Murray Kempton
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Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.
From the Review
August 10, 2000: The Brawls of Yesteryear
June 25, 1998: On Frank Sinatra (1915–1998)
June 12, 1997: Once Ain't for Always
March 27, 1997: With Malice Toward Many
Human Rights Watch World Report 1997: Events of 1996
February 6, 1997: The New Equality
All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons
December 19, 1996: The Second Oldest Profession
November 28, 1996: Drugs & the CIA
November 14, 1996: Million Dollar Legs
Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer by Edward Jay Epstein
October 31, 1996: Keeping Arafat Occupied
October 3, 1996: Me, the People
July 11, 1996: The Shadow Saint
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
July 11, 1996: The Nation's Progress
May 23, 1996: The Shame of Lebanon
May 9, 1996: Dying for Life
April 18, 1996: Whose Foreign Policy?
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1995 May)
March 21, 1996: The Republican Implosion
February 15, 1996: The Beat of War
Reporting World War II, Part One:1 American Journalism 1938-1944 Part Two: American Journalism 1944-1946
January 11, 1996: A Mess of Improprieties
Human Rights Watch World Report 1996: Events of 1995
December 21, 1995: The Last Gentleman
November 30, 1995: Heat Lightning
September 21, 1995: Bradley's Escape
July 13, 1995: Notes from Underground
The Secret World of American Communism by Harvey Klehr, by John Earl Haynes, by Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, Russian documents translated by Timothy D. Sergay
May 11, 1995: Business as Usual
April 20, 1995: Home of the Brave
Breaking the Surface by Greg Louganis, by Eric Marcus
April 6, 1995: Narco-Democracy?
February 16, 1995: A Family Affair
December 22, 1994: Happy Endings
November 17, 1994: Downhill Part of the Way
November 3, 1994: Is the Party Over?
October 20, 1994: The Carter Mission
June 9, 1994: Blindness in Haiti
May 26, 1994: Richard Nixon's Revolution
March 24, 1994: A Raisin in the Sun
February 3, 1994: A New Year's Wish
October 21, 1993: Memories of Ellington
June 24, 1993: A Family's Fortune
Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune by David Margolick
April 22, 1993: Truth and El Salvador
March 25, 1993: The Uses of Adversity
Daumier Drawings 26-May 2 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February
Daumier Drawings by Colta Ives, by Margret Stuffmann, by Martin Sonnabend
February 11, 1993: The Jumper
Hoffa a film directed by Danny De Vito, written by David Mamet
January 28, 1993: His Honor
The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958 by Jack Beatty
December 3, 1992: The Last Hurrah
November 19, 1992: A New Colonialism
June 25, 1992: The Democratic Vista
Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy by William Greider
April 23, 1992: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
American Dream a film directed by Barbara Kopple. distributed by Prestige/Miramax
April 9, 1992: Another Case of Multiculturalism
March 5, 1992: Bad Debts
January 30, 1992: The Charms of Terror
The Inner Circle a film by Andrei Konchalovsky
The Inner Circle: An Inside View of Soviet Life Under Stalin by Andrei Konchalovsky, by Alexander Lipkov, translated and edited by Jamey Gambrell
November 7, 1991: The Back of the Bus
October 10, 1991: 'The Best Man'
August 15, 1991: Turn of the Screw
Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton, The CIA's Master Spy Hunter by Tom Mangold
July 18, 1991: The Wake of the Storm
June 27, 1991: The High Cost of Victory
June 13, 1991: Good Housekeeping
February 14, 1991: A Case of Amnesia
September 27, 1990: Seize the Day
August 16, 1990: Invisible Cities
Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde 28–September 4, 1990 an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York June
Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde catalog of the exhibition by Catherine Cooke
July 19, 1990: The Darkening Light
June 14, 1990: Lost in the Cosmic
In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal by Richard Nixon
May 17, 1990: On Sarah Vaughan
April 26, 1990: Soviet Lawyers in New York
March 29, 1990: Beyond Belligerence
February 15, 1990: The Party of Envy
February 1, 1990: Our Man in Panama
January 18, 1990: Keeping Up With the News
December 21, 1989: Mad About Guns
December 7, 1989: Another Dirty Secret
September 28, 1989: The Pizza Is Burning!
