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University of Michigan. Stanford Law School.
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Dreadful : The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns by David Margolick (13-Nov-2014) Paperback
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
( The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may...)
The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation—in Little Rock and throughout the South—and an epic moment in the civil rights movement. In this gripping book, David Margolick tells the remarkable story of two separate lives unexpectedly braided together. He explores how the haunting picture of Elizabeth and Hazel came to be taken, its significance in the wider world, and why, for the next half-century, neither woman has ever escaped from its long shadow. He recounts Elizabeth’s struggle to overcome the trauma of her hate-filled school experience, and Hazel’s long efforts to atone for a fateful, horrible mistake. The book follows the painful journey of the two as they progress from apology to forgiveness to reconciliation and, amazingly, to friendship. This friendship foundered, then collapsed—perhaps inevitably—over the same fissures and misunderstandings that continue to permeate American race relations more than half a century after the unforgettable photograph at Little Rock. And yet, as Margolick explains, a bond between Elizabeth and Hazel, silent but complex, endures.
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(Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock ) Author: David Margolick Oct-2011
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Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink by David Margolick (2006-10-10)
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A Predator Priest (Kindle Single)
(Much has been written about priests and pedophilia, but n...)
Much has been written about priests and pedophilia, but not about particular priests and their particular victims. This is the story about Father Bernard Bissonnette, a priest from Grosvenordale, Connecticut and the fifty-year path of destruction and heartache he left in his wake. There were dozens of victims, first in his home state and then in New Mexico, where the Catholic Church sent him to be “cured,” only to recycle him in parishes throughout the state. It highlights the Deary family of Putnam, Connecticut, whose eldest son, Tommy – the second of their thirteen children – was one of Bissonnette’s earliest victims, and who, after struggling for many years with depression, marital problems, and his own sexual identity, eventually killed himself. And it follows the tireless efforts of his youngest brother to overcome the obstructionism and hostility of the Catholic Church and track down Father Bissonnette, confront him with his misdeeds, then bring him to justice – or at least get him thrown out of the Church.
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Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song
( Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strang...)
Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first direct musical assault upon racial lynchings in the South. Originally sung in New York's Cafe Society, these revolutionary lyrics take on a life of their own in this revealing account of the song and the struggle it personified. Strange Fruit not only chronicles the civil rights movement from the '30s on, it examines the lives of the beleaguered Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol, the white Jewish schoolteacher and communist sympathizer who wrote the song that would have an impact on generations of fans, black and white, unknown and famous, including performers Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, and Sting.
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BY Margolick, David ( Author ) { Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song By Margolick, David ( Author ) Jan - 23- 2001 ( Paperback ) }
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Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns by David Margolick (2013-06-04)
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock Hardcover 2011 (Author) David Margolick
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At the Bar
(Every Friday for seven years, David Margolick has examine...)
Every Friday for seven years, David Margolick has examined the American fascination with the culture of law and lawyering in his New York Times column, "At the Bar." Here are the best of his observations on the lawyer's trade -- from its noblest moments to its greatest blunders. From profiles of distinguished or notorious legal professionals to provocative explorations of legal ethics and observations on the changing legal profession, this collection is an entertaining must-read for anyone interested in the folkways of modern American law, put forth with wit, rigor, and insight by one of the nation's foremost legal commentators.
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Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink by Margolick, David (2005) Hardcover
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Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
(American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief ...)
American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor, Connecticut. During World War II, he was stationed in Africa and Italy, and worked mainly in military intelligence. His first novel, The Gallery (1947), based on his wartime experiences, is a critically acclaimed novel and one of the first to unflinchingly depict gay life in the military. The Gallery sold half a million copies upon publication, but never again would Burns receive that kind of critical or popular attention. Dreadful follows Burns, from his education at the best schools to his final years of drinking and depression in Italy. With intelligence and insight, David Margolick examines Burns’s moral ambivalence toward the behavior of American soldiers stationed with him in Naples, and the scandal surrounding his second novel, Lucifer with a Book, an unflattering portrayal of his experiences at Loomis.
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Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns Paperback November 11, 2014
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Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
(Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion ...)
Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 and 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling — bouts that symbolized the hopes, hatreds, and fears of a world moving toward total war. Acclaimed journalist David Margolick takes us into the careers of both men — a black American and a Nazi German hero — and depicts the extraordinary buildup to their legendary 1938 rematch. Vividly capturing the outpouring of emotion that the two fighters brought forth, Margolick brilliantly illuminates the cultural and social divisions that they came to represent.
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Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song By Margolick, David ( Author ) Paperback 2001
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David Margolick
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Margolick has held similar positions at Newsweek and Portfolio. Prior to joining Vanity Fair he was a legal affairs reporter at The New York Times, where he wrote the weekly “At the Bar" column and covered the trials of O.J. Simpson, Lorena Bobbitt, and William Kennedy Smith. In his fifteen years at the Times, the paper entered his work four times for the Pulitzer Prize.
He remains a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review.
His work has also appeared in The New York Review of Books, Tablet, and the Forward. Margolick is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Stanford Law School, and is the author of Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns, a biography of the controversial American author John Horne Burns.
In an hour-long conversation recorded May 1, 2014, Margolick and Jay Ackroyd discussed "Dreadful". Margolick is also the author of Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock, a study of the principal figures in the iconic photograph from the 1957 school desegregation crisis, published in October 2011 by Yale University Press.
In July 2011 his long-form article A Predator Priest, about a family’s long quest to bring a pedophile priest from Margolick’s hometown of Putnam, Connecticut, to justice, was posted on Kindle Singles.
His prior books include, published by Knopf in 2005. Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song (2001). At the Bar: The Passions and Peccadillos of American Lawyers (1995).
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He is currently writing a book on Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows” for Nextbook’s Jewish Encounters Series (Schocken/Random House). He has been an adjunct professor in New York University’s Department of Journalism and lives in New York City.
Works
book
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
( The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may...)
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Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
(Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion ...)
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Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song
( Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strang...)
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At the Bar
(Every Friday for seven years, David Margolick has examine...)
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Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
(American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief ...)
- BY Margolick, David ( Author ) { Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song By Margolick, David ( Author ) Jan - 23- 2001 ( Paperback ) }
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A Predator Priest (Kindle Single)
(Much has been written about priests and pedophilia, but n...)
- Dreadful : The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns by David Margolick (13-Nov-2014) Paperback
- (Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock ) Author: David Margolick Oct-2011
- Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink by David Margolick (2006-10-10)
- Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns by David Margolick (2013-06-04)
- Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock Hardcover 2011 (Author) David Margolick
- Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink by Margolick, David (2005) Hardcover
- Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns Paperback November 11, 2014
- Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song By Margolick, David ( Author ) Paperback 2001
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
