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.
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The Brawls of Yesteryear
August 10, 2000
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On Frank Sinatra (1915–1998)
June 25, 1998
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Once Ain’t for Always
June 12, 1997
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With Malice Toward Many
March 27, 1997
Human Rights Watch World Report 1997: Events of 1996
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The New Equality
February 6, 1997
All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons
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The Second Oldest Profession
December 19, 1996
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Drugs & the CIA
November 28, 1996
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Million Dollar Legs
November 14, 1996
Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer by Edward Jay Epstein
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Keeping Arafat Occupied
October 31, 1996
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Me, the People
October 3, 1996
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The Shadow Saint
July 11, 1996
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
by Christopher Hitchens
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The Nation’s Progress
July 11, 1996
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The Shame of Lebanon
May 23, 1996
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Dying for Life
May 9, 1996
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Whose Foreign Policy?
April 18, 1996
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1995 May)
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The Republican Implosion
March 21, 1996
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The Beat of War
February 15, 1996
Reporting World War II, Part One:1 American Journalism 1938-1944 Part Two: American Journalism 1944-1946
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A Mess of Improprieties
January 11, 1996
Human Rights Watch World Report 1996: Events of 1995
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The Last Gentleman
December 21, 1995
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Heat Lightning
November 30, 1995
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Bradley’s Escape
September 21, 1995
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Notes from Underground
July 13, 1995
The Secret World of American Communism by Harvey Klehr, by John Earl Haynes, by Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, Russian documents translated by Timothy D. Sergay
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Working Girl
June 8, 1995
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Business as Usual
May 11, 1995
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Home of the Brave
April 20, 1995
Breaking the Surface by Greg Louganis, by Eric Marcus
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Narco-Democracy?
April 6, 1995
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A Family Affair
February 16, 1995
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Happy Endings
December 22, 1994
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Downhill Part of the Way
November 17, 1994
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Is the Party Over?
November 3, 1994
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The Carter Mission
October 20, 1994
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Blindness in Haiti
June 9, 1994
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Richard Nixon’s Revolution
May 26, 1994
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A Raisin in the Sun
March 24, 1994
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A New Year’s Wish
February 3, 1994
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Memories of Ellington
October 21, 1993
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A Family’s Fortune
June 24, 1993
Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune by David Margolick
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Truth and El Salvador
April 22, 1993
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The Uses of Adversity
March 25, 1993
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
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The Jumper
February 11, 1993
Hoffa a film directed by Danny De Vito, written by David Mamet
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His Honor
January 28, 1993
The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 18741958 by Jack Beatty
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The Last Hurrah
December 3, 1992
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A New Colonialism
November 19, 1992
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The Democratic Vista
June 25, 1992
Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy
by William Greider
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
April 23, 1992
American Dream a film directed by Barbara Kopple. distributed by Prestige/Miramax
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Another Case of Multiculturalism
April 9, 1992
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Bad Debts
March 5, 1992
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The Charms of Terror
January 30, 1992
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
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The Back of the Bus
November 7, 1991
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‘The Best Man’
October 10, 1991
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Turn of the Screw
August 15, 1991
Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton, The CIA’s Master Spy Hunter by Tom Mangold
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The Wake of the Storm
July 18, 1991
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The High Cost of Victory
June 27, 1991
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Good Housekeeping
June 13, 1991
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A Case of Amnesia
February 14, 1991
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Seize the Day
September 27, 1990
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Invisible Cities
August 16, 1990
Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde 28September 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
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The Darkening Light
July 19, 1990
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Lost in the Cosmic
June 14, 1990
In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal by Richard Nixon
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On Sarah Vaughan
May 17, 1990
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Soviet Lawyers in New York
April 26, 1990
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Beyond Belligerence
March 29, 1990
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The Party of Envy
February 15, 1990
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Our Man in Panama
February 1, 1990
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Keeping Up With the News
January 18, 1990
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Mad About Guns
December 21, 1989
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Another Dirty Secret
December 7, 1989
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The Pizza Is Burning!