Do the Right Thing a movie by Spike Lee
Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint by Spike Lee, with Lisa Jones
June 15, 1989: Why Noriega Wins
June 1, 1989: Admiring Paul Robeson (letter)
April 27, 1989: The Fate of Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson by Martin Bauml Duberman
March 30, 1989: A Tale of Two Governments
March 16, 1989: The GOP Blues
January 19, 1989: Gorbachev in Armenia
December 8, 1988: The Morning After
November 24, 1988: Heart of Darkness
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
October 27, 1988: The Sad Degas
Degas (September 27, 1988–January 8, 1989) An exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
September 29, 1988: The Dukakis Truce
August 18, 1988: The Moscow Convention
July 21, 1988: In Gorbachev's Russia
June 30, 1988: At the Summit
June 2, 1988: The Dedicated Despot
The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition by Athan G. Theoharis, by John Stuart Cox
May 12, 1988: Les Misérables in New York
February 18, 1988: A Time for Jeremiah
November 19, 1987: The Family Business
I Pledge Allegiance…The True Story of the Walkers: An American Spy Family by Howard Blum
November 5, 1987: Casey and Woodward: Who Used Whom?
October 22, 1987: Cheer Up, John Paul II
September 24, 1987: The Price of Peace
August 13, 1987: A Hero's Mission
June 25, 1987: Down a Sinkhole
May 28, 1987: The Appointment of Death
April 9, 1987: The Contract for 'Baby M'
February 26, 1987: A Sad Heart at the Supermarket
Rating America's Corporate Conscience by Steven D. Lydenberg, by Alice Tepper Martin, by Sean O'Brien Strub. the Council on Economic Priorities
January 29, 1987: Leaving Bad Enough Alone
November 20, 1986: Help for 'La Prensa' (letter)
September 25, 1986: Thanks, Shchukin & Morozov
Impressionist to Early Modern Paintings from the USSR: Works from the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Moscow 22–October 5, 1986. an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, August
August 14, 1986: Scenes from Nicaragua
May 8, 1986: Hood's Progress!
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi
April 24, 1986: Marcos' Millions
February 13, 1986: Keeping the Lid On
Four Failures: A Report on the UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights in Chile, Guatemala, Iran and Poland a report from Americas Watch, Asia Watch, and Helsinki Watch
January 30, 1986: Outrageously Normal
Outrageous Misconduct by Paul Brodeur
January 16, 1986: 'I Am a Pencil'
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (November 7, 1985 - January 26, 1986)
June 13, 1985: Parade's End
May 30, 1985: Anniversaries
April 11, 1985: 'The Atlanta Child Murders' (letter)
March 28, 1985: Parade's End
March 14, 1985: Misjudgment at Atlanta
The Atlanta Child Murders written and coproduced for CBS television by Abby Mann
February 28, 1985: The Wind that Blew in Reagan
The New Politics of Inequality by Thomas Byrne Edsall
January 17, 1985: Witness for Westmoreland
October 11, 1984: A Hard Act to Follow
July 19, 1984: A Hard Case
Diaries of Mario M. Cuomo: The Campaign for Governor
February 2, 1984: Mrs. Velasquez and the Politicians
January 19, 1984: The Kennedy Brothers
December 22, 1983: The Good Soldier
Delta Force by Charlie A Beckwith Col. USA (Ret.), by Donald Knox
December 8, 1983: Pharisees (letter)
October 27, 1983: Dishonorably Discharged
The Rosenberg File: A Search for the Truth by Ronald Radosh, by Joyce Milton
July 21, 1983: Correzione (letter)
April 14, 1983: Mussolini in Concert
March 31, 1983: Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
February 17, 1983: The Great Lobbyist
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
Lyndon B. Johnson: A Memoir by George Reedy
October 7, 1982: A Genius of Journalism
Mussolini by Denis Mack Smith
Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-1941: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy's Last War by MacGregor Knox
Mussolini by Anthony James Joes
July 15, 1982: General Galtieri's Case
April 29, 1982: A Guide to El Salvador
Enemy Colleagues: A Reading of the Salvadoran Tragedy by Gabriel Zaid
April 15, 1982: The Kindly Stranger
FDR, 1882-1945: A Centenary Remembrance by Joseph Alsop
March 18, 1982: Jane Alpert's Defense (letter)
January 21, 1982: Bombs Away
Growing Up Underground by Jane Alpert
December 17, 1981: 'Prince of the City' (letter)
November 19, 1981: The Unraveling of Reagan?
