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Friends Push Halberstam's 'Coldest Winter'

NPR

Published September 25, 2007 at 6:00 AM EDT

Five months after David Halberstam's death in a car accident, some of the journalist's close friends and colleagues band together to publicize his final book: The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War. Will Schwalbe, editor-in-chief of Hyperion Books, speaks with Renee Montagne.

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'When I Think of You' could be a ripped-from-the-headlines Hollywood romance

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