What drives these men to endure a physical pain known to no other sport? Who are they? Where do they come from? How do they regard themselves and their competitors? What have they sacrificed, and what inner demons have they appeased? In answering these questions, David Halberstam takes as his focus the 1984 single sculls trials in Princeton. While other athletes are earning fortunes in salaries and or endorseme*nts, the oarsmen gain fame only with each other and strive without any hope of financial reward.
This time he has taken for his subject the dramatic and special world of amateur rowing. One of the best books ever written about a sport.’ Walter Clemons Newsweek’A PENETRATING, FASCINATING AND REMARKABLY SUSPENSEFUL NARRATIVE.’ David Guy Chicago TribuneIn The Amateurs, David Halberstam once again displays the unique brand of reportage, both penetrating and supple, that distinguished his bestselling The Best and the Brightest and October 1964.
Paley ‘Time’ magazine and its cofounder Henry Luce the ‘Washington Post’ and successive publishers Philip Graham and his wife, Katherine and, the ‘Los Angeles Times’ and publishers Norman Chandler and his son, Otis. He tells the story through vivid, intimate portraits of the men, women, and politics behind four key media organizations: CBS and its board chairman William S.
Beginning with FDR’s masterful use of radio to establish the sense of a personal, benevolently paternal relationship with the American people and culminating in the discovery and coverage of the Watergate break in, Halberstam tracks the firm establishment of the media as a potent means of shaping both public opinion and public policy. Crackling with the personalities, conflicts, and ambitions that transformed the media from something that followed the news to something that formed it, ‘ The Powers That Be‘ is David Halberstam’s forceful account of the rise of modern media as an instrument of political power, published here with a new introduction by the author.
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