David Halberstam is the writer I miss the most.

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Is there anybody who could outwrite, outwit, or outstature David Halberstam?

He was so incredible and outstanding, I actually think he was murdered because he was an unrivalled giant.

This world is too cruel and too heartless, to be able to withstand a man like Halberstam -he was biger than Obama --but that's just MY opinion.


I think the guy would have lived to the ripe old age of 97, if he wasn't killed.

What a wasted talent... or, who wasted that talent?


Forget about my delusions, just talk about the man and his skills, I would like to hear what other writers have to say, about David Halberstam !
 

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I have vague memories of him as a reporter for The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville. He would often come back to be on political panels and things like that.

If you're interested, I can probably find an online audio file of his appearance(s) on the PBS television program A Word on Words.
 
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I sure am.

But most of all, I would like a good writer to write a good book about him -a great biogropher like Donald Spoto or a historian with the skills of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

I think it would make a blockbuster.
 

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David Halberstam died in a traffic accident. His brother Michael was the one who was murdered.

But David was indeed amazing.
 

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This summer, I read his book about the 50s, the decade of my youth. He had some truly amazing stuff in there about the post-WWII culture in America, politics, and the advent of the "new" technologies that have been with us ever since. I enjoyed his style and "voice" as he dealt with the various topics. Having been born in 1950, I felt as though he was presenting me with a lot of background of things I was too young to fathom; filling in the empty spaces, so to speak.