The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era by David HalberstamRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 5.6 MbOverview: Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam’s eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the […]
The Fifties by David HalberstamRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 5.9 MbOverview: 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, […]
The Best and the Brightest by David HalberstamRequirements: .MP3 reader, 1 GbOverview: 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 Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal by David HalberstamRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 6.4 MbOverview: In 1984, rowing was a sport continually relegated to the margins, far from the spotlights attracted by other Olympic events. That year, four men went head-to-head for the right to compete […]
Summer of ’49: The Yankees and the Red Sox in Postwar America by David HalberstamRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 7.9 MbOverview: Halberstam’s classic #1 bestseller, about the magical summer when baseball’s fiercest rivalry captured the nation’s imagination, and changed the sport forever The summer of 1949: It was baseball’s Golden Age and the year Joe DiMaggio’s […]