This is a story about a place in our society where power, money, and talent collide and sometimes corrupt, a place where both national obsessions and naked greed are exposed. Yet he is writing here about far more than just basketball. The tactile authenticity of Halberstam's knowledge of the basketball world is unrivaled. His work has stood the test of time and has become the standard by which all journalists measure themselves. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his groundbreaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote more than 20 books, almost all of them bestsellers.

More than six 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. Urn:oclc:7672823 Scandate 20110906075424 Scanner New York Times bestseller, David Halberstam's The Breaks of the Game focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of the Bill Walton-led Portland Trail Blazers, a team that only three years before had been NBA champions. OL109587W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.05 Pages 486 Ppi 643 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1401305199 Urn:lcp:breaksofgame00halb:epub:6727a1fe-8896-42cb-af1a-a7e7c527e2f7 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier breaksofgame00halb Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t72v3h948 Isbn 0345296257ĩ780345296252 Lccn 81047487 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.4 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary_edition

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Halberstam breaks of the game