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| | 1. |  | The Best and the Brightest
from Ballantine Books
Price: $8.90
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One of the most fascinating books of human politics and psychology I have ever read. Getting close to the end of the 600+ pages I just wished it wouldn't end. Halberstam's writing style is so ultimately engaging, factual yet compassionate, objective (a true reporter's virtue) and passionate (in a... more info
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| | 4. |  | The Breaks of the Game
from Hyperion
Price: $6.35
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David Halberstam was one of the most astute observers of American culture of the past century. His skill as a reporter was not only in his meticulous accumulation of facts and his canny ability to piece them together into a coherent historical perspective. His true genius was the realization that... more info
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| | 6. |  | the Reckoning
from Morrow
Price: $49.80
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I read this book a few decades ago, and it really drove home the point of what happens when accountants and MBAs get more control over product design than engineers and inventors. The arrogance of Ford's upper management in the 1960s and 1970s laid out here is astounding.
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| | 9. |  | The Children
from Ballantine Books
Price: $9.37
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Author Halberstam needs no introduction, and, in my eyes, this is one of his most underrated books, which is saying something.
A wonderful and moving portrait of important American history. I write this review of one of my favorite works of history the morning after President Obama's... more info
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