“A good team was simply a group of very disparate athletes who assembled each day from radically different lives and—with luck—for one… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.” — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Theodore Sorensen wrote for [Robert Kennedy's 1968] announcement speech: “At stake is not simply the leadership of our party, and even our own country,… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“For there was no doubt in Bundy’s mind about his ability to handle... the world. The job was not just a happenstance thing; he… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing” — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Day after day we read about them, each new man more brilliant than the last. They were not just an all-star first team, but… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past. — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physically… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“The good reporters of that era, those who were well educated and who were enlightened themselves and worked for enlightened organizations, liked the Kennedys… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“true wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.” — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
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