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Ronald Goldfarb is a Washington, D.C. attorney, author, and literary agent. He is listed in Who's Who In the United States, Who's Who In Law, and other listings of prominent Americans, writers and scholars.
Born in New Jersey and educated in its public schools, he began college (at age 16) at Syracuse University. Combining his last year of undergraduate work (BA 1954) with his first year of law school, he graduated (LLB) in 1956 and was one of the youngest to be admitted to the New York bar that year. He continued his education at Yale Law School, where he earned Masters (LLM, 1960) and Doctorate (JSD, 1962) degrees from Yale. He was later admitted to the California and District of Columbia and United States Supreme Court bars.
Goldfarb's work at Yale Law School was interrupted when he accepted a commission and served three years in the United States Air Force JAG, where he prosecuted and defended numerous courts-martial, cases running the gamut from AWOL to murder and desertion (capital offenses).
For a year, after completing his military service and graduation from Yale, Goldfarb was the Arthur Garfield Hays Fellow at New York University Law School where he worked on his first book, The Contempt Power, published in 1963 by Columbia University Press and in 1971 in paperback by Anchor Books. ("This book is a clear and eloquent presentation of the history of the contempt power and the dangers inherent in that power as it is being used at present. The book will prove to be as interesting to laymen as it is to lawyers-Thurman Arnold, The New Republic) During that year at New York University, he also worked as legal counsel for the American Jewish Congress, Commission on Law and Social Action, a civil rights and civil liberties organization based in New York City.
In 1961, Goldfarb was recruited to join the New Frontier. He was a member of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the Department of Justice for almost four years, and conducted grand jury investigations and successful multi-defendant criminal trials in federal courts in Florida, Kentucky, and Ohio. For several months in 1964, the Justice Department delegated Goldfarb to the Presidential Task Force which created the Office of Economic Opportunity under the guidance of Sargent Shriver. When Robert F. Kennedy ran for the U.S. Senate in New York, he recruited Goldfarb to work on that campaign as a speech writer. He resigned from the Justice Department to do so. Goldfarb's book (Perfect Villains, Imperfect Heroes) about those Justice Department experiences was published in 1995 by Random House, paperback in 2002 by Capital Books. "Mr. Goldfarb's descriptions of the investigative and prosecutorial processes are dead-accurate and engrossing. He richly details the intellectual, ethical and emotional challenges." -Lloyd George Parry, The Baltimore Sun; "...a compelling piece of work, strongly evocative of an era that seems, more and more, to have been one of the most extraordinary periods in our history." - Don Delillo, author, Underworld, White Noise, and The Body Artist; "You caught him well, and no one else has remotely touched what you have done about the fight against organized crime. So it is important as well as moving." - Anthony Lewis, The New York Times.
After the successful Kennedy senate campaign, Goldfarb handled select cases (successfully arguing one appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. v. Harris), and wrote two books: the award winning, Ransom, A Critique of the American Bail System (introduction by Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg) published by Harper & Row (1965), paperback by John Wiley (1967). ("Bail is a barnacle on the back of the poor. In this book Ronald Goldfarb brilliantly describes how the poor suffer from this iniquitous anachronism and tells why it should be uprooted from our law."-J. Skelly Wright, United States Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals). "Ransom is a deep indictment of current bail practices. It blends scholarship and commitment in pointing the way toward fulfilling the promises of the Constitution, and the ancient pledges of Anglo-American liberties. I hope all lawyers, and concerned citizens, will read his book." - Robert F. Kennedy, United States Senator. He also co-wrote Crime and Publicity-The Impact of News on the Administration of Justice, with Alfred Friendly, the managing editor of The Washington Post (1967), a book published and sponsored by The Twentieth Century Fund. Paperback by Vintage (1968).
The Justice Department delegated Goldfarb to the interagency Task Force which worked on the creation of the poverty program, OEO, under Sarge Shriver who would later become Goldfarb's client in the writing of his biography, Sarge
In 1966, Goldfarb founded a law firm with Stephen Kurzman (formerly legislative assistant to New York Senator Jacob Javits) which specialized in special legal assignments (both worked on the Kerner Commission study of riots; Goldfarb was a consultant to The Brookings Institution on Courts and The Administration of Justice, and to the California Legislature's Study of Courts and The Administration of Justice in California). He was appointed Special Counsel to the United States House of Representatives Inquiry into the charges against Representative Adam Clayton Powell. He taught at many colleges as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow for one week periods.
The firm changed members in ensuing years-Goldfarb & Singer, Goldfarb Singer, & Austern, Goldfarb, Kaufman, & O'Toole-until the present time, Goldfarb & Associates. He specialized in public interest law, particularly in correctional reform (trying a landmark Eighth Amendment case condemning conditions at the D.C. Jail, peacefully negotiating a hostage-taking riot at the jail, organizing an ex-offender organization which has operated successfully for about forty years). With a Ford Foundation grant he co-authored a book on correctional reform, After Conviction, (Simon & Schuster, 1973) with a colleague, Linda Singer (paperback in 1977). "After Conviction contains not only a massive indictment of the criminal justice system, but also recommendations for sensible and workable reforms. Ron Goldfarb is one of the most thoughtful and knowledgeable people writing on the criminal justice system today. After Conviction is a real contribution to the field."-Tom Wicker. [After Conviction] is magnificent...well written...authoritative. It is a sort of book that really hadn't existed until Ron Goldfarb put it together." - Karl Menninger.
Again for The Twentieth Century Fund, he wrote Jails-The Ultimate Ghetto, Doubleday (1975; Anchor paperback, 1976).
