David Halberstam Goes Home

When I entered graduate school in 1991, I sercretly desired to become the "David Halberstam" of the hip-hop generation. It was my hope that I would write the big social history of the post-Civil Rights era. Of course it was Bakari Kitwana and Jeff Chang who would eventually write those books, but I still always admired Halberstam's work. Nevertheless there's a big book in me about baseball and the black men who played it in the 1970s and David Halberstam will be one of the primary inspirations for it.

Listen to David Halberstam though the years on NPR's Fresh Air