September 28, 1989
Do the Right Thing a movie by Spike Lee
Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint by Spike Lee, with Lisa Jones
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Why Noriega Wins
June 15, 1989
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Admiring Paul Robeson
June 1, 1989
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The Fate of Paul Robeson
April 27, 1989
Paul Robeson by Martin Bauml Duberman
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A Tale of Two Governments
March 30, 1989
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The GOP Blues
March 16, 1989
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Gorbachev in Armenia
January 19, 1989
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The Morning After
December 8, 1988
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Heart of Darkness
November 24, 1988
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
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The Sad Degas
October 27, 1988
Degas (September 27, 1988January 8, 1989) An exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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The Dukakis Truce
September 29, 1988
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The Moscow Convention
August 18, 1988
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In Gorbachev’s Russia
July 21, 1988
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At the Summit
June 30, 1988
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The Dedicated Despot
June 2, 1988
The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition by Athan G. Theoharis, by John Stuart Cox
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Les Misérables in New York
May 12, 1988
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A Time for Jeremiah
February 18, 1988
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The Family Business
November 19, 1987
I Pledge Allegiance The True Story of the Walkers: An American Spy Family by Howard Blum
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Casey and Woodward: Who Used Whom?
November 5, 1987
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Cheer Up, John Paul II
October 22, 1987
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The Price of Peace
September 24, 1987
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A Hero’s Mission
August 13, 1987
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Down a Sinkhole
June 25, 1987
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The Appointment of Death
May 28, 1987
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The Contract for ‘Baby M’
April 9, 1987
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A Sad Heart at the Supermarket
February 26, 1987
Rating America’s Corporate Conscience by Steven D. Lydenberg, by Alice Tepper Martin, by Sean O'Brien Strub. the Council on Economic Priorities
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Leaving Bad Enough Alone
January 29, 1987
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Help for ‘La Prensa’
November 20, 1986
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Thanks, Shchukin & Morozov
September 25, 1986
Impressionist to Early Modern Paintings from the USSR: Works from the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Moscow 22October 5, 1986. an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, August
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Scenes from Nicaragua
August 14, 1986
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Hood’s Progress!
May 8, 1986
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi
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Marcos’ Millions
April 24, 1986
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Keeping the Lid On
February 13, 1986
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
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Outrageously Normal
January 30, 1986
Outrageous Misconduct
by Paul Brodeur
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‘I Am a Pencil’
January 16, 1986
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (November 7,1985 - January 26, 1986)
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Parade’s End
June 13, 1985
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Anniversaries
May 30, 1985
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‘The Atlanta Child Murders’
April 11, 1985
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Parade’s End
March 28, 1985
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Misjudgment at Atlanta
March 14, 1985
The Atlanta Child Murders written and coproduced for CBS television by Abby Mann
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The Wind that Blew in Reagan
February 28, 1985
The New Politics of Inequality
by Thomas Byrne Edsall
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Witness for Westmoreland
January 17, 1985
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A Hard Act to Follow
October 11, 1984
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A Hard Case
July 19, 1984
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Mrs. Velasquez and the Politicians
February 2, 1984
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The Kennedy Brothers
January 19, 1984
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The Good Soldier
December 22, 1983
Delta Force by Charlie A Beckwith Col. USA (Ret.), by Donald Knox
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Pharisees
December 8, 1983
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Dishonorably Discharged
October 27, 1983
The Rosenberg File: A Search for the Truth by Ronald Radosh, by Joyce Milton
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Correzione
July 21, 1983
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Mussolini in Concert
April 14, 1983
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Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
March 31, 1983
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The Great Lobbyist
February 17, 1983
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
Lyndon B. Johnson: A Memoir by George Reedy
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A Genius of Journalism
October 7, 1982
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
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General Galtieri’s Case
July 15, 1982
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A Guide to El Salvador
April 29, 1982
Enemy Colleagues: A Reading of the Salvadoran Tragedy by Gabriel Zaid
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The Kindly Stranger
April 15, 1982
FDR, 1882-1945: A Centenary Remembrance by Joseph Alsop
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Jane Alpert’s Defense
March 18, 1982
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Bombs Away
January 21, 1982
Growing Up Underground
by Jane Alpert
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‘Prince of the City’
December 17, 1981
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The Unraveling of Reagan?
