President Obama's Feud with FOX News Oct 24, 2009
John Kennedy tried to get New York Timesman David Halberstam pulled out of Vietnam; and Vice-President Spiro Agnew's assaults on the network press is legendary. "We have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism," Agnew said. (CBS News)
Jack Nelson, reporter hailed for rights, Watergate stories Oct 23, 2009
The stories resulting from Mr. Nelson s interview with Baldwin were the first to link the burglary right to the heart of the Nixon reelection campaign, David Halberstam wrote in his 1979 book The Powers That Be. Named in 1975 to lead the paper s Washington bureau, Mr. Nelson oversaw its evolution over the next 21 years into what Gene Roberts Jr., former managing editor of The New York Times and a onetime rival of Mr. Nelson s on the civil rights beat, called arguably one of the finest bureaus... (Boston Globe)
Will We Stay 50 Years In Afghanistan? Oct 16, 2009
They bear a distinct resemblance to the Vietnam-era elite described by David Halberstam as "the best and the brightest," the New Frontiersmen who were propelled to the "dizzying heights of antiguerrilla activity and discussion," revived the Green Berets and ultimately crashed in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Today's special operatives may track down and kill Osama bin Laden, as they did Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967. (CBS News)
as quoted by the New Yorker Oct 15, 2009
Phillips was one of the few officials in a position to know how badly the war was going, and he and a blithely optimistic Marine general argued it out in front of Kennedy, in a scene that made Phillips s reputation as a fearless straight-talker (David Halberstam recorded it in The Best and the Brightest ). After 1963, Phillips ended his official work in Vietnam. (Harper's Magazine)
DaveHydeInside The NFL The University of Parcells has a marquee reunion this Sunday. Oct 15, 2009
In Belichick's biography written by David Halberstam, Belichick says, "We're different, and I'm not saying one's better or worse, but the biggest thing I'd say about Bill is he never lost sight of the big picture, of winning.". If there's a uniting force inside this circle, it's how they started like their mentor did: From the bottom. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NFL)
I’m in love with Google Oct 7, 2009
Last week I had to check a fact about Otis Chandler, and Google took me to the exact page I needed, from David Halberstam s The Powers That Be. A few years ago, I would have had to go to the library, find the book, and so on. (Boston Globe)
Worst and Dimmest: Learning the wrong lessons from David Halberstam, Benajamin Wallace-Wells, The New Republic Aug 21, 2009
The New RepublicWorst and Dimmest by Benjamin Wallace-Wells Learning the wrong lessons from David Halberstam ... This skepticism about an excess of brains in government has persisted so long in large part due to the vividness of David Halberstam's study of the McNamara cohort. (Harper's Magazine)
‘1959’ provides lots of information, few revelations Aug 20, 2009
Some of the material was dealt with in a more comprehensive and elegant manner in David Halberstam s The Fifties and readers can use that book to place some of the points made by Kaplan in broader context. Kaplan is strongest on cultural history and has an encyclopedic knowledge of popular culture, especially jazz and to a lesser extent Motown. (Boston Globe)
The term Cronkiter faces scrutiny, debunking Aug 6, 2009
Apparently, the first journalist to publish it was Pulitzer-prize-winning author David Halberstam. In a magazine piece in 1976, Halberstam wrote that Cronkite's international stature was such that, "in Sweden, anchormen came to be known as Cronkiters." It was a tidbit Halberstam repeated in his classic 1979 chronicle of the modern media world, "The Powers That Be.". (MSNBC -- News)
Remember The Forgotten War Jul 29, 2009
pertzsch wrote on Jul 28, 2009 10:44 AM:" One of the best books on the Korean Was was "The Coldest Winter" by David Halberstam. It has been long enough now to see the war as it was.An old saying from Vietnam comes back, "We are the unwilling, lead by the incompetents, to do the unnecessary for the ungrateful". That fit Korea also. ". Ronald to Bowers wrote on Jul 28, 2009 10:40 AM:" Bowers, you asked politely as a gentleman and, as a gentleman, I will comply. I do have a request of you, however.... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Raghu Krishnan: First TV news-anchor Jul 26, 2009
In his book The Powers That Be, David Halberstam writes about four media organisations that shaped American public opinion--Time, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and CBS. It was thanks to Cronkite's anchoring of its daily evening-news telecast that CBS figured on Halberstam's elite list. Those were the days when the staple fare on American television was serials and sitcoms and the news was shown for around half-an-hour on prime-time when the entire family could watch. (India Times)
Cheetahs Never Prosper? Jul 22, 2009
Starting with the Brooklyn Eagles Henry Chadwick, and going all the way through the New York Heralds Dan Daniel (David Halberstam said he considered himself the official oracle of the sport as did Chadwick, it might be noted), the New York Daily News Dick Young, the Boston Globes Peter Gammons (who has since gone electronic on ESPN) and the Philadelphia Daily News Bill Conlin (who has been known to start out columns with the wishful thought When Im King of the... (Philadelphia, TheInsiders.com)
News legend Walter Cronkite dies at 92 Jul 19, 2009
