Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Murray Kempton
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Political essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Politics, Social issues, Conservatism, Politicians, Liberalism, Organized crime, Russia or Russian people, Watergate Affair, Political conventions
Murray Kempton is an unapologetic liberal columnist who for four decades has observed the national and international scenes from his New York base with a skeptical eye. His topics for such newspapers as the New York Post, the New York World-Telegram, and Newsday have ranged from an American Communist war hero denied burial in a national cemetery to a woman in New York who put out three different contracts on her husband’s life, and from Richard Nixon’s losses in 1966 to Ronald Reagan’s unsuccessful run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976....
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