Judge Charles Richey, D.C. federal district court, appointed Goldfarb Chairman of a Special Review Committee created to implement a major nationwide court order against the Department of Labor regarding the improvement of living and work conditions of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. For two years, he conducted hearings around the United States on behalf of the court. Goldfarb's work for the court was praised by Judge Richey. The Ford Foundation supported Goldfarb's later book on the subject, A Caste of Despair, Migrant Farm Workers in the United States, Iowa State University Press (1981). "Here is a strongly, worded, trenchant, discerning, fair-minded analysis of a major American social problem. Here, too, is a kind of exemplary witness-what is means to be a compassionate, high-minded lawyer and what it means, as a matter of fact, to remember in one's mind and heart, in one's working life as an attorney, as a citizen, those words engraved on the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.: "Equal Justices Under Law.: One concludes the reading of this book wishing (hope against hope!) that it will be the very last one written and wishing, too, that those who practices the law could claim more colleagues such Ronald Goldfarb-a moral example to a profession, to all of us."-from the Foreword by Robert Coles.
Goldfarb created a course for judges and lawyers on legal writing which was conducted for many years under the auspices of the National Center for State Trial Judges, and later privately. With Professor James Raymond, Goldfarb wrote Clear Understandings-A Guide to Legal Writing, published by Random House (1983).
Goldfarb's law practice evolved into representing writer's organizations, The Washington Independent Writers for many years and Associated Writing Programs to the present. He has represented hundreds of writers as well, as their attorney and agent. His literary practice evolved into an active literary agency bearing his name. He co-authored The Writer's Lawyer, Essential Legal Advice for Writers and Editors in all Media with a colleague Gail Ross (Times Books, 1989). "When writers want to make sure they've got it absolutely right, Ron Goldfarb is the one they turn to. And The Writer's Lawyer is the book they should read."-Nick Kotz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Wild Blue Yonder: Money, Politics, and the B-1 Bomber.
Goldfarb also has presided over MainStreet, A Television Production Company, organized with Hodding Carter in 1987. It is still run by Goldfarb after Carter left in 1998 to preside over the Knight Foundation. Goldfarb hosted a weekly discussion show on public television, Devil's Advocate, and produced documentaries on Sam Ervin and Claude Pepper. MainStreet has produced many television shows and documentaries, some of which have won awards, most recently Desperate Hours, winner of the District of Columbia Independent Film Festival Award in 2002.
In 1998, Goldfarb wrote TV or Not TV, Television, Justice and the Courts, again with support from the Century Fund, and published by New York University Press. "Going beyond the obvious controversies of recent years, Goldfarb surveys the role of television in courtrooms with cool, but crisp detachment. He brings historical context, legal analysis, and rich experience to bear on the issue, concluding that courts are public institutions that do not belong exclusively to the judges and lawyers who run them. His persuasive argument for greater openness is bound to influence future debate on the topic."-Sanford J. Ungar, Dean, School of Communication, American University. "A tour de force, a one-stop repository of the history, facts and the law of the matter. I plan to plagiarize from it shamelessly. This is an important subject, and Goldfarb's book provides the first comprehensive, in-depth study of the issue." - Fred Graham, Chief Anchor and Managing Editor, Court TV. "Goldfarb argues persuasively for cameras in the courtroom, O.J. notwithstanding. He is aware of the problems but believes strongly that the more open a courtroom, the more open and free our society. The challenge, which he describes so well, is to balance the new demanding technology against our traditional dedication to democracy." - Marvin Kalb, Director, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University.
Goldfarb has contributed chapters to several books, and selections to several encyclopedias, and is the author of many law journal articles, and about 300 newspaper articles and op-eds. He writes a regular monthly book review or article for The Washington Lawyer. He is an active board member of The Alliance For Justice, and has served on other boards such as Common Cause, American Jewish Committee, Yale Law School Association. He also worked on several Presidential Commissions.
Goldfarb has contributed chapters to several books, including a chapter on Politics At The Justice Department in the book, Conspiracy: The Implications of the Harrisburg Trial for the Democratic Tradition, edited by John Raines; he wrote the Foreword to Freedom For Sale, A National Study of Pretrial Release by Paul B. Wice, and How To Try A Criminal Case, American Trial Lawyers Association book, 1967. He has contributed selections to several encyclopedias on law and government, including The Encyclopedia of Criminology, edited by Raymond Corsini, Macmillan, 1994, The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, Commission of the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution Project, Simon & Schuster, 1994, The Encyclopedia of Publishing and Book Arts, Henry Holt, Spring 1995, The Macmillan Encyclopedia, 1997, The Constitution and Its and Amendments and Cameras in Courts, and in the Yale Biographical Dictionary of Law, a sketch on Fred Rodell.
His eleventh book, IN CONFIDENCE: Confidential Communications and the End of Privilege, will be published by Yale University Press in 2008.
He is the author of many law journal articles, and about 300 newspaper articles and op-eds. He writes a regular monthly book review for Washington Lawyer. He was a board member of The Alliance For Justice, Common Cause, American Jewish Committee, and was president of the Yale Law School Association of Washington D.C. He also worked on several Presidential Commissions, including the National Advisory Commission of Civil Disorders, Commission to Revise Federal Criminal Law, and The Agenda for the Eighties.
Goldfarb lives and works in Alexandria, Virginia and Key Biscayne, Florida. He is married to Joanne Jacob, an award-winning architect. They have three children, Jody, a social worker, Nicholas, a television and movie writer and producer, and Maximilian, an artist.
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In The
Public Interest
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Washington Post
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Voices
from the Prison Suburbs
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Washington Post
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| 1955 |
Fall |
Symposium on Artificial Insemination |
Syracuse Law Review |
| 1961 |
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The History of the Contempt Power |
Washington University Law Quarterly |
| 1961 |
March |
Contempt by Publication in the United States (with Professor R. Donnelly) |
The Modern Law Review |
| 1961 |
April |
Pubic Information, Criminal Trials, and the Cause Celebre |
New York University Law Review |
| 1961 |
Fall |
The Varieties of the Contempt Power |
Syracuse University Law Review |
| 1962 |
December |
The Constitution and Contempt of Court |
Michigan Law Review |
| 1963 |
June |
Publishing, Entertainment, Advertising |
Law Quarterly |
| 1964 |
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Book Review: The Language of the Law |
Michigan Law Review |
| 1964 |
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Lawyers and The War v. Poverty |
ABA Journal |
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1964
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February
29
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Ensuring
Fair Trials-The Impropriety of Publicity
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The New
Republic
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1964
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June 6
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The Bail
Scandal
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The New
Republic
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1964
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August 2
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Crime.
