RIP David Halberstam

I heard it on the radio a little while ago. The light had turned green and I was just sitting there listening to it until the car behind me honked.

 

Stunning. Absolutely stunning. He's on the Mt. Rushmore for American journalists.

 

"The Best & the Brightest" was a brilliant book. RIP.

 

Me too. Oh man.
Loved his books, loved his works.
RIP.

 

This is so damn depressing. You know he probably had four or five good books left to write too. Dammit all to hell.

 

Secondary part of the story:

I feel bad for the grad student, and I am definitely curious as to the details of the accident.

 

From what I understand, he was currently working on something about the Korean War.

 

From AP:

Jean Halberstam said her husband was being driven to an interview he had scheduled with Hall of Fame quarterback Y.A. Tittle. Halberstam was working on a new book, “The Game,” about
the 1958 NFL championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants, often called the greatest game ever played, she said.

 

Though I'm not sure I can speak to ESPN's general decency, they do now have about 15 or 20 of his columns now linked to the AP story about his death on the front page of ESPN.com.

 

RIP to a great journalist. Equally at home covering sports or social isues, he was a model for us all.

This is a damn tragedy for the business and for those who enjoy great writing.

 

Oh man. I bet that would have been a great book.

And IJAG, that's exactly what I did, too: gasped and covered my mouth.

 

The books:

— The Noblest Roman
— The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert F. Kennedy (1965)
— The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the
Kennedy era (1965)
— One Very Hot Day (1967)
— Ho (1971)
— The Best and the Brightest (1972)
— The Powers That Be (1979)
— The Breaks of the Game (1981)
— The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for
an Olympic Gold Medal (1985)
— The Reckoning (1986)
— Summer of ’49 (1989)
— The Next Century (1991)
— The Fifties (1993)
— October 1964 (1994)
— The Children (1999)
— Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made (1999)
— War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals (2001)
— Firehouse (2002)
— The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship (2003)
— Bill Belichick: The Education of a Coach (2005)
— The Coldest Winter (due in fall 2007)