Monday, April 23, 2007
Author Obit: David Halberstam (10 April 1934 – 23 April 2007)
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and historian David Halberstam died today as passenger in a car crash in San Francisco. His books include Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era, The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be, Summer of '49 about the Red Sox and Yankees, and Bill Belichick: The Education of a Coach.Labels: deaths, halberstam, historian, obituary
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Maine Writers Index
New on the Maine Writers Index is Ardis Cameron, South Portland resident, professor of American and New England Studies at the University of Southern Maine, and noted labor historian.Labels: ardis cameron, cameron, historian, maine, maine writer, maine writers index, mwi
Thursday, March 01, 2007
RIP Arthur Schlesinger, 15 Oct. 1917 - 28 Feb. 2007
Pulitzer Prize- and the National Book Award-winning historian Arthur Schlesinger died at age 89 of a heart attack last night: "Mr. Schlesinger saw life as a walk through history. He wrote that he could not stroll down Fifth Avenue without wondering how the street and the people on it would have looked a hundred years ago."
More at NYT (with links to reviews of seven of his histories/biographies), WaPo, the Guardian.
Labels: historian, obituary, schlesinger
