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...offering tired facts and not always enlightening insights about the past 10 decades. It is debatable whether a 12-hour examination of modern world history actually requires an entire 60 min. on Elvis. It is iffier still whether anyone watching the segment will benefit from a dour-looking David Halberstam explaining that "the King" was an iconoclast and a "forerunner to youth culture." And while we're on the tricky subject of inclusions and omissions, how did the producers justify an hour on the Iranian hostage crisis and not, say, on the creation of Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Global One-Man Show | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...Detroit long before the Toyota Camry or Honda Accord ever saw a drafting table. Nissan's success gave weight to the myth that Japanese companies were run by enlightened executives who worked in frictionless synchronicity with workers to produce superior cars. In his best-selling book The Reckoning, David Halberstam suggested that U.S. industry, namely the Ford Motor Co., would be consigned to a never-ending game of catch-up with the likes of Nissan, a company driven by the Japanese "demonic need for excellence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nissan Calls For A Tow | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

From the field, there are stories by the New York Times' David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan that peel away the optimism of American officialdom. Or read the devastating comparison by the Washington Post's Richard Harwood of inflated, official battle reports against the accounts of correspondents on the scene to understand the origins of the "credibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War As It Was | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...David Halberstam is completing a book about Michael Jordan and the Bulls. His recently published book, The Children, is about the early civil rights protesters he covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How He Got Up There | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

Other weekend events included panel discussions about Wall Street, "Publicity vs. Privacy in Law," "New Media" and a discussion led by David Halberstam '55, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Panels, Festivities Mark Crimson's 125th Anniversary | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

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