Summer of '49
$38.28
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
9 May 2006
Summary
“Dazzling…A celebration of a vanished heroic age and a ‘simpler America’ ” – *New York Times Book Review*
David Halberstam’s classic chronicle of baseball’s most magnificent season, as seen through the battle royal between Joe DiMaggio’s Yankees and Ted Williams’s Red Sox for the hearts of a nation.
The year was 1949, and a war-wearied nation turned from the battlefields to the ball fields in search of new heroes. It was a summer that marked t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780060884260 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0060884266 |
| Author: | David Halberstam |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 9 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 135mm x 201mm |
| Series: | Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
“Hits one out of the park…The pages should go on forever!” - Boston Herald
David Halberstam
David Halberstam was one of America’s most distinguished journalists and historians. He covered the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement and reported for the New York Times on the war in Vietnam. The author of fifteen bestsellers, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his Vietnam reporting. He was killed in a car accident on April 23, 2007, while on his way to an interview for what was to be his next book.
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