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Murray Kempton

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.

The New Equality

All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons

February 6, 1997 issue

Million Dollar Legs

Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer

by Edward Jay Epstein

November 14, 1996 issue

The Beat of War

Reporting World War II, Part One: American Journalism 1938-1944; Part Two: American Journalism 1944-1946

February 15, 1996 issue

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