November 19, 1981
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Mark Chapman’s Family
October 22, 1981
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The Young Pretender
October 22, 1981
Prince of the City directed by Sidney Lumet, screenplay by Sidney Lumet, by Jay Presson Allen
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The UN Tango
September 24, 1981
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The Message of the Insider
September 24, 1981
A Life in Our Times: Memoirs by John Kenneth Galbraith
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On Cardinal Wyszynski
July 16, 1981
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Saving a Whale
June 11, 1981
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
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The Curse of the Guthries
February 19, 1981
Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie
“Woody Guthrie, The Library of Congress Recordings” recorded by Alan Lomax
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Winners and Losers at the ‘Times’
September 25, 1980
Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times by Harrison E. Salisbury
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The Pessimist
February 22, 1979
The Hoffa Wars: Teamsters, Rebels, Politicians, and the Mob by Dan E. Moldea
The Teamsters by Steven Brill
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Witnesses
June 10, 1976
Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman
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A Curious Politician
September 19, 1974
Forest Hills Diary: The Crisis of Low-Income Housing by Mario Matthew Cuomo, with a preface by Jimmy Breslin, an afterword by Richard Sennett
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The Trouble With Harry (and Henry)
April 4, 1974
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
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Discovering America
November 15, 1973
Burr: A Novel by Gore Vidal
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Blue Collar Blues
February 8, 1973
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
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What a Problem!
June 29, 1972
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
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Nixon Wins!
January 27, 1972
Our Gang by Philip Roth
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Free at Last?
June 17, 1971
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Son of Pinkerton
May 20, 1971
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
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Tom Hayden Defense
May 6, 1971
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Below the Bench
May 6, 1971
Decision by Richard Harris
To the Victor: Political Patronage from the Clubhouse to the White House by Martin Tolchin, by Susan Tolchin
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The Right People and the Wrong Times
April 8, 1971
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
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Alive!
April 8, 1971
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Truman and the Beast
March 11, 1971
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
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Jock-Sniffing
February 11, 1971
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
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Three Who Didn’t Make a Revolution
January 7, 1971
Trial by Tom Hayden
We Have Been Invaded by the 21st Century by David McReynolds
Revolutionary Nonviolence by Dave Dellinger
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A Feelthy Commission
November 19, 1970
The Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography the text with Dissents and an Introduction by Clive Barnes
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Bibliography
November 19, 1970
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Cops
November 5, 1970
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
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Workers’ Defense League
November 5, 1970
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Senator Goodell
October 22, 1970
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The Agony in the Garden
September 24, 1970
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Becker Case Reopened!
September 3, 1970
Against the Evidence: The Becker-Rosenthal Affair by Andy Logan
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The Damned
August 13, 1970
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
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The Former Arthur Goldberg
July 23, 1970
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Sticking to the Union
July 23, 1970
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Newark: Keeping Up with LeRoi Jones
July 2, 1970
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From the City of Lies
June 4, 1970
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The Panthers on Trial
May 7, 1970
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Sticking to the Union
April 9, 1970
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
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Colonel Agnew
March 12, 1970
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A Narodnik from Lynbrook
January 29, 1970
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
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Wrong Impression
January 1, 1970
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Washington After Dark
December 18, 1969
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Childe Lindsay
November 20, 1969
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
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A Letter from the Wasteland
October 23, 1969
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Crime Does Not Pay
September 11, 1969
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
Theft of the Nation by Donald R. Cressey
The Grim Reapers by Ed Reid
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The Black Manifesto
July 10, 1969
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At King Lyndon’s Court
April 10, 1969
The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson by Eric F. Goldman
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Local Cause
August 1, 1968
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Violence in Oakland
May 9, 1968
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Regis Debray
July 13, 1967
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K. Marx, Reporter
June 15, 1967
The American Journalism of Marx and Engels edited by Henry M. Christman, Introduction by Charles Blitzer
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Growing Old With the New Left
January 26, 1967
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
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A Good Man is Hard to Find
October 28, 1965
Lindsay, A Man for Tomorrow by Daniel E. Batton
John V. Lindsay and the Silk Stocking Story by Casper Citron
John V. LindsayLess than Meets the Eye by Noel E. Parmentel Jr.
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Uptown
October 14, 1965
Dark Ghetto
by Kenneth Clark
Adam Clayton Powell and the Politics of Race by Neil Hickey, by Ed Edwin
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Notes from the Underground
July 1, 1965
New York Proclaimed by V.S. Pritchett, with photographs by Evelyn Hofer
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Victims
April 8, 1965
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
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The People’s Choice
November 5, 1964
My Hope for America by Lyndon B. Johnson
