Title: American rebels /
Authors: Newfield, Jack.
Publisher: Nation Books ; Distributed by Publishers Group West,
Year: 2003
Subjects: United States Biography.
Abstract: "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."--Jacket.
Contents: Norman Mailer / Pete Hamill -- Woody Guthrie / Steve Earle -- Bob Moses / Tom Hayden -- Hank Williams / Mark Jacobson -- Bob Dylan / Gene Santoro -- Michael Harrington / Maurice Isserman -- Edward Abbey / Terry Bisson -- Murray Kempton / Jack Newfield -- Robert Frank / Adam Shatz -- Paul O'Dwyer / Jim Callaghan -- Cesar Chavez / Peter Edelman -- Joe Louis / Budd Schulberg -- Aretha Franklin / Gerri Hershey -- Jane Jacobs / Roberta Brandes Grantz -- Margaret Sanger / Ellen Chesler -- Fannie Lou Hamer / Judith Coburn -- Samuel Fuller / J. Hoberman -- Miles Davis / Lucius Shepard -- Thelonius Monk / Stanley Crouch -- Theodore Drieser / Richard Lingeman -- John Steinbeck / Robert W. Snyder -- Mario Puzo / Nicholas Pileggi -- Dorothy Day / Wayne Barrett and Chris Barrett -- Benjamin Mays / Roger Wilkins -- Bella Abzug / Patricia Bosworth -- Father Mychal Judge / Terry Golway -- Justice William O. Douglas / Nat Hentoff -- I.F. Stone / Victor Navasky -- Frank Sinatra / Sidney Zion -- John Garfield / Mickey Knox -- Reverend Norman Edy / Dan Wakefield -- Walt Whitman / Richard Gambino -- Frederick Wiseman / Stuart Klawans -- Bill Veeck / Stan Isaacs -- Curt Flood / Wallace Matthews -- Howard T. Odum / Charles Bowden -- Bill Hicks / Tom Gogola -- Curtis Mayfield / Scott Sherman -- Clarence Darrow / Danny Goldberg -- Paul Wellstone / Joe Conason -- Clifford and Virginia Durr / Geoff Cowan -- Noam Chomsky / Jay Parini -- Rachel Carson / Terry Tempest Williams -- Will Rogers / Ray Robinson.