sentences:  In 1978 Halberstam wrote a novel, "The Wanting of Levine", about a self-made millionaire real estate investor who becomes the first Jewish U.S. President.In 2017 journalist Ira Stoll described "The Wanting of Levine" as having "most cannily anticipated" the presidency of Donald Trump.On December 5, 1980, Halberstam was shot at his Washington, D.C. home by Bernard C. Welch Jr., a prolific thief and escaped convict who lived in nearby Great Falls, Virginia.