The Children
by Halberstam, David
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0449004392
- ISBN 13
- 9780449004395
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Random House, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine / Fine. Quarter bound maroon over ivory boards with copper gilt lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked and square with sharp corners. Dustjacket is bright, price intact with no chips or tears. Mylar protective cover. Brilliant and moving recreation of the early days of the civil rights movement with a focus on eight young activists, including John Lewis, who came of age during that turbulent time. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.
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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Linden Avenue Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10009
- Title
- The Children
- Author
- Halberstam, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0449004392
- ISBN 13
- 9780449004395
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 785
- Size
- 5.51 x 1.76 x 8.22 inches
- Keywords
- History, civil rights, first edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non Fiction; Civil RIghts; American History;
Terms of Sale
Linden Avenue Books
About the Seller
Linden Avenue Books
About Linden Avenue Books
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Frequently asked questions
This Book’s Categories
- Countries & Cultures North America United States
- History Western History United States History
- History Western History Latin American History
- Social Sciences Cultures & Social Groups African American Studies
- Social Sciences Social Issues, Problems & Crime Civil Rights
- Social Sciences Sociology
- Countries & Cultures