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The Children
by Halberstam, David
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679415610
- ISBN 13
- 9780679415619
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to number line including the number two which at the time was the Random House convention for identifying first editions. Hard cover in very good condition with white boards, maroon spine cloth and copper gilt spine lettering. Internal text block clean & tight; no writings; no markings noted. Text block lightly foxed in places. Contains a center section of black & white glossy photographs of 8 leaves/16 pages. 783 numbered pages. Dust jacket in very good condition; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, "". . . [A] brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people - the Children - who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. Magisterial in scope, with a strong you-are-there quality.. . . a powerful book about one of the most dramatic moments in recent American history. . .""
Synopsis
DAVID HALBERSTAM graduated from Harvard, where he had served as managing editor of the daily Harvard Crimson. It was 1955, a year after the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools. Halberstam went south and began his career as the one reporter on the West Point, Mississippi, Daily Times Leader. He was fired after ten months there and went to work for The Nashville Tennessean. When the sit-ins broke out in Nashville in February 1960, he was assigned to the story as principal reporter. He joined The New York Times later that year, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his early reports from Vietnam. He has received every other major journalistic award, and is a member of the Society of American Historians. His previous nine books have all been bestsellers. David Halberstam has been called "this generation's equivalent of Theodore White and John Gunther" by The Boston Globe. Of David Halberstam's books, the critics have said about The Best and the Brightest , "a rich, entertaining and profound reading experience" (The New York Times); about The Powers That Be , "moves with all the speed and grace of a fine novel" (Chicago Tribune); about The Reckoning , "Halberstam manages to write business history with an investigator's skill and a novelist's flair" (The Washington Post); about The Fifties , "sinfully entertaining" (Newsweek); about The Breaks of the Game , "the best book [he] has written" (The Washington Post); about The Amateurs , "one of the best books ever written about a sport" (Newsweek); about Summer of '49 , "dazzling...a celebration of a heroic age" (The New York Times); about October 1964 , "masterful...memorable" (The Washington Post). From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001420
- Title
- The Children
- Author
- Halberstam, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679415610
- ISBN 13
- 9780679415619
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Sociology and Culture, African Americans - Civil rights - History -20th Century, Civil rights movements - United State - History -20th Century, Civil rights workers - United States - Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-American Studies; Sociology & Culture;
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Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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