Wealth & Justice
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The New
Republic
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1964
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October
30
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The
Courts and TV
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Commonweal
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1964
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December
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Lawyers
and the War Against Poverty
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ABA Journal
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1965
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January
16
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War on
Justice
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The New
Republic
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| 1965 |
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Civil Rights v. Civil Liberties: The Jury Trial Issue with Steve Lurzman |
UCLA Law Review |
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1965
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October
16
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The High
Price of Civil Rights Protests
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The New
Republic
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| 1966 |
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Three Conscientious Objectors |
ABA Journal |
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1966
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April
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Kennedy
and the Liberals
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Washingtonian
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1966
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March 5
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No Room
in the Jail
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The New
Republic
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1966
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April
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The D.C.
Jail-Ten Keys To Reform
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Washingtonian
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1966
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A Reply
to Professor Keeffe
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Federal
Bar Journal
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1966
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June
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Three
Conscientious Objectors
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ABA Journal
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| 1967 |
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The Roles and Dilemmas of Counsel in Criminal Justice |
Administration of Criminal Justice; Southern Regional Education Board |
| 1967 |
August |
Legal Restraints on Crime New (with Alfred Friendly) |
Freedom of Information center Report 185 |
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1967
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Sept 30
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BOOKS
AND THE ARTS
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The New
Republic
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1968
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July 23
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Crime
Gamesmanship
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Washington Post
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1968
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July 7
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There's
A Clear Message to Be Heard in Jail Riots
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Washington Post
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1968
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April 5
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A Fifth
Estate-Washington Lawyers
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New York
Times
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1969
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January
21
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Question
of Preventive Detention
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Washington Post
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1969
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February
26
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Do Our
Jails Need An Ombudsman
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Washington Post
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1969
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March 18
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Prison
Philosophy in Sweden and U.S,
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Washington Post
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1969
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May 29
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A Sense
of Déjà Vu Down at the D.C. Jail
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Washington Post
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1969
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February
2
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The Sad
State of Prisons
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Washington Post
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1969
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October
9
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A Plan
to Ensure Judicious Judges
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Washington Post
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1969
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Nov 16
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On
Courting Contempt
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Washington Post
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1969
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July 19
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Rapping
With Convicts
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The New
Republic
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1969
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January
4
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Making
Criminals
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The New
Republic
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1969
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August
16
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Legal
Nonsense
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The New
Republic
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1969
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November
1
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Prison:
The National Poorhouse
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The New
Republic
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1969
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Dec 13
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The
Conspiracy for Correctional Reform
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The New
Republic
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| 1970 |
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Maryland's Defective Delinquency Law and The Patuxent Institution (with Linda Singer) |
Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 223 |
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1970
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July 19
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Weekends
In Jail: A Useful Technique
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Washington Post
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1970
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January
1
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Different
Ways To End Recidivism
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Washington Post
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1970
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June 24
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A Clear
Message From A Ghetto Walk
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Washington Post
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1970
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March 21
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Social Revolution
May Bring About Prison Refo
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Washington Post
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1970
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October
28
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The
Horror of Prisons
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New York
Times
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1970
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March 1
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A Brief
for Preventive Detention
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New York
Times
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| 1970-71 |
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Redressing Prisoners' Grievances (with Linda Singer) |
George Washington Law Review |
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1971
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June 6
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Just Ask
the Man Who's Been There
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Washington Post
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1971
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March 14
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Closing America's Debtor's Prisons
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Washington Post
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1971
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Sept 25
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The Need
For A Way To Deal With Prison Griev
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Washington Post
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1971
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October
12
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How
Maximum Can You Get?
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New York
Times
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1971
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Nov 21
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Voices
From Inside the Prisons
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Washington Post
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1971
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July 27
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Why Don't
We Tear Down Our Prisons?
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Look
Magazine
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1971
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December
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Disaster
Road: The American Prison System
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Intellectual
Digest
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1971
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December
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The
Voices Inside
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Juris
Doctor
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1972
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June 1
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Cajun
Cooking of New Orleans
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Washington
Post
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1972
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January
27
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Super
Supper in New Orleans
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Washington
Post
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1972
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January
20
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A
"Non-Architecture" Way to Prison Reform
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Washington
Post
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1972
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Nov 29
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Criminal-Victim
Encounter Proposed
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St.
Louis Globe-Democr
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1972
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March 28
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A Plan
for Repaying victims of Crime
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Washington
Post
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1973
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Dec 27
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Jobs
Replace Jail Terms
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Washington
Post
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1973
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June 5
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Bobby
Baker's Return
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Washington
Post
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| 1973 |
May 11 |
Survivors of the System of Justice |
Washington Post |
| 1973 |
October 7 |
Summer Rites and Rights |
Washington Post |
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1973
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April 24
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Prison
Riots and Reform
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Washington
Post
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1973
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May 11
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Survivors
of the System of Justice
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Washington
Post
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1973
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July 15
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Trial
and Prejudice
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Washington
Post
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1973
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August 2
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Rape and
Law Reform
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Washington
Post
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1973
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October
12
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Time
Catches Willie Mays
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Washington
Post
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1973
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June 5
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The Watergate
Hearings: No Time For A Circus
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Washington
Post
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1974
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June 23
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Please
Pass The guilt
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Washington
Post
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1974
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May 16
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A
Prisoner at the Crossroads
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Washington
Post
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1974
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August
14
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The View
from Peaceful Valley
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Washington
Post
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1974
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January
6
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The
Permanent State of Emergency
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Washington
Post
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1974
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July 10
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Executive
Privilege And The Public Interest
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Washington
Post
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1974
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February
17
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Free
Pres-Fair Trial and Watergate
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Washington
Post
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1974
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February
27
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Impeachment
Precedent
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Washington
Post
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1974
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March 31
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Once There
Were Giants
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Newsday
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1974
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April 21
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Crime
and the Media
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Washington
Post
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1974
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June 2
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The
Contempt Power and Watergate
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Washington
Post
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1974
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June 26
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Watergate
Sentences
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Washington
Post
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1974
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Sept 12
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Pardons:
The Way They Usually Work
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Washington
Post
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1974
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December
2
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NO: A
Permanent Special Prosecutor?
