Title

Rebellions, perversities, and main events

Description

In today's society, the model citizen is too often one with neither memory nor traditions. Murray Kempton's refusal to relinquish either is among his greatest achievements. He knows that the chaos of daily events can only be understood through the prism of the past. He is a man suffused with a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for the life of the mind. He is that rare reporter whose skepticism has never succumbed to cynicism.

Identifier

490635

812922948

Creator

Kempton, Murray

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1994

Program air date: July 3, 1994.

Publisher

Times Books

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: Karl Marx, Westbrook Pegler, H.L. Mencken, Whittaker Chambers, Alger Hiss. Why start with Paul Robeson? 1. New York Review of Books. Cassius Clay. 2. New Republic. A Phillip Randolph- 63. Bayard Rustin. Malcolm X-3. The New York World Telegram-65. Robert Thompson-Communist-WWII. Charles Keith-Communist-78. 4. Newsday. Martin Luther King, the Pope, Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson. Underlinings/notes: Beginning with the Contents, Lamb underscores notable names like: Paul Robeson, Karl Marx, Alger Hiss, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Thurgood Marshall, Mussolini, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Martin Luther King, Jr., Colin L. Powell, Michael Milken and others. Names continue to be underlined throughout the volume. Titles of books/articles are also noted as is biographical information, pithy observations like "the novelist can always teach us more than the political scientist." or "it has been Chambers's general fate to have struggled to be an historical presence and to end up being treated merely as an historical object." Notes: Lamb writes the name of the journal and date of publication at the head of each article. "Honor & fraud," "civil liberty," "seemed much larger than he was," "great con," "recording angel=Death."

Subject

United States--Civilization--20th century

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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