Going Around - Murray Kempton

A 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 The New York Post, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and Newsday.With 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.”“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 SinatraA courtly man of Southern roots, Murray Kempton worked as a labor reporter for the New York Post, 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.'He went to court proceedings and traffic accidents and funerals and to speeches
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