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Washington
Post
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1974
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Dec 19
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The
Furlough Furor
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Washington
Post
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1974
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March 3
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A
Lawyer's Idea On Sentencing Convicts
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1974
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January
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American
Prisons: Self-Defeating Concrete
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Psychology
Today
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1974
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March 10
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Formulating
Impeachment Approach
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Sunday
Bulletin
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1975
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July 8
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The
Prescott Experience
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Washington
Post
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1975
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Sept 26
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Vacation
Reading: Far From A Vintage Year
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Washington
Post
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1975
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January
8
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Women
and Crime
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Washington
Post
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1975
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October
29
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Sunshine
Act: Toward Congressional Openness
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Washington
Post
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1975
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December
6
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Trendy
Crime: Will the Medial Always Go Alon
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Washington
Post
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1975
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January
27
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A
Wrinkle in the Campaign Law
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Washington
Post
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1976
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July 24
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The FBI
Paradox
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Washington
Post
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1976
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August
20
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Two
Wranglers
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Washington
Post
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1976
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Dec 20
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A Farm
Workers' Bill of Rights
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Washington
Post
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1976
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February
2
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Teaching
Lawyers to Write
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Washington
Post
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1976
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May 26
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Patty
Hearst: The Quintessential Victim
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Washington
Post
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1976
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October
28
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Lawyers
and Their Language Loopholes
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Washington
Post
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1976
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Nov 17
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Lawyers
Guilty of 'Mumbo-Jumbo'
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Denver
Post
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1976
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Nov 12
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Lethal
"Legalese"
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Washington
Post
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1976
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Nov 12
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How
Lawyers Murder English
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Sacramento
Bee
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1977
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November
6
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With
Friends Like These: The Bakke Case
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S.F.
Sunday Examiner
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1977
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June 27
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Aaron
Henry's Unending Quest for Equality
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Washington
Post
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1977
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June 4
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Fair
Play in the Fields
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Washington
Post
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1977
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January
12
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First
the Filet. Then Integrity for Dessert
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New York
Times
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1977
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January
28
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Carterizing
the Judiciary
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Washington
Post
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1977
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December
3
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Imaginative,
Alternative Sentencing
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Washington
Post
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1977
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Summer
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Lawyer
Language
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Litigation
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1977
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Fall
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Two
Standards of Justice
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District
Lawyer
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1978
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December
4
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Cults,
Sects and the First Amendment
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Baltimore
Sun
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1978
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December
8
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Should
Cults Be Given Closer Scrutiny?
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Chicago
Daily Law Bull
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1978
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December
5
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Distinguishing
'different' Religions from the La
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Des
Moines Register
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1978
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August
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Imported
Farm Labor: How Grower Manipulate
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Washington
Post
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1978
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August
15
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Farmer
Playing a Shell Game with Migrants
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The
Record
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1978
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August 5
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The
cynical Game That Puts Aliens In U.S. Farm
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1978
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January
21
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Criminal
Rehabilitation: It Can Work
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Washington
Post
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1978
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February
4
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When
Merit Yields to Patronage
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Washington
Post
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1978
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May 3
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A
Non-Lawyer for the Supreme Court?
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Washington
Post
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1978
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October
6
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'Least
Drastic Form' of Capital Punishment
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Washington
Post
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1978
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Summer
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'My
Secretary Hereafter Referred to as Mr. Cudd
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Barrister
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| 1978 |
Summer |
Crimes of Legalese: In and Out of Court |
Barrister |
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1978
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May/June
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Does an
article have a legal 'right to life'?
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Columbia
Journalism Re
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1978
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October
10
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Capital
Punishment: A Socially Useful Method
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Bergen
Record
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1978
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November
2
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Capital
Punishment: An enduring puzzle
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Chicago
Law Bulletin
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1978
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October
6
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'Least
Drastic Form' of Capital Punishment
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Washington
Post
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1978
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November
7
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Bizarre
Jascalevich Trial Full of Ironies
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Chicago
Law Bulletin
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1979
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February
19
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If
Prison Isn't The Answer, Community Service
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Des
Moines Register
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1979
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March 13
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Alternatives
to Imprisonment
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Washington
Post
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1979
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February
7
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Alternatives
to Prison
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Baltimore
Sun
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1979
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March 13
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Who Get
Bail-And Who Stays?
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Boston
Globe
|
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1979
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March 5
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Crime
and Bail
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Baltimore
Sun
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1979
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Nov 7
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GUNS-The
State's Right To Bear Arms
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Baltimore
Sun
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1979
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October/Nov
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A Look
at Michael Pertschuk
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District
Lawyer
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1979
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Janaury
5
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Lesbianism
Doesn't Make a Mother Unfit
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Chicago
Law Bulletin
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1979
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February
17
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On The
Very Controversial Question of Lesbian
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Los
Angeles Herald Exa
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1979
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Janaury
8
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Custody
and Custom
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Baltimore
Sun
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1979
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January
23
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When
Mother is a Lesbian
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Newsday
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|
1979
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August 6
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Energy, War
and Wildflowers: Perspective
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Chicago
Law Bulletin
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1979
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July 30
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Common
Peril
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Baltimore
Sun
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1979
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July 10
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Overseeing
Philanthropy
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Baltimore
Sun
|
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1979
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July 11
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Charity
Overseeing Poses Hard Questions
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Chicago
Law Bulletin
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1979
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May 2
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Containing
The Law Explosion
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Baltimore
Sun
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1979
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June 10
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On
Writing Well
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Rocky
Mountain New
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1979
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June 7
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Trend
Toward Plain English and Better
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Syndication
|
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1979
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April 9
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America's
New Class
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Baltimore
Sun
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| 1979 |
November |
Interview of FCC Chairman |
District Lawyer |
|
1980
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February
12
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The Hard
Facts of Gun Control Have Yet To Hit
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Chicago
Daily Law Bull
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|
1980
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May
|
U.S.
