Background
Kluger, Richard was born on September 18, 1934 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of David and Ida (Abramson) Kluger.
(Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark ...)
Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before 1954, the cumulative assaults on the white power structure that defended segregation, and the step-by-step establishment of a team of inspired black lawyers that could successfully challenge the law. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the unanimous Supreme Court decision that ended legal segregation, Kluger has updated his work with a new final chapter covering events and issues that have arisen since the book was first published, including developments in civil rights and recent cases involving affirmative action, which rose directly out of Brown v. Board of Education.
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The Robin Hood legend is turned on end in this lively and daring "corrective tale" of the oft-maligned Sheriff of Nottingham. Myth is overturned with this historically-based account of the poor, French-born Philip Mark. Appointed to the post of Sheriff, he is portrayed as a man of honesty and fair-mindedness--traits the corrupt Nottingham had never seen.
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(1977, hardcover edition, Doubleday, NY, 471 pages. Murder...)
1977, hardcover edition, Doubleday, NY, 471 pages. Murder trial novel set in Savannah. The year is 1913. A pretty teenaged employee of a local factory is found murdered in a basement. A young Jewish factory superintendent is charged with the crime.
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Kluger, Richard was born on September 18, 1934 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of David and Ida (Abramson) Kluger.
He attended the Horace Mann School and Princeton University, there he was the 1955-1956 chair of the Daily Princetonian.
He enrolled in the Columbia School of Journalism but did not graduate. Kluger began his career as a journalist, writing for various small newspapers, and later the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and the New York Herald Tribune (he was its last literary editor), and magazines, including Forbes. Kluger left journalism to serve as executive editor at Simon & Schuster and editor-in-chief at Atheneum.
Kluger has written books of fiction and social history.
In 2011, Kluger published The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America. In 2006, Kluger published Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea, an extended investigation of how the current territory of the United States was amassed.
The book has received mixed reviews, alternately complimenting its detailed insights into the under-reported history of this issue, and criticizing the author"s alleged biases, errors, inferences and presumptions, and allegedly verbose writing style. Kluger"s writing has been described as liberal, and/or emphasizing racial-injustice perspectives.,
In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
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(1977, hardcover edition, Doubleday, NY, 471 pages. Murder...)
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Married Phyllis Schlain, March 23, 1957. Children— Matthew Harold, Leonard Theodore.