Halberstam Halberstam remembers it well. It was 1966. He was 32 and working in Paris for the New York Times when he read a piece of journalism that would change his life. The article was an Esquire magazine feature on Joe DiMaggio, written by Gay Talese. But it was more than just an insightful observation by Talese of a man who once was king of New York. It was evidence of a new kind of journalism in blossom -- a narrative process that read like a book and gave a reader the feeling that he or she knew the subject personally. "I read that piece and thought, 'I'm getting out of here,'" Halberstam recalls. "I'm getting out of daily jour