Supreme Court Shouldn't Be Preserved
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Commercial
Law Journa
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| 1980 |
May |
Review: THE BRETHREN by Woodward and Armstrong |
Commercial Law Journal |
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1983
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April 21
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Ethic,
Fee and Hypocrisy
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Washington
Post
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1984
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May 25
|
Keep PR
Out of the Courts
|
Washington
Post
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1984
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May 31
|
Let Bump
Bumper Stickers
|
Washington
Jewish Wee
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|
1984
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May 10
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Hymie
& Tyrone
|
Jewish
Week
|
|
1984
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May 25
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Sinatra
v. The First Amendment: Who Owns
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Washington
Post
|
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1985
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June 6
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The
Airman and the Carpenter
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New York
Times Revie
|
|
1985
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January
|
Sam
Ervin and The Letter of the Law
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Washington
Post
|
|
1985
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May 12
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Why
Study Those Dirty Magazines?
|
Washington
Post
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|
1985
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May 28
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The
Corporate veil
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New York
Times
|
|
1985
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October
17
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Lawyers-Or
Hired Guns?
|
Washington
Post
|
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1986
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Sept 4
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Lake to
Lake in Minnesota
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New York
Times
|
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1987
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March 4
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Let's
Skip The Courts-Martial
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New York
Times
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1987
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July 8
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In
Contempt If It Wishes, Congress can just say:
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Washington
Post
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1987
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December
8
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No
Premature Pardons
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Washington
Post
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1987
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Summer/Fall
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Vigilantism, and Justice
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Justice Ethics
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1988
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June 27
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Salinger:
Literary Bio Creates Bad Case Law
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Washington
Times
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1988
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August 8
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We Are,
All of Us, Free-Born Americans
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Washington
Post
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1988
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October
6
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Crimes:
Old Whine, Old Bottles
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New York
times
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1989
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April 2
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The
Letters of the Law
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Washington
Post
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1989
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January
22
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Avoiding
Nostrums and Illusions in the War on
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Los
Angeles Times
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1989
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October
2
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Claude
Pepper: Minister for the People
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Atlanta
Journal
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1990
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January
26
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Drug
Legalization: Asking for Trouble
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Washington
Post
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1990
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February
26
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The Bill
of Rights Needs a
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New York
Times
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1990
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May
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The
Journalist and The Murderer
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Washington
Journalism
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1990
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September
|
Criminal
Trials: How Public, Whose Public?
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Washington
Lawyer
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|
1990
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Winter/Sprin
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Tom
Wolfe's Jurisprudence
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Criminal
Justice Ethics
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1991
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April 20
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Judge
Wright's Wrong
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Washington
Post
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1991
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December
8
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Law and
Justice in Palm Beach
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Atlanta
Constitution
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1992
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August
30
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Rethinking
Nation's War on Crime
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Atlanta
Constitution
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1992
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June 3
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Phil
Stern's Gift
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Washington
Post
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1992
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July 18
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The
Supreme Courts Buys P.C.
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New York
Times
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1993
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March 14
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What The
Mob Knew About JFK's Murder
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Washington
Post
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1993
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May 31
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Mindless
Sentencing
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Washington
Post
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1993
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Nov 21
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Domestic
Disarmament
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Washington
Post
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1993
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January
3
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The Real
Hoffa Story Goes Untold
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Los
Angeles Times
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1993
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Winter
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Supreme
Court Limits Home Office Ded
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SW
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1993
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May
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Bad Book
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WIW
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1993
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March 3
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When
Publishers Unite, Authors Worry
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New York
Times
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1994
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March 9
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Counsel
of Confusion
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New York
Times
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1994
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May 12
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The Mob
Conspiracy to Kill JFK
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Washington
Post
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1994
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October
23
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Put That
Trial On TV
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Washington
Post
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1994
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December
3
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So You
Want A Contract America?
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Washington
Post
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1995
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December
9
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Did The
Mob Kill JFK?
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Washington
Post
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1995
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December
3
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His
Bimini Experience
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Los
Angeles Times
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1995
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December
3
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No Man A
Hero to A Valet, Today We're All
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Los
Angeles Times
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1995
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December
4
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Heroes
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Los
Angeles Times
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1995
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December
1
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The
Wrong Villain
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American
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1996
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May 19
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Start
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Washington
Post
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1996
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May 5
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The
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New York
Times
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1996
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May 19
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The
Future of Drug Policy
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Washington
Post
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1996
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Nov 17
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The
11,000th Amendment
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Washington
Post
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1996
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Nov 24
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Fix U.S.
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Japan
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1996
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JFK,
RFK, The Mob and Dallas
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Cosmos
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1996
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April
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Washington
Monthly
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1996
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July/August
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AJR
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1997
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Sept 10
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Preserved
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Washington
Post
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1997
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April 6
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Good
Lawyers, Bad Clients
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Washington
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1997
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April 6
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Guilt By
Association
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Washington
Post
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1998
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January
9
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The
Contemptible Practice of Contempt
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Los
Angeles Times
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1998
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The
Trial of the Century
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Cosmos
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1998
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January9
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The
Contemptible Practice of Contempt
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LA Times
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1998
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December
8
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Holocaust
Lawyers
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Washington
Post
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1999
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June 28
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Echoes
of Kennedy In Hillary's Run
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New York
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2000
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August 1
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A Tax
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2000
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4
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No;
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2000
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Nov 30
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High
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2001
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February
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2001
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September
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2001
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October
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2001
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August
26
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2002
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December
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The
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2003
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October
11
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2003
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2003
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2003
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2003
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February
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Washington
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2003
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March
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Washington
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2004
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February
12
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2004
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February
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Washington
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2004
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March
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Washington
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2004
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April
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Washington
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2004
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April 4
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2004
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June
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Washington
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2004
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Fred
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2004
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July/August
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Review: The
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Washington
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2004
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January
5
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Pretrial
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2004
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October
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Right
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2004
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2004
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November
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2004
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GOLDFARB & ASSOCIATES, a Washington, D.C. law firm and literary agency, was founded in 1966 by Ronald Goldfarb, an attorney and author. We work closely with MainStreet Media, a television production company owned by Mr. Goldfarb. Our location in the capital enables us to represent many well-known print journalists, television correspondents, policymakers, and politicians, in both the fiction and nonfiction fields. But many of our clients come from all over this country and some from abroad. Through our work with writers' organizations, we are constantly adding new and talented writers to our list of literary clients, and matching collaborators with projects in need of authors or editors. We have found writers to develop book ideas at the request of publishers. Our roster of television and movie projects is rapidly growing.