October 22, 1981: Mark Chapman's Family
October 22, 1981: The Young Pretender
Prince of the City directed by Sidney Lumet, screenplay by Sidney Lumet, by Jay Presson Allen
September 24, 1981: The UN Tango
September 24, 1981: The Message of the Insider
A Life in Our Times: Memoirs by John Kenneth Galbraith
July 16, 1981: On Cardinal Wyszynski
June 11, 1981: Saving a Whale
A Choice of Days: Essays from "Happy Days," "Newspaper Days," and "Heathen Days," by H.L. Mencken, selected and introduced by Edward L. Galligan
On Mencken edited by John Dorsey
The Young Mencken: The Best of His Work collected by Carl Bode
The American Scene: A Reader by H.L. Mencken, edited by Huntington Cairns
H.L. Mencken on Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe edited by Malcolm Moos
Letters of H.L. Mencken edited by Guy J. Forgue
A Mencken Chrestomathy edited and annotated by H.L. Mencken
February 19, 1981: The Curse of the Guthries
Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie
"Woody Guthrie, The Library of Congress Recordings" recorded by Alan Lomax
September 25, 1980: Winners and Losers at the 'Times'
Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times by Harrison E. Salisbury
February 22, 1979: The Pessimist
The Hoffa Wars: Teamsters, Rebels, Politicians, and the Mob by Dan E. Moldea
The Teamsters by Steven Brill
June 10, 1976: Witnesses
Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman
September 19, 1974: A Curious Politician
Forest Hills Diary: The Crisis of Low-Income Housing by Mario Matthew Cuomo, with a preface by Jimmy Breslin, an afterword by Richard Sennett
April 4, 1974: The Trouble With Harry (and Henry)
The Price of Vision: The Diary of Henry A. Wallace 1942-1946 edited by John Morton Blum
Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman by Merle Miller
November 15, 1973: Discovering America
Burr: A Novel by Gore Vidal
February 8, 1973: Blue Collar Blues
Where Have All the Robots Gone?: Worker Dissatisfaction in the 70s by Harold L. Sheppard, by Neal Q. Herrick
The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett, by Jonathan Cobb
The Company and the Union: The "Civilized Relationship" of the General Motors Corporation and the United Auto Workers by William Serrin
Bitter Wages: Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Disease and Injury on the Job by Joseph A. Page, by Mary-Win O'Brien
Work in America: Report of a Special Task Force to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
June 29, 1972: What a Problem!
Bittersweet Encounter: The Afro-American and the American Jew by Robert G. Weisbord, by Arthur Stein
The Negroes and the Jews by Leonora E. Berson
No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
January 27, 1972: Nixon Wins!
Our Gang by Philip Roth
June 17, 1971: Free at Last?
May 20, 1971: Son of Pinkerton
Strikers, Communists, Tramps and Detectives by Allan Pinkerton
J. Edgar Hoover Speaks Concerning Communism compiled and edited by James G. Bales
The Masked War by William J. Burns
May 6, 1971: Tom Hayden Defense (letter)
May 6, 1971: Below the Bench
Decision by Richard Harris
To the Victor: Political Patronage from the Clubhouse to the White House by Martin Tolchin, by Susan Tolchin
April 8, 1971: The Right People and the Wrong Times
Don't Blame the People by Robert Cirino
The Information Machines by Ben H. Bagdikian
The Image Empire by Eric Barnouw
My Life and The Times by Turner Catledge
The Last of the Giants by C.L. Sulzberger
April 8, 1971: Alive! (letter)
March 11, 1971: Truman and the Beast
The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate by Robert Griffith
The Politics of Loyalty: The White House and the Communist Issue, 1946-1952 by Alan D. Harper
Seeds of Repression: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of McCarthyism by Athan Theoharis
February 11, 1971: Jock-Sniffing
Lombardi: Winning Is the Only Thing edited by Jerry Kramer
Saturday's America by Dan Jenkins
Confessions of a Dirty Ballplayer by Johnny Sample, by Fred Hamilton, by Sonny Schwartz
Ball Four by Jim Bouton
Out of Their League by Dave Meggyesy
Player of the Year by Roman Gabriel, by Bob Oates
The City Game by Pete Axthelm
January 7, 1971: Three Who Didn't Make a Revolution
Trial by Tom Hayden
We Have Been Invaded by the 21st Century by David McReynolds
Revolutionary Nonviolence by Dave Dellinger
November 19, 1970: A Feelthy Commission
The Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography the text with Dissents and an Introduction by Clive Barnes
November 19, 1970: Bibliography (letter)
November 5, 1970: Cops
People vs. Butcher by Eliot Asinof
Police Power by Paul Chevigny
Varieties of Police Behavior by James Q. Wilson
The Police: A Sociological Study of Law, Custom and Morality by William A. Westley
November 5, 1970: Workers' Defense League (letter)
October 22, 1970: Senator Goodell (letter)
September 24, 1970: The Agony in the Garden
September 3, 1970: Becker Case Reopened!
