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The Breaks of the Game
ISBN: 9781401309725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his ground-breaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote more than 20 books, almost all of them bestsellers. His work has stood the test of time and has become the standard by which all journalists measure themselves. The New York Times bestseller, now with a new introduction The Breaks of the Game focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of...
More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life a...
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96,29 zł |
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The Teammates: A Portrait of Friendship
ISBN: 9780786888672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his ground-breaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote more than 20 books, almost all of them bestsellers. His work has stood the test of time and has become the standard by which all journalists measure themselves.
The Teammates is the profoundly moving story of four great baseball players who have made the passage from sports icons--when they were young... More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life a...
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87,53 zł |
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The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal
ISBN: 9780449910030 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "Astonishing . . . Moving . . . One of the best books ever written about a sport."
*Walter Clemons Newsweek "A PENETRATING, FASCINATING AND REMARKABLY SUSPENSEFUL NARRATIVE." *David Guy Chicago Tribune In 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. This time he has taken for his subject the dramatic and special world of amateur rowing. While other athletes are earning fortunes in salaries and-or endorsements, the oarsmen gain... "Astonishing . . . Moving . . . One of the best books ever written about a sport."
*Walter Clemons Newsweek "A PENETRATING, FASCINATING AN... |
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74,43 zł |
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Ho
ISBN: 9780742559929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam provides a window into traditions and culture that influenced the American war in Vietnam, while highlighting the importance of nationalism in determining the war's outcome.
In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam provides a window into traditions and culture that inf...
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348,61 zł |
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Summer of '49
ISBN: 9780060884260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor David Halberstam returns us to a glorious time when the dreams of a now almost forgotten America rested on the crack of a bat. The year was 1949, and a war-weary nation turned from the battlefields to the ball fields in search of new heroes. It was a summer that marked the beginning of a sports rivalry unequaled in the annals of athletic competition. The awesome New York Yankees and the indomitable Boston Red Sox were fighting for supremacy of baseball's American League, and an aging Joe DiMaggio and a brash,... With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor David Halberstam returns us to a glorious time when the dreams of a now a... |
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83,15 zł |
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Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam
ISBN: 9781401309909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "Sometimes sports mirrors society, sometimes it allows us to understand the larger society a little better. But mostly, it is a world of entertainment of talented and driven young men and women who do certain things with both skill and passion."
--David Halberstam David Halberstam was a distinguished journalist and historian of American politics. He was also a sports writer. Everything They Had brings together for the first time his articles from newspapers and magazines, a wide-ranging collection edited by Glenn Stout, selected over the full scope of Halberstam's five... "Sometimes sports mirrors society, sometimes it allows us to understand the larger society a little better. But mostly, it is a world of entertainment...
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137,87 zł |
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The Education of a Coach
ISBN: 9781401308797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his ground-breaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote more than 20 books, almost all of them bestsellers. His work has stood the test of time and has become the standard by which all journalists measure themselves.
Bill Belichick's thirty-one years in the NFL have been marked by amazing success--most recently with the New England Patriots. In this... More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life a...
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121,32 zł |
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Ho
ISBN: 9780742559936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam provides a window into traditions and culture that influenced the American war in Vietnam, while highlighting the importance of nationalism in determining the war's outcome.
In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam provides a window into traditions and culture that inf...
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138,34 zł |
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The Powers That Be
ISBN: 9780252069413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Gives an account of power at work in America.
Gives an account of power at work in America.
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105,08 zł |
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Firehouse
ISBN: 9781401300050 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "If you have tears, prepare to shed them."
--Frank McCourt "In the firehouse, the men not only live and eat with each other, they play sports together, go off to drink together, help repair one another's houses, and, most important, share terrifying risks; their loyalties to each other must, by the demands of the dangers they face, be instinctive and absolute." So writes David Halberstam, one of America's most distinguished reporters and historians, in this stunning New York Times bestselling book about Engine 40, Ladder 35, located on the West Side of... "If you have tears, prepare to shed them."
--Frank McCourt "In the firehouse, the men not only live and eat with each other, they play... |
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182,06 zł |
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
ISBN: 9780786888627 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."---The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another pivotal moment in our history: the Korean War. Halberstam considered The Coldest Winter his most accomplished work, the culmination of forty-five years of writing about America's postwar...
"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."---The New York Times David Hal...
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87,53 zł |
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The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era
ISBN: 9780742560086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal supplies crucial background information that was unavailable in the mid-1960s when the book was written. With its numerous firsthand recollections of life in the war zone, The Making of a Quagmire penetrates to the essence of what went wrong in Vietnam. Although its focus is the Kennedy era, its analysis of the blunders...
Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign pol...
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138,34 zł |
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The Fifties
ISBN: 9780449909331 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick and Mac McDonald and Ray Kroc, who mass-produced the American hamburger; Kemmons Wilson, who placed his Holiday Inns along the nation's roadsides; U-2 pilot Gary Francis Powers; Grace Metalious, who wrote Peyton Place; and "Goody" Pincus, who led...
The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining ...
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96,33 zł |
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October 1964
ISBN: 9780449983676 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE BEST SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR -October 1964 should be a hit with old-time baseball fans, who'll relish the opportunity to relive that year's to-die-for World Series, when the dynastic but aging New York Yankees squared off against the upstart St. Louis Cardinals. It should be a hit with younger students of the game, who'll eat up the vivid portrayals of legends like Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris of the Yankees and Bob Gibson and Lou Brock of the Cardinals. Most of all, however, David Halberstam's new book should be a hit with anyone interested in... THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE BEST SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR -October 1964 should be a hit with old-time baseball fans, who'll relish the oppo... |
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91,95 zł |
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The Best and the Brightest
ISBN: 9780449908709 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times
" The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation's search for its idealistic soul. THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller." -- The Boston Globe "Deeply moving . . . We cannot help but feel the compelling power of this narrative . . . . Dramatic and tragic, a chain of events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying illusions and myths, terror and violence,... "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times
" The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vie... |
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100,71 zł |
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American Photobooth
ISBN: 9780393330762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "That a perceptive, dedicated, and sensitive artist like Nakki Goranin has rescued from oblivion so many amazing self-portraits created by amateurs confronting themselves in the fleeting privacy of humble photobooths is yet another miracle for which we can be grateful."--from the foreword by David Haberstich Generally relegated to the realm of kitsch, the history and cultural importance of the photobooth has long been overlooked. Here, Nakki Goranin documents the invention, technological evolution, and commercial history of the photobooth with extensive illustrations culled from twenty-five...
"That a perceptive, dedicated, and sensitive artist like Nakki Goranin has rescued from oblivion so many amazing self-portraits created by amateurs co...
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132,75 zł |
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A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti
ISBN: 9781565121928 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) With a foreword by David Halberstam. He spoke out against player trading. He banned Pete Rose from baseball for gambling. He even asked sports fans to clean up their acts. Bart Giamatti was baseball's Renaissance man and its commissioner. In A GREAT AND GLORIOUS GAME, a collection of spirited, incisive essays, Giamatti reflects on the meaning of the game. Baseball, for him, was a metaphor for life. He artfully argues that baseball is much more than an American "pastime." "Baseball is about going home," he wrote, "and how hard it is to get there and how driven is our need." And in his powerful...
With a foreword by David Halberstam. He spoke out against player trading. He banned Pete Rose from baseball for gambling. He even asked sports fans to...
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87,53 zł |
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Tough Talk: How I Fought for Writers, Comics, Bigots, and the American Way
ISBN: 9780812991055 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The boisterousfreedom promised by the First Amendment is both the heart of American experiment and the fissure along which it divides itself.Those who would fight freedom's enemies, from political correctness to corporate intimidation to outright censorship, face powerful adversaries.But they also have a potent weapon at their disposal: good, old-fashioned talk--tough talk.And as one of America's leading First Amendment attorneys, Martin Garbus is one of the toughest talkers there is.
Starting with his work on the tam that defended the legendary satirist Lenny Bruce against... The boisterousfreedom promised by the First Amendment is both the heart of American experiment and the fissure along which it divides itself.Those who...
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83,19 zł |
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American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm
ISBN: 9780375760099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A dramatic and moving tribute to the military s unsung heroes, American Patriots tells the story of the black servicemen and women who defended American ideals on the battlefield, even as they faced racism in the ranks and segregation on the home front. Through hundreds of original interviews with veterans of every war since World War I, historic accounts, and photographs, Gail Buckley brings these heroes and their struggles to life. We meet Henry O. Flipper, who withstood silent treatment from his classmates to become the first black graduate of West Point in 1877. And World War II infantry...
A dramatic and moving tribute to the military s unsung heroes, American Patriots tells the story of the black servicemen and women who defended Americ...
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118,22 zł |
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