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...Selling of the President, 1968, a savage back-room report on the manipulative TV advertising in Richard Nixon's campaign, made him, at 26, the youngest U.S. nonfiction writer to top the New York Times best-seller list. Other triumphs followed. If McGinniss did not quite rank with David Halberstam or John McPhee as a chronicler, he stood not too far behind...
...bound to coddle people with the information they want to hear, but to provide them with the information they should hear. "If people don't like it, I'm sorry," snapped Sam Donaldson on ABC's PrimeTime Live, "but they really need to know what's happening." Comments David Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Vietnam: "It isn't a popularity contest for us, and we shouldn't seek it to be one. The people of this country wouldn't like it very much afterwards if it turns out that ((the war)) doesn't go well...
SUMMER OF '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow; $21.95). A quirky and informal account of the American League pennant race between the Red Sox and the Yankees deepens into a nostalgic memoir of a vanishing era, when people listened to the radio, traveled by train and went around the corner to see a movie...
SUMMER OF '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow; $21.95). A quirky and informal account of the American League pennant race between the Red Sox and the Yankees deepens into a nostalgic memoir of a vanishing era, when people listened to the radio, traveled by train and went around the corner to see a movie...
SUMMER OF '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow; $21.95). A quirky and informal account of the American League pennant race between the Red Sox and the Yankees deepens into a nostalgic memoir of a vanishing era, when people listened to the radio, traveled by train and went around the corner to see a movie...