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...other Asian industrial countries, inevitably washed up? Can the U.S. slash its record trade deficit without further depreciating its currency and building higher barriers to imports? New books by two veteran American journalists contain widely differing reflections on these pressing economic issues of the '80s. According to David Halberstam's The Reckoning (Morrow; $19.95), the U.S. has every reason for pessimism about its industrial future. But Robert Christopher's Second to None: American Companies in Japan (Crown; $16.95) presents an argument for pragmatic optimism: many U.S. companies are competing on their opponents' home ground more effectively than most Americans realize...
...industrial failure is the theme of Halberstam, Pulitzer prizewinner and author of The Best and the Brightest and The Powers That Be. The product of five years of research, his latest book attempts to dissect the double whammy suffered by the U.S. auto industry at the hands of OPEC and Japanese automakers. Much of Halberstam's rambling 752-page work is devoted to a dramatic recapitulation of the dynastic and bureaucratic maneuvering at two firms, Ford of Detroit and Nissan of Tokyo, before and during the great U.S. auto crisis of the late '70s. But the moral that Halberstam...
...extremely talented group (five of the boat's members have been on U.S. national teams), the Rude and Smooth is the subject of a chapter in David Halberstam's recent book, The Amateurs...
...Amateurs: David Halberstam's latest book. The Amateurs chronicles the struggle of four rowers to earn the right to be the American single sculler at the 1984 Olympics. Maybe the most important book ever written about the sport...
...America. Yang is taking journalism courses at Boston University in preparation for launching a second career as a part-time lecturer on reporting. Hsiao is attending four courses including Government 1500, "Bureaucracy", as well as regular seminars for Nieman fellows. So far his favorite speakers have been authors David Halberstam '55, whose book The Best and The Brightest is very popular in China, and Bob Woodward...