The Amateurs
The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Medal
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David Halberstam
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At the 1984 Olympics, the United States rowing team—for the first time in nearly 30 years—had a serious chance to win an Olympic medal in the single sculls. Four genuine challengers emerged for the opportunity to represent the US. They competed fiercely in a sport that held no promise of financial reward. What drove these men to endure a physical pain known to no other sport?
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam focuses on these four competitors—Tiff Wood, John Biglow, Brad Lewis, and Joe Bouscaren—in the single sculls trials in Princeton. While one man will win and gain the right to represent the United States in the Olympiad, the losers will have to live with the bitter knowledge that they were not the best, only close to it.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 286
A New York Times best seller, David Halberstam's The Breaks of the Game focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of the Bill Walton-led Portland Trail Blazers, a team that only three years before had been NBA champions. The tactile authenticity of Halberstam's knowledge of the basketball world is unrivaled. Yet he is writing here about far more than just basketball. This is a story about a place in our society where power, money, and talent collide and sometimes corrupt, a place where both national obsessions and naked greed are exposed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truly one of the all time great sports books
- De Ed en 03-11-16
De: David Halberstam
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The Best and the Brightest
- De: David Halberstam
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 37 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,096
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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 most important abiding question of our country’s recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Preparation for Ken Burns
- De Chiefkent en 06-12-17
De: David Halberstam
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Firehouse
- De: David Halberstam
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 4 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
Engine 40, Ladder 35 was one of the firehouses hardest hit in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade towers. On the morning of September 11, 2001, two rigs carrying 13 men set out from this firehouse, located on the West Side of Manhattan near Lincoln Center; 12 of the men would never return. The story of what happens when one small institution gets caught in an apocalyptic day, it is a book that will move readers as few others have in our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short, but gripping
- De peabozzle en 11-11-11
De: David Halberstam
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The Coldest Winter
- America and the Korean War
- De: David Halberstam
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,823
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,261
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,253
Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. The Coldest Winter changes that. Halberstam gives us a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu, and that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. He provides astonishingly vivid and nuanced portraits of all the major figures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Almost as good as The Best and the Brightest
- De Doug en 10-02-07
De: David Halberstam
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Playing for Keeps
- Michael Jordan and the World He Made
- De: David Halberstam
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 20 h y 1 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 255
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 226
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 224
In Playing for Keeps, David Halberstam takes the first full measure of Michael Jordan's epic career, one of the great American stories of our time. A narrative of astonishing power and human drama, brimming with revealing anecdotes and penetrating insights, the audiobook chronicles the forces in Jordan's life that have shaped him into history's greatest basketball player and the larger forces that have converged to make him the most famous living human being in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If You Liked "The Last Dance," You Will Love This
- De John en 06-13-20
De: David Halberstam
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The Next Century
- De: David Halberstam
- Narrado por: E.G. Marshall
- Duración: 4 h y 17 m
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What can we learn from the events of the 20th century? David Halberstam set out to answer that question in this perceptive and eye-opening work which examines the past in order to determine the future. From the rise of the Japanese economy to the startling changes that reshaped the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Halberstam argues that the American economy's survival depends on the rededication and continued education of the American worker. As pertinent in today's economy as it was when first published, The Next Century is a timeless call to arms.
De: David Halberstam