Murray Kempton (1917–1997)

Author of Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties

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Works by Murray Kempton

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Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties (1955) 165 copies, 1 review

Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events (1994) 59 copies

The Briar Patch (1973) 21 copies

America Comes of Middle Age (1963) 11 copies

Going Around: Selected Journalism (2025) 7 copies

Briar patch: the people of the state of New York v. Lumumba Shakur et al 2 copies

Vanity Fair Magazine - January 1984: Hanna Schygulla, Olympic Stars by Annie Leibovitz (1984) 1 copy

The Briar Patch, The People of the State of New York v. Lumumba Shakur et al. (Notable Trials Library) 1 copy

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Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Contributor — 359 copies, 4 reviews

Reporting Civil Rights, Part 1: American Journalism 1941-1963 (2003) — Contributor — 258 copies

Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Contributor — 240 copies

The Best American Sports Writing of the Century (1999) — Contributor — 199 copies, 1 review

An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 145 copies, 1 review

Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Contributor — 108 copies

Trials of the Resistance (1970) — Introduction — 29 copies

The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Contributor — 25 copies

Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism in the American Soul (2002) — Contributor — 25 copies, 1 review

The outside story : how Democrats and Republicans re-elected Reagan (1986) — Foreword — 17 copies

Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Contributor — 14 copies

Law & Disorder: The Chicago Convention and Its Aftermath (1968) — Contributor — 5 copies

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Legal name: Kempton, James Murray
Birthdate: 1917-05-16
Date of death: 1997-05-05
Gender: male
Education: Johns Hopkins University (BA|1939)
Occupations: journalist
editor
Organizations: New York Post
New York World-Telegram and Sun
The New Republic
Newsday
Awards and honors: American Academy of Arts and Letters (1978)
Pulitzer Prize (1985)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
Place of death: New York, New York, USA
Associated Place (for map): New York, USA

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Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties (New York Review Books Classics) by Murray Kempton

I liked the essays on the Pullman Porters and the Detroit auto workers the best. Interesting to read, from today's perspective, an essay written in the 1950s, about Detroit in the 1930s. The essay on women in the socialist movement was about... love? Not so good. Skimmed through some of the less interesting chapters.

Mar 31, 2013