October 1964.

HALBERSTAM, David.

Item Number: 144276

New York: Villard Books, 1994.

First edition of the author’s compelling account of the 1964 World Series between the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, “For Sandy and Virginia with love David July 26, 1994.” The recipient, American television journalist Sander Vanocur served as White House correspondent and national political correspondent for NBC News in the 1960s and early 1970s. He covered the Kennedy-Nixon debates in 1960 and, as White House correspondent during the Kennedy administration, was one of the first reporters to publicly ask Kennedy to justify the failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Vanocur also dubbed Kennedy’s coterie the “Irish mafia.” After leaving NBC in 1971, Vanocur worked for PBS and as a television writer for The Washington Post. He joined ABC News in 1977 and worked there until 1991, holding various positions. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bradford Foltz. Jacket illustration by Will Hillenbrand.

"Superb reporting...Incisive analysis...You know from the start that Halberstam is going to focus on a large human canvas...One of the many joys of this book is the humanity with which Halberstam explores the characters as well as the talents of the players, coaches and managers. These are not demigods of summer but flawed, believable human beings who on occasion can rise to peaks of heroism" (Chicago Sun-Times)