The Washington Post‘s Joe Stephens has a story today about the FBI’s 15 year-long surveillance of Norman Mailer, which began in 1962 after Mr. Mailer wrote an article about Jacqueline Kennedy for Esquire.
According to Mr. Stephens:
FBI agents closely tracked the grand and mundane aspects of the acclaimed novelist’s life, Read More
THE COLDEST WINTER: AMERICA AND THE KOREAN WAR
By David Halberstam
Hyperion, 719 pages, $35
One day last April, Gay Talese was a guest at an analytical writing class I was teaching at the University of Southern California. Introducing my old friend from The New York Times, I said that he and Read More
It felt like practically everyone who has ever had a by-line had crowded into the sanctuary of Riverside Church Tuesday afternoon to say good-bye to David Halberstam, an author with the voice of a deity, the heft of a tight end, and a hardcover-track-record that was the envy of every writer in the Read More
Neil Sheehan, who worked alongside David Halberstam in the early years of the Vietnam War, recalled what could happen if someone got between Mr. Halberstam and a story. Mr. Sheehan was writing for U.P.I. and Mr. Halberstam for The New York Times, and the two were blocked from flying into the combat zone where a Read More
David Halberstam works at his office in New York City on May 14, 1993. (Photo: AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The San Mateo County coroner's office has confirmed to The Observer the death of David Halberstam, the journalist and author, in a car crash this morning in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Earlier reports, including one from Read More
The San Mateo County coroner's office has confirmed to The Observer the death of David Halberstam, the journalist and author, in a car crash this morning in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Earlier reports, including one from the Associated Press, described the accident as a collision. Mr. Halberstam's car, which was being driven by a Read More
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made , by David Halberstam. Random House, 426 pages, $24.95.
Now that he’s gone–he says it’s “99.9 percent” certain–we’re ready for the summing up. But we’ve already been at it for years. Larry Bird, early in Michael Jordan’s career, called him a god in human form. Read More
The most poignant moment at last June’s memorial service for J. Anthony Lukas came when David Halberstam walked out on the stage of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. David Halberstam began in an almost joyful voice-We were just boys when we met for the first time. But soon he was groping helplessly for Read More
