WRITER

David Halberstam

1934 - 2007

David Halberstam

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Halberstam has received more than 734,572 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. David Halberstam is the 6,139th most popular writer (down from 5,590th in 2019), the 10,385th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,759th in 2019) and the 775th most popular American Writer.

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Notable Works

The Coldest Winter

Koreakrieg, Koreaanse oorlog, Campaigns

Around Thanksgiving, 1950, while the rest of the country paid as little attention as possible, units of the Second Infantry Division were virtually annihilated by forces of the People’s Republic Army. It was a defeat which shocked an otherwise disinterested and distant nation. In The Coldest Winter, award-winning reporter and historian David Halberstam explodes this moment in time, using it as a jumping off point to delve into the Korean War’s particular horrors and triumphs. Using first-person interviews and detailed historical research, Halberstam exposes the truth about this underreported war by examining the geopolitics involved and also showing it from the vantage of the men whose poor fortune it was to be on history’s cutting edge. The book contains portrayals of ordinary soldiers as well as of McArthur, Eisenhower, and other major players.

2007

Politics and government, Presidents, Biography

1971

The making of a quagmire

Foreign relations, Politics and government

1965

The Amateurs

Olympics, Rowers, Biography

1985

The Fifties

Politics and government, Social life and customs, Economic conditions

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 American hamburger; Kemmons Wilson, who placed his Holiday Inns along the nation's roadsides; U-2 pilot Gary Francis Powers; Grace Metalious, who wrote Peyton Place; and "Goody" Pincus, who led the team that invented the Pill.

1993

The Best and the Brightest

Politics and government, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, History

David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.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 we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic.From the Hardcover edition.

1972

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Over the past year David Halberstam has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 77,286 views, followed by Japanese (6,282), and Chinese (3,177). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Norwegian (Nynorsk) (76.47%), Southern Azerbaijani (72.83%), and Czech (49.78%)