April 24, 2007

Over the weekend, one of my favorite writers passed away due to a car accident. While an undergraduate student, I was introduced to the writing world of Mr. David Halberstam. I took a history class for credit about the 1950's of which set the tone for the civil rights movement. The book we used as a textbook was written by Mr. Halberstam entitled "The Fifties" (ISBN# 0517156075). A review from Amazon.com mentions: "This book is a very valuable work, but be cognizant of the fact that it does not fit these events into an overall American history context - there is very little mention of events prior to 1945, and even less of events after 1960. It is a solid primer on the years 1950-1959, and will pique the readers' interest, thus paving the way to read more specialized studies in the future." This is a great loss to the literary/journalism world of writing. One of my favorite hometown journalists wrote a very engaging tribute about Mr. Halberstam who was a friend of his.
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