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The Best and the Brightest -- My Favorite Book
Everyone has a favorite book. I read The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam over and over again, at least once a year. Sometimes, I will pick it up to touch and feel it, reading just a page or two, knowing by heart whole sections. It took three y from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Mark Sanford South Carolina Victory Takes Him From 'Free Fall' To Rebirth
WASHINGTON –- Americans, journalist David Halberstam once wrote, are "remarkably tolerant of error, particularly if it is self-confessed." Mark Sanford is thanking his lucky stars that's the case. The former South Carolina governor won his old seat in Co from The Huffington Post Read more »
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And that's the way it was: April 23, 2007
On this day in 2007, David Halberstam, prolific author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, died in a car accident in Menlo Park, CA. He was 73. Halberstam was best known for his early work on the Vietnam War, which included an eyewitness account of the from Columbia Journalism Review Read more »
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Letter to the Editor: Murphy Givens a local treasure
Like renowned journalist/historians David Halberstam or Harrison Salisbury, Murphy delves into what made a region unique; it is our good fortune that the region he chose is South Texas. Periodically, therefore, we get to meet such dynamic individuals as from Corpus Christi Caller-Times Read more »
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30 for 30 Shorts: The Irrelevant Giant Grantland Network: Chuck Klosterman and Bill Parcells: Career Arc: Bill Parcells
Mike Powell/Getty Images Sport How a free-agent coach mastered the NFL By Bryan Curtis on April 18, 2013 O ver the past few decades of football, there were two groups of people who felt Bill Parcells was screwing with them. The first was Bill Parcells's from ESPN Read more »