Going Around

Table Of Contents

Foreword, by Darryl Pinckney     
Introduction, by Andrew Holter
I’ll Still Take Roosevelt, 10/6/36
“Last Boat for Jerusalem,” 1941 50
All for Mr. Davis: The Story of Sharecropper Odell Waller (with Pauli Murray), 1941           
The Wobblies and Tom Clark, 8/2/49    
Christmas in Shallmar, Md., 12/22/49  
Women Pickets Only ‘Floozies’ to Tenn. Troops, 6/7/50  
Huntsman, What Quarry?, 4/29/53       
A Night Thought, 6/11/53        
Bad Day at the Track, 3/11/54 
The Real Davy, 6/21/55           
Intruder in the Dust, 11/1/55   
The Way It’s Got to Be, 2/9/56 
All the Saints, 3/7/56    111
Buckley’s National Bore, July 1956        
Daughter of the Furies, 1/29/57           
The Inheritance, New York Post, 6/19/57          
Loyalty, 8/14/57          
The Wrong Man, 8/15/57         
The Big Cheese, 4/2/58 134
Ten Days That Shook, 9/24/59 
Let Me Off Uptown, 9/21/60    
A Seat on the Bus, 3/25/61      
The Saddest Story, 6/5/62       
“I would like to talk to you tonight quite personally…,” address at rally against the McCarran Act, Manhattan Center, New York, 7/7/62      
Visiting Hours, 8/6/62  
Back at the Polo Grounds, August 1962 
The Clarity of A. Philip Randolph, 7/6/63           
The March on Washington, 9/4/63       
Romans (with James Ridgeway), 12/7/63         
The Champ and the Chump, March 7, 1964       
The Meritocracy of Labor, 2/2/65
Robert George Thompson: American, 1/26/66  
Four Days in Mississippi, 7/1/66          
K. Marx: Reporter, 6/15/67      
The Underestimation of Dwight D. Eisenhower, September, 1967
Thoughts on Columbia, 4/30/68           
Illusion to Reality, from Law & Disorder: The Chicago Convention and Its Aftermath (Chicago: D. Myrus, 1968)
A Victory for Proper Manners, 3/7/70    
The Panthers on Trial, 5/7/70   
“One underappreciated advantage to being a pauper…,” 9/9/71
My Last Mugging, December 1971        
“Our war with North Vietnam…,” 1/30/73          
“The streakers seem to have disappeared…,” 3/21/74  
Witnesses, 6/10/76     
Yes, the Ferry is Far From Perfect, 5/18/78       
We Owe the Mob a Lot, 3/25/78           
The Making of the Pope, 9/11/78         
A Name for a Crime, 10/15/78  287
Offsides for False Modesty, 11/2/78     
The Scribblers’ Choice, 9/18/80
Saving a Whale, 6/11/81         
The Sad Secrets of an Assassin’s Mind, 10/15/81         
Captain Jolly Hasn’t Noticed We’re Adrift, 1/6/83           
Mussolini in Concert, 4/14/83  
The Ambivalence of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 12/1/83    
Mrs. Velasquez and the Politicians, 2/2/84       
“If I Leave You, Baby, Count the Days I’m Gone,” 4/29/84          
Example of Police Restraint Ends in Coma–and Death, 6/26/84 
Pride and Prejudice, 12/5/84   
Splendors and Miseries on Gramercy Park, January 1985           
Parade’s End, 6/13/85
The Landlord State, 9/5/85      
Report from Nicaragua, 6/27/86          
If RICO Wins, We Lose, 3/8/87 
Verdict on a City, 6/17/87        
Bessie Smith: Poet, 4/5/87      
Strange Landscape at Passion’s Height, Newsday, 11/15/87     
Turning 70, Just by Chance, 12/17/87  
Hostage to History, 6/19/88     
The Beggar of Gracie Mansion, 8/11/88
Undertaking Roy Cohn, Autumn 1988     396
Bike Theft as a Point of Departure, 10/2/88      
On Clemency for Jean Harris, 10/13/88
The Proof That Trump is a Self-Made Man, 6/4/89         
My File is Haunted by Hoover, 5/14/89 
Death, Life in Painting, Exhibition, 11/17/89     
In the Oddly Delightful Company of Guerrillas, 12/3/89  
Unsentimental Education, 9/13/91       
Oh, for Brawls of Yesteryear, 4/12/92   
Let Me Be Wrong About Clinton, 5/27/93          
A Raisin in the Sun, 3/24/94    
Brave Instincts, Affirming Dignity, 12/1/94        
The Reporter’s One Commanding Duty, address upon receiving the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award, Colby College, 11/9/95   
A Little Boy with Ol’ Blue Eyes, 12/15/96          
Unjust Advances Behind Bars, 1/5/97  
Once Ain’t for Always, 6/12/97 
“Trespassing,” c. 1995 
“My Funeral,” 5/8/97   
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Acknowledgments