Ronald Goldfarb is an experienced trial lawyer and a veteran literary agent, as well as the author of 10 books and over 300 articles. Robbie Anna Hare, a native Australian, currently residing both in Israel and in the United States, is a literary agent with experience as a radio and television producer, reporter, and writer. Louise Wheatley, whose background is teaching English literature, is an editor who also works with new authors.
The firm is accepting select new projects, usually on the basis of personal referrals, or from existing clients. Serious non-fiction is our most active area (with all publishing houses and editors), though we do handle fiction selectively.
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TRAINWRECK: The End of the Conservative Revolution by Bill Press . John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008. Also, HOW THE REPUBLICANS STOLE CHRISTMAS , Doubleday 2005 . Also , BUSH MUST GO: Ten Reasons Why George W. Bush Doesn't Deserve A Second Term , Dutton 2004. SPIN THIS , Pocket Books, 2001.
OUR BOYS: A Season of the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen, by Joe Drape , Times Books, 2008. Also, THE BLACK MAESTRO: The Epic Life of an American Legend , William Morrow. 2006. THE RACE FOR THE TRIPLE CROWN , Grove/Atlantic, 2001.
BUSH’S LAW: The Remaking of American Justice by New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner Eric Lichtblau . Pantheon Books 2008.
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY by Stanley Alpert . Putnam/Berkley Crime 2007 . Optioned to United Artists
ALL GOVERNMENTS LIE! The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone , prize-winning biography, by Myra MacPherson . Scribner, 2006
SCANDAL CULTURE: How Gotcha Politics on the Left and Right is Destroying America and What We Can Do To Stop It by Lanny Davis . Palgrave MacMillan 2006
The GOOGLE Story by Pulitzer Prize winner David Vise and Mark Malseed . Bantam Dell, 2005. (Translated into 14 languages) Also, SWEET REDEMPTION , Coach Gary Williams and David Vise, Sports Publishing, 2002.
FINDING MY VOICE , by NPR's Diane Rehm, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, and STRUGGLING TOWARD COMMITMENT , Diane and John Rehm, Knopf, 2002.
AMERICA IN THE MILLENNIAL AGE by Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais, Rutgers University Press, 2009. Also, MILLENNIAL MAKEOVER: Myspace, Youtube, and the Future of American Politics, Rutgers University Press, 2008. Democracy in The Information Age by Morley Winograd and David Buffa, Henry Holt & Company, 1996.
THE UNWRITTEN RULES OF BASEBALL, Paul Dickson, HarperCollins 2009; DRUNK, melville House Publishing 2009.
THE IRREPRESSIBLE BARNEY FRANK: A Political Biography, by Stuart Weisberg, University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.
I CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY: A School Shooting Survivor's Triumph over Tragedy, Missy Jenkins with William Croyle, LangMarc Publishing 2009.
OPERATION DE LA DERNIERE CHANCE by Efraim Zuroff, Palgrave USA, and Michel-Lafon Publishing 2009.
SERVING JUSTICE: Richard Arnold and Civil Rights in the American Nation, Polly J. Price, Prometheus Books Publishers 2009.
THE SCREWING OF OUR VETS by Martin J Schram . Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2007. Also, AVOIDING ARMAGEDDON associated with the eight-part television series on PBS. Basic Books, 2003. CELL PHONE INVISIBLE HAZARDS IN THE WIRELESS AGE , Schram and George Carlo, Carroll & Graf, 2001. MANDATE FOR CHANGE , edited by Will Marshall and Schram, The Progressive Policy Institute, Berkley Books, 1993.
THE TRIUMPH OF THE THRILLER by Patrick Anderson. Random House, 2006. Also , ELECTING JIMMY CARTER, Louisiana State University, 1994; and three novels; RICH AS SIN , Simon & Schuster, 1990; THE PLEASURE OF BUSINESS, Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, Inc., 1989; and BUSY BODY, Simon & Schuster, 1989.
MR. PLAYBOY: Hugh Hefner and the Fantasy Life of America by Steven Watts . John Wiley & Sons, 2007. Also, THE PEOPLE'S TYCOON: Henry Ford and the American Century . Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2003. And, THE MAGIC KINGDOM: WALT DISNEY AND MODERN AMERICAN CULTURE , Houghton-Mifflin. 1998.
TO ESTABLISH JUSTICE FOR ALL: The Past and Future of Civil Legal Aid in the United States, in two volumes: Volume I-- The Turbulent History of Civil Legal Aid in the United States; Volume II- How America Can Fulfill Its Broken Promise of Equal Justice by Justice Earl Johnson, Jr., Greenwood Publishing 2009.
The Embattled Academy by Ellen Schrecker . The New Press, 2008 . THE AMERICAN WAY OF REPRESSION by Ellen Schrecker and Corey Robin, Metropolitan Books 2005. Also by Schrecker, MANY ARE THE CRIMES : McCarthyism in America , Little, Brown & Co., 1998.
