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Also by David Halberstam:

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Breaking News, June 2007
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Firehouse, May 2003
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Playing for Keeps, February 2000
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The Fifties, May 1994
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The Best and the Brightest, November 1993
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Firehouse
David Halberstam

Hyperion
May 2003
On Sale: May 21, 2003
208 pages
ISBN: 0786888512
EAN: 9780786888511
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction

Firehouse is a book that will move readers as few others have in our time. Through the kind of intimate portraits that are Halberstam's trademark, we watch a typical day in a firehouse unfold-the men called to duty, while their families wait anxiously for news of them. In addition, we come to understand the culture of the firehouse itself; why gifted men do this and why in so many instances they are eager to follow in their father's footsteps and serve in so dangerous a profession-why, more than anything else, it is not just a job, but a calling as well. This is journalism-as-history at its best, the story of what happens when one small institution gets caught in an apocalyptic day.

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