Halberstam: 49 books
Gaga Feminism
Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism
Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies?
In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Jack Halberstam...
The Blind Angel
New Old Chassidic Tales
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Storytelling has always been integral to Chassidism, the mystical Jewish movement that began in the early 18th century and swept across Eastern Europe over the following two centuries. Chassidic tales were not just a means of capturing the imagination of the estimated eleven million Jews for whom...
The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
“Far and away the best book written about Senator Kennedy” from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author (The New York Times).
Structured around the 1968 Democratic presidential campaign, The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy offers an in-depth exploration of Robert...
by David Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
New York Times Bestseller: “A historical overview of the auto industry in the United States and Japan [and] the gradual decline of U.S. manufacturing” (Library Journal).
After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the...
by David Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.
"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”—The New York Times
Using portraits of America’ s flawed policy makers and accounts...
by David Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
This #1 bestselling baseball classic of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is “dazzling . . . heart-stopping . . . A celebration of a vanished heroic age” (The New York Times Book Review).
The summer of 1949: It was baseball’s Golden Age and the year Joe DiMaggio’s New York Yankees were...
The Teammates
A Portrait of a Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
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,...
by David Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
One of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century, Ho Chi Minh was founder of the Indochina Communist Party and its successor, the Viet-Minh, and was president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh,...
In a Queer Time and Place
Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative...
War in a Time of Peace
Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post Cold War America.
Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how the decisions...
by Jack Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground...
The Making of a Quagmire
America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2007
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...
Changing Course
Women's Inspiring Stories of Menopause, Midlife, and Moving Forward
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2004
Perimenopause. Menopause. Midlife.
For the women in Changing Course, these words imply much more than something to "get through" or even as a "silent passage" - it's a time for great self-reflection, exciting adventures, and new beginnings.
Compiled by Yitta Halberstam - the author of...
Holy Brother
Inspiring Stories and Enchanted Tales about Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2002
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach was one of the most original and inspired Jewish personalities of the twentieth century. In this incredible volume, Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum, a devoted student of Reb Shlomo, gathers dozens of stories about this charismatic, loving Jewish leader. The episodes retold here...