THE GIFT OF THE PAST, by Gar Alperovitz, The New Press, 2008. AMERICA BEYOND CAPITALISM, John Wiley 2005. THE PLURALIST COMMONWEALTH, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004. MAKING PLACE FOR COMMUNITY, with Thad Williamson and David Imbroscio, Routledge, 2003. VISION FOR THE CENTURY, Atlantic Monthly Grove Press, 1997. THE DECISION TO USE THE ATOM BOMB, Alfred A Knopf, 1995. HIROSHIMA AND POTSDAM (HBO movie option), Elizabeth Sifton Books, Penguin Books, 1985. REBUILDING AMERICA, with Jeff Faux, Pantheon 1984.
A SOUL ON TRIAL by Robin Cutler. Rowman & Littlefield 2007
SPYING IN A TIME OF HOLY TERROR by Frederick Hitz , Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2007. Also, THE GREAT GAME: MYTH AND REALITY OF ESPIONAGE , Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2004.
INVASION OF THE PARTY-SNATCHERS: How the Holy-Rollers and Neo-Cons Ran Off With The GOP by Victor Gold. Sourcebooks, 2007.
The Al Jazeera Effect, Potomac Books 2008; THE PLAYER: CHRISTY MATHEWSON, BASEBALL AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY , by Phil Seib; Four Walls Eight Windows, 2004. Also BEYOND THE FRONT LINES ; St. Martin's Press/Palgrave, 2004. BROADCASTING FROM THE BLITZ: Ed Murrow in London. 2006, Potomac Publishing.
SMART KIDS; BAD SCHOOLS: Thirty-three Ways to Save America's Future by Brian Crosby. Thomas Dunne Books, 2007. Also, THE $100,000 TEACHER . Capital Books, 2002.
THE CASE FOR IMPEACHMENT OF GEORGE W. BUSH by Dave Lindorff and Barbara Olshansky. St. Martin's Press 2006.
Miami Herald Books : DAN MARINO , Triumph Books 2005. FLORIDA MARLINS' 2003 WORLD SERIES VICTORY . Sports Publishing 2003. THE FLORIDA ELECTION by Martin Merzer and Miami Herald staff. St. Martin's Press, 2000.
IGNORANT ARMIES BY Eve Herold. Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2007. Also, STEM CELLS WAR. Palgrave MacMillan 2006.
AHMAD'S WAR, AHMAD'S PEACE by NPR reporter Michael Goldfarb. Carroll & Graf, 2005
LIVING FOR TRUTH: A Memoir of Bernard Fall by Dorothy Fall. Potomac Books, 2006
SARGE! Sargent Shriver's memoir written by Atlantic Monthly editor Scott Stossel. Smithsonian Institution Press, 2004.
A WALL IS BETTER THAN A WAR by William Richard Smyser. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.
PLENTITUDE OF THE SOUL--Biography of Pablo Neruda by Mark Eisner . W. W. Norton 2008.
MISMATCHED LIBIDOS, by Dr. Sandra Pertot. Marlowe Press/Avalon Publishing, 2006. Also, PERFECTLY NORMAL: Living and Loving with Low Libido , Rodale Press, 2004
EXPOSING HAMAS by Matthew Levitt. Yale University Press, 2006
CHINA'S WINGS by Gregory Crouch. Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 2006. Also by Crouch ENDURING PATAGONIA , Random House, 2001.
THE GOOD SAMARITANS: The Untold Story of Modern-Day Orphanages by Martha Carr. Prometheus Books, 2007
DARWIN'S RACE by Brian Ullmann. Medallion Press 2008.
SECRETS OF THE ZOMBIE CURSE by Dr. Arthur Fournier. Joseph Henry Press 2006.
SLAVERY AND THE BIRTH OF THE REPUBLIC by Alfred W. Blumrosen and Ruth Gerber Blumrosen. Sourcebooks, 2005.
NEVER LOOK BACK , a novel by Milton Burton, Minotaur, Spring 2005. Also, THE SWEET AND THE DEAD . Thomas Dunne Books, 2006
THE FIRST RESORT OF KINGS: American Diplomacy In The Twentieth Century by Richard Arndt. Potomac Books, 2005.
NIGHTWALKERS: Restless Leg Syndrome by Robert H. Yoakum. Fireside, 2006
BATTLEGROUND ATLANTIC by Richard Billings. NAL, 2006
7 SECRETS OF GREAT ENTREPRENEURAL MASTERS: The GEM Power Formula for Lifelong Success by Allen Fishman. McGraw-Hill 2006
VSP Publishing, publisher of the double best-selling books of poems, HEARTSONG and JOURNEY THROUGH HEARTSONGS , 2001, by Mattie Stepanek.
THE ELIZABETH SMART STORY by Ed and Lois Smart; we represented Laura Morton, the writer. Doubleday 2003. Also a CBS movie.
STAIRSTEPS TO THE GODS: Building the Great Pyramid by Craig Smith. Smithsonian Institution Press, 2004. Also, EXTREME WAVES (2006) and LIGHTNING (2007), Joseph Henry Press.
BORDERS OF TIME , by Leslie Maitland, Houghton-Mifflin, 2006.
NEW DAWN: THE RISE OF THE WHITE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT , by MacArthur Fellow, Leonard Zeskind; Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007.
COTTONWOOD DREAMS , by William Lambrecht St. Martin's Press, Thomas Dunne Books, 2004. Also, DINNER AT THE NEW GENE CAFÉ , St. Martin's Press, Thomas Dunne Books, 2001.
SHORT STORY TO BIG SCREEN , edited by Stephanie Harrison; Three Rivers Press, 2004
IN THE SHADOW OF HISTORY by Chester Cooper. Prometheus Books, 2005.
WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program , by Gerald Shur and Pete Early, (with the William Morris Agency), 2002.
THE FIRE AND THE FURY by Jonathon Scott Fuqua . Candlewick Press Inc, 2006. Also , CATIE & JOSEPHINE, AN INNOVATIVE PHOTO-GRAPHIC NOVEL, with Steve Parke, Houghton Mifflin, 2003. DARBY (2000), PYGMY KING (2005) WILLOUGHBY SPIT WONDER (2002), Candlewick Press, and IN THE SHADOW OF EDGARD ALLAN POE , a graphic novel with Steve Parke, DC Comics/AOL Time Warner 2002.
