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2004
Among our most celebrated and notorious Americans, these
monsters are the corrupt, greedy, power-mad, and vicious
betrayers of the dreams of fair play and equal opportunity,
the practitioners of a catalog of anti-democratic vice:
from anti-Semitism and union-busing to racism and murder.
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American
Rebels is an anthology of specially commissioned essays
by leading American writers on individuals who reconciled
authentic patriotism with original artistic creation, unpopular
opinion, and real moral principles. It includes rebels in
politics, education, journalism, religion, literature, film,
sports, music, law, popular culture, and social struggle,
all of whom struggled against conformity, commercialism,
racism, oligarchy, conventional wisdom, stacked decks, and
sacred cows.
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To acclaimed
reporter Jack Newfield, who worked closely with him during
his last years, RFK was a human being far different from
the myths that surrounded his name. "Part of him was
soldier, priest, radical, and football coach. But he was
none of these. He was a politician. His enemies said he
was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist
exploiting his brother’s legend. But he was too passionate
and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator
his brother was." In this haunting and memorable portrait
we see what kind of man died when Robert Kennedy was shot.
And what kind of leader America lost.
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"Veteran
New York journalist Newfield (Somebody's Gotta Tell It,
etc.) gets right to the point, his lead sentence declaring
Rudy Giuliani 'a C-plus mayor... who has become an A-plus
myth' since September 11. Rather than defining the mayor
by his last few months in City Hall, Newfield insists 'we
should see him the way he was on September 10' and expands
on an article published in the Nation in 2001 to depict
the underside of Giuliani's eight years in power."
--Publisher's Weekly
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A new, updated
edition of the best-selling biography of America's boxing
mogul, the source for the Emmy-winning movie Don King:
Only in America. When Jack Newfield's unauthorized
biography of Don King first appeared in 1995 it was hailed
as one of the most important pieces of sports journalism
of the decade. The HBO movie based on the book continues
to be a television favorite. Now, for the first time, The
Life and Crimes of Don King is available in paperback.
Jack Newfield has provided a new introduction and an extensive
epilogue--"The Shame of Boxing in America"--for
this new edition.
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New
York Post writer Newfield's life story could easily
seem like a cliche: a blue-collar boy grows up in Dodgers-era
Brooklyn, attends public school and the tuition-free City
University, rallies with civil rights heroes in the 1960s
and '70s and slugs his way up the ladder to become a reporter
who works for everyman. --Publisher's Weekly
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