly compelling reading. The Coldest Winter
is a superb conjoining of all the factors of this tragic war: the
military tactics and strategy of both sides; the international
diplomacy; the internal politics; the personalities of the various
players. A great work."--Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.), co-author
of We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young
"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance. Mr. Halberstam
has brought the war back home."--The New York Times
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