Against the Evidence: The Becker-Rosenthal Affair by Andy Logan
August 13, 1970: The Damned
A Nation in Torment: The Great American Depression, 1929-1939 by Edward Robb Ellis
Hard Times by Studs Terkel
The Block by Herb Goro
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory by Anita Bryant
July 23, 1970: The Former Arthur Goldberg
July 23, 1970: Sticking to the Union (letter)
July 2, 1970: Newark: Keeping Up with LeRoi Jones
June 4, 1970: From the City of Lies
May 7, 1970: The Panthers on Trial
April 9, 1970: Sticking to the Union
UE Guide to Automation and the New Technology United Electrical Workers
Union Man: The Life of A Labor Statesman by David J. McDonald
Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker 1933-1941 by Irving Bernstein
American Labor: The Twentieth Century edited by Jerold S. Auerbach
Bread and Roses Too: Studies of the Wobblies by Joseph Robert Conlin
American Labor and United States Foreign Policy by Ronald Radosh
March 12, 1970: Colonel Agnew
January 29, 1970: A Narodnik from Lynbrook
Odyssey of a Friend: Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961 by Whittaker Chambers, edited with Notes by William F. Buckley Jr., Foreword by Ralph De Toledano
January 1, 1970: Wrong Impression (letter)
December 18, 1969: Washington After Dark
November 20, 1969: Childe Lindsay
Governing the City: Challenges and Options for New York edited by Robert H. Connery, edited by Demetrios Caraley
A Political Life: The Education of John V. Lindsay by Nat Hentoff
October 23, 1969: A Letter from the Wasteland
September 11, 1969: Crime Does Not Pay
The Discourses of Simone Rizzo De-Cavalcante, 1962 to 1965 assembled by Special Agents William F. Nugent, by J. Arthur Brudnicki, by George L. Kraus, by Ronald B. Hardee, by James P. Hughes, by E. Lynch, Thomas, by James J. Verdino, by Bertie L. Wriston, by John L. Wilgus, by Edward J. Lunetti, by Raymond J. Bott, by E. Davis Porter, by Robert E. Mangan, by Hugh M. Billingsley, by Robert J. Van Tersch, by Roland H. Broyles
Theft of the Nation by Donald R. Cressey
The Grim Reapers by Ed Reid
July 10, 1969: The Black Manifesto
April 10, 1969: At King Lyndon's Court
The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson by Eric F. Goldman
August 1, 1968: Local Cause (letter)
May 9, 1968: Violence in Oakland (letter)
July 13, 1967: Regis Debray (letter)
June 15, 1967: K. Marx, Reporter
The American Journalism of Marx and Engels edited by Henry M. Christman, Introduction by Charles Blitzer
January 26, 1967: Growing Old With the New Left
A Prophetic Minority by Jack Newfield
Steady Work by Irving Howe
The Fifteenth Ward and the Great Society by William Lee Miller
The Airtight Cage by Joseph P. Lyford
October 28, 1965: A Good Man is Hard to Find
Lindsay, A Man for Tomorrow by Daniel E. Batton
John V. Lindsay and the Silk Stocking Story by Casper Citron
John V. Lindsay—Less than Meets the Eye by Noel E. Parmentel Jr.
October 14, 1965: Uptown
Dark Ghetto by Kenneth Clark
Adam Clayton Powell and the Politics of Race by Neil Hickey, by Ed Edwin
July 1, 1965: Notes from the Underground
New York Proclaimed by V.S. Pritchett, with photographs by Evelyn Hofer
April 8, 1965: Victims
Inquisition in Eden by Alvah Bessie
Fear on Trial by John Henry Faulk
Only You, Dick Daring by Merle Miller, by Evan Rhodes
Equal Time by Newton Minow
November 5, 1964: The People's Choice
My Hope for America by Lyndon B. Johnson
From New York Review Books
 | Part of Our Time Through brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that turbulent decade to life. |
Books by Murray Kempton
Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties (1998)
Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events (1994)
The Briar Patch; The People of the State of New York V. Lumumba Shakur et al (1973)