{"product_id":"going-around-selected-journalism-paperback","title":"Going Around: Selected Journalism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMurray Kempton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Holter\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Holter\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA definitive collection of writings by the legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Murray Kempton (1917-1997) with a foreword by Darryl Pinckney, gathering dozens of columns, essays, and critiques from publications including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNewsday.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith many uncollected and long out-of-print writings, this is the first volume of Kempton's work to appear in 30 years, a book that resdiscovers the legendary figure of journalism that David Remnick called \"the greatest newspaperman in town.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The man is a marvel. It's like listening to Louis Armstrong, or Roy Eldridge: you don't know where the hell he is going, but somehow he gets there and it knocks your socks off.\" --Frank Sinatra \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA courtly man of Southern roots, Murray Kempton worked as a labor reporter for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e, won a Pulitzer Prize while at Newsday, and was arrested at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago along the way. He wore three piece suits and polished oxfords and was known for riding his bicycle around New York City while listening to his CD Walkman and smoking a pipe with wild red hair that later turned white. He developed a taste for baroque prose and became, in the words of Robert Silvers, his editor at The New York Review of Books, ''unmatched in his moral insight into the hypocrisies of politics and their consequences for the poor and powerless.'' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe went to court proceedings and traffic accidents and funerals and to speeches by people who either were or wanted to be rich and famous. He wrote about everything and anybody--Tonya Harding and Warren Harding, Fidel Castro and Mussolini, Harry Truman and Sal Maglie, St. Francis of Assisi and James Joyce and J. Edgar Hoover. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom dispatches from a hardscrabble coal town in Western Maryland, a bus carrying Freedom Riders through Mississippi, an Iowa cornfield with Nikita Krushchev, an encampment of guerrillas in El Salvador, and Moscow at the end of the Soviet Union (these last two assignments filed by a reporter in his 70s), Kempton's concerns and interests were extraordinarily broad. He wrote about subjects from H.L. Mencken to Tupac Shakur; organized labor and McCarthyism; the Civil Rights and Black Power movements; presidential hopefuls and Mafiosi; frauds and failures of all stripes; the \"splendors and miseries\" of life in New York City.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMURRAY KEMPTON\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1917 and raised in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore. He spent much of his career as a columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Post \u003c\/i\u003eand, later, \u003ci\u003eNew York Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e. He wrote regularly for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and contributed journalism, essays, and criticism to publications including \u003ci\u003eThe Progressive\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, where he worked briefly as an editor. He wrote two books: \u003ci\u003ePart of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties\u003c\/i\u003e (1955) and \u003ci\u003eThe Briar Patch: The People of New York vs. Lumumba Shakur, et al.\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), which won a National Book Award. His other distinctions include two George Polk awards; the inaugural Sidney Hillman Prize; a Grammy for his contribution to the liner notes of a Frank Sinatra boxed set; and the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1985. He died in New York City in 1997. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eANDREW HOLTER\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1990) is a historian and writer based in Chicago, formerly of Frederick, Maryland, and Baltimore. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLapham's Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. As an independent historical researcher, he has contributed to books, radio programs, and museum exhibitions, and served as the primary archival consultant for Theo Anthony's 2016 documentary Rat Film, which the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ecalled one of \"62 Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking.\"\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 29, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43155896959039,"sku":"9781644214510","price":35.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/eoyG1xhA1y9781644214510.webp?v=1776967501","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/going-around-selected-journalism-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}