As David Halberstam wrote of Mr. Cronkite in his book The Powers That Be : He had that special quality that television demands, that audiences sense, and that is somehow intangible - he had weight; he projected a kind of authority. It is impossible to imagine CBS News, journalism, or indeed America without Walter Cronkite, Sean McManus, CBS News president, said in a statement released to the AP. More than just the best and most trusted anchor in history, he guided America through our crises,... (Boston Globe)
A pleasurable obit Jul 10, 2009
Upon hanging up, I would call Neil Sheehan and David Halberstam and run McNamara's comments past them for deconstruction and the addition of the truth. The only disagreement I ever had with Dave Halberstam was over the question of which of us hated him the most. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
Adam Gopnik honored at 'Booked' event Jun 16, 2009
Previous award winners were Tom Brokaw, E.L. Doctorow, Calvin Trillin, Wendy Wasserstein, Arthur Mitchell, Pete Hamill, Martin Scorsese, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Oscar Hijuelos, and David Halberstam. Westport Minuteman 2009. (Westport Minuteman, CT)
Catching up with Watertown High Hall of Famer Bob Norton May 23, 2009
A. History of the Korean War by David Halberstam. 4. (Watertown TAB & Press, MA)
Peter Costa: The value and legacy of print journalism May 19, 2009
Later, during Vietnam, the reporting of Neil Sheehan of United Press International and David Halberstam of the New York Times changed the way Americans viewed the war and reemphasized the value of competing news organizations doing their own reporting. We sometimes forget that it is independent, fair and accurate reporting that we will miss more than anything else if newspapers fade away. (Medfield Press, MA)
ASCHBURNER: Yao's injury woes are an all-too-familiar NBA story May 14, 2009
In The Breaks of the Game, that celebrated book about the ' grim 1979-80 season, the late David Halberstam writes at length about center Bill Walton, transcendent as the NBA's Most Valuable Player and anchor of Portland's championship team three years earlier. Walton already was already gone to San Diego, his last game with the Blazers way back in April 1978, his career diminished and in jeopardy by a series of foot and ankle problems. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NBA)
Friends, family tip their hats to off-field feats of DiMaggio May 12, 2009
Quoting the late author David Halberstam in his 2003 book "The Teammates," DiMaggio recalled his father as "graceful, elegant, and wise.". A seven-time All-Star who spent his entire career with the Red Sox, DiMaggio died Friday at his Marion home after a bout with pneumonia. (Boston Globe)
'Underrated' quiet star DiMaggio dies May 9, 2009
The late author David Halberstam once described Mr. DiMaggio as "probably the most underrated player of his day.". Playing in the shadow of the era's two biggest superstars made that inevitable, perhaps. (Boston Globe)
Red Sox great Dom DiMaggio, Joe's brother, dies May 8, 2009
"Watching the play had been pure agony for Dominic DiMaggio...," David Halberstam wrote in his 2003 book, "The Teammates." "His own injury, his own pulled hamstring, Dominic now decided, had been the decisive play of the game.". After the Red Sox finally won the World Series in 2004, their first since 1918, DiMaggio, Pesky and Doerr were on hand on opening day 2005 to raise the championship banner at Fenway Park. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Dom DiMaggio dies at 92 May 8, 2009
DiMaggio and former teammates Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr and Johnny Pesky were the subjects of the 2004 book, "The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship," written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam. In addition to his wife, Dom DiMaggio is survived by three children and six grandchildren. (MLB.com -- Boston Red Sox)
Obama turns left Apr 6, 2009
The best and the brightest is how author David Halberstam dubbed those who advised Mr. Johnson and John F. Kennedy before him. They believed they could win the war in Vietnam while reshaping health care, education, housing and civil rights the Great Society, it was called. (Globe and Mail)
Born again - and again Apr 2, 2009
David Halberstam called them "a time of trivial pursuits.". Gordon W Prange's 1982 book At Dawn We Slept tells the tale of an America blissfully unaware of the true nature of the world threats facing it as the world fell into war and the Japanese prepared the attack on Pearl Harbor; if America was sleeping in 1941, in the late 1990s it was in a permanent haze of total blitzed zonk generated by the world's most-prescribed sleeping pill, Halcion, and very much enjoying it as it gazed wistfully at... (Asia Times Online)
Newsweek: Krugman Obama's biggest critic? Apr 1, 2009
The in crowd of any age can be deceived by self-confidence, as Liaquat Ahamed has shown in "Lords of Finance," his new book about the folly of central bankers before the Great Depression, and David Halberstam revealed in his Vietnam War classic, "The Best and the Brightest." Krugman may be exaggerating the decay of the financial system or the devotion of Obama's team to preserving it. But what if he's right, or part right. (MSNBC -- Business)
Birthday beat Mar 28, 2009
Halberstam street-naming is no done dealThe city of Cambridge is mulling a proposal to rename Plympton Street after the late, great journalist David Halberstam, but not all locals are thrilled with the idea ... "The Crimson doesn't have an objection to honoring David Halberstam," Crane said of the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter killed in a 2007 car accident. (Boston Globe)
