Summer of '49: The Yankees and the Red Sox in Postwar America (51 page)

Halberstam and his friends James T. Wooten (in the poncho), a
New York Times
and ABC reporter, along with Richard C. Steadman and Gerry Krovatin in Nevis in the early 1990s.

Novelist John Burnham Schwartz (
Reservation Road
) and Halberstam in Nantucket in the mid-1990s.

Halberstam took an interest in rowing because of his work on
The Amateurs
, a study of four rowers striving for a place on the US Olympic team, published in 1996.

Halberstam and friends.

Halberstam, second from right, on a
New York Times
panel. Journalist Dexter Filkins (
The Forever War
) is to his right, discussing the Iraq war. This is one of the last photos of Halberstam before his death in 2007.

A memorandum written for Halberstam following his fatal car accident in 2007.

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