4.5
The Children
ByPublisher Description
The young men and women at the heart of David Halberstam's brilliant and poignant
came together through Reverend James Lawson's workshops on nonviolence. Idealistic and determined, they showed unwavering bravery during the sit-ins at the Nashville lunch counters and on the Freedom Rides across the South—all chronicled here with Halberstam's characteristic clarity and insight.
exhibits the incredible strength of generations of black Americans, who sacrificed greatly to improve the world for their children. Following Diane Nash, John Lewis, Gloria Johnson, Bernard Lafayette, Marion Barry, Curtis Murphy, James Bevel, and Rodney Powell, among others,
is rooted in Halberstam's coverage of the civil rights movement for Nashville's
.
A New York Times Notable Book, this volume garnered extraordinary acclaim for David Halberstam, the #1
–bestselling author of
. Upon its publication, the
called it "utterly absorbing . . . The civil rights movement already has produced superb works of history, books such as David J. Garrow's
and Taylor Branch's recently published
. . . Halberstam adds another with
."
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About David Halberstam
(1934-2007) was the author of twenty-two books, including fifteen bestsellers. Born in New York City, Halberstam spent much of the 1960s as a reporter for the
, covering the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. His Vietnam reporting earned him both a George C. Polk Award and a 1964 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
dubbed Halberstam "the Moses of American journalism," and the subjects of his books reflect his passion and range: war, foreign policy, history, and sports.
(1962), his sixth book, a critique of the Kennedy administration's Vietnam policy, became a #1 bestseller. His next book,
, a study of four American media companies, was hailed by the
as a "prodigy of research." Many of Halberstam's books explored themes in professional sports, including bestsellers
, a portrait of the friendship between baseball players Ted Williams, Dominic DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Bobby Doerr, and
, a profile of New England Patriots' Coach Bill Belichick.
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