The Best and the Brightest by David HalberstamRequirements: .MP3 reader, 947 MBOverview: 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 […]
Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) by Jack HalberstamRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.0 MBOverview: In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and against trans […]
The Education of a Coach by David HalberstamRequirements: .MP3 reader, 262 MBOverview: More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country’s most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his ground-breaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote […]
The Queer Art of Failure by Jack HalberstamRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 274 MBOverview: The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives – to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break […]
The Breaks of the Game by David HalberstamRequirements: .MP3 reader, 482 MBOverview: More than six years after his death, David Halberstam remains one of this country’s most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize winner for his groundbreaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberstam […]