David Halberstam
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"David Halberstam" was an American journalist and historian, known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, the African-American Civil Rights Movement/Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism. He won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1964.

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I think you always go out and do books based on what you're curious about.

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I think I got very lucky on this, ... The Red Sox players of that team just were particularly pleasant. Ted Williams was larger than life and exuberant and contentious and cantankerous, but great fun to be with.

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What happened very quickly was a move away from the bravery of the kids fighting.

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I have no doubt he would have been a huge success no matter what he put his mind to.

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There would be a very nice small book in it about another time and era in America, a kind of sweetness and friendship.

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[DiMaggio] could see it, and he understood completely where Harry Walker might hit the ball, ... Dominic will tell you that he still wonders if he could have gotten Slaughter at third. And Slaughter told him later, 'I never would have come home if you had been out there.' .

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If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

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I am made nervous, as someone who works in the same vineyard, by the idea of inventing himself as a fictional character, ... It seems unnecessary. It seems taking a major liberty. And the problem with it is if you invent the fictional character and you take this liberty, then the reader is going to think what other liberties?

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