FREEDOM'S SWORD, The NAACP and the Struggle Against Racism in America, 1901-1969 by Gilbert Jonas. Routlege, Fall 2004.
SECRETS TO WINNING AT OFFICE POLITICS by Marie McIntyre, Ph.D. St. Martin's Press, Spring 2005.
THERAPY DEMYSTIFIED by Kate Scharff, C.S.W. Marlowe & Company, Fall 2004.
UNWILLING MARTYR: The Life and Death of Jan Masaryk , by Susan Eisenhower, Wiley. Also, BREAKING FREE: A MEMOIR OF LOVE AND REVOLUTION , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995 (a personal chronicle of love, freedom and high politics in the final years of Soviet power), and MRS. IKE , Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
AGENT OF DESTINY, The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott by John S. D. Eisenhower. The Free Press, 1997.
FACE TIME and THE MAN WHO WROTE THE BOOK , Crown, 1999 & 2000; two novels by Erik Tarloff.
BLACK JACK LOGAN, An Extraordinary Life in Peace and War by Gary Ecelbarger. Lyons Press, 2005.
TALKING A GOOD GAME: A Bang-Up Batch of Baseball's Best Barbs, Banter & Bluster by Dick Crouser. Triumph Books, Spring 2004.
DEAR MRS. PRESIDENT, Eleanor Roosevelt and the American People Through Depression and War by Cathy Knepper. Carroll & Graf, Fall 2004.
SISTERS , by John Fialka, St. Martin's Press, 2002. Optioned for a public television documentary. Also, WAR BY OTHER MEANS: Economic Espionage in the 1990's , W. W. Norton, 1996.
A PROMISE TO REMEMBER , Michael Berenbaum, Becker & Mayer, 2002
THE TERRORIST NEXT DOOR , by Daniel Levitas, St. Martins Press, 2002
THE CAVES OF PERIGORD , a novel by Martin Walker, Simon & Schuster, 2002.
IN SEARCH OF DEEP THROAT , by Leonard Garment, Basic Books, 2000.
IN THE FOREST OF HARM and A DARKER JUSTICE by Sallie Bissell, Bantam Dell Books, 2000, 2001. Optioned for a movie by Marlo Thomas.
PLATO NOT PROZAC : Applying Philosophy to Everyday Problems, by Lou Marinoff, HarperCollins, 1999.
THE HOURS AFTER , post-war love letters of Kurt and academy Award winner Gerda Klein, St. Martin's Press, 2000.
THE KEEPER OF DREAMS , by Peter Shann Ford, Simon & Schuster, 2000.
COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the Face of America , by Congressman John Kasich, Doubleday, 1998.
CRIMES OF WAR , edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff, W. W. Norton, 1999.
A WITNESS TO GENOCIDE , by Roy Gutman, Lisa Drew Books, 1993, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize winning dispatches on the "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia.
DOING DIALOGUE: The Art of Converting Transactions into Relationships , by Daniel Yankelovich, Simon & Schuster, 1999.
DEAR SCOTT, DEAR ZELDA: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald , edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W.; Barks, St. Martin's Press, 2002.
BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS OF THE DAMNED , by Matthew McAllester, NYU Press, 2001.
YUGOSLAVIA'S RUIN: CAN ANYTHING BE LEARNED? by Cvijeto Job. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001
ROSE'S GARDEN , Algonquin, 1998 (Bantam paperback); optioned by VIACOM; and LAMB IN LOVE , Algonquin, 1999, both by Carrie Brown. (optioned)
CONARTIST , a collection of the best cartoons of multiple Pulitzer Prize cartoonist Paul Conrad, edited by Les Guthman, Los Angeles Times Books, 1999.
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HEIST, Superlobbyist Jack Bramoff, His Republican Allies, and the Buying of Washington by Peter H. Stone. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006. Optioned by Jigsaw Productions.
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY by Stanley Alpert. Putnam/Berkley Crime 2007.
AVOIDING ARMAGEDDON, Basic Books 2002, by Martin Schram, Companion book to Ted Turner Documentaries, 8-part PBS series.
ALMOST HEAVEN by Bettyann Hotlzmann Kevles. Basic Books 2003.
ATOMIC DIPLOMACY: HIROSHIMA COVER-UP, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995 (ABC, Peter Jennings television special, and BBVC/Antelope, UK, television production, July 1995. HBO movie, 2005.
VIETNAM: A HISTORY, Viking Books, 1983 (tie-in with WGBH multiple Emmy-winning public television series); IN OUR IMAGE: AMERICA'S EMPIRE IN THE PHILIPPINES, Random House, 1989 (tie-in with KCET public television series); and THE ASIANIZATION OF AMERICA, Random House, 2006, by Pulitzer Prize-winning Stanley Karnow.
A FLOWER IN THE SAND: A BIOGRAPHY OF GETRUDE BELL, by Janet Wallach, Doubleday (Nan Talese Books), Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1996, optioned for movie.
THE BRAIN, by Richard Restak, M.D., Bantam, 1984 (tie-in with WNET television series).
LIFE IN THE BALANCE, by David Rains Wallace, Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, Inc., 1987 (a book and television series in collaboration with the National Audubon Society, WETA and Turner Broadcasting System).
PORTRAIT OF THE U.S.S.R., by Fitzroy Maclean, Henry Holt, 1988 (a book tied to the Turner Broadcasting System cable television series).
LE CHEZ FRANCOIS COOKBOOK, by Jacques Haeringer, Reston Publishing, 1985. Also by Jacques Haeringer, TWO FOR TONIGHT, PBS weekly program, Gancie Television , Starbright Media
FACE TIME, by Erik Tarloff, Crown, 1999; in development Showtime.
OLE STROM: an Unauthorized Biography, by Jack Bass and Helen Thompson, Longstreet, 1998; (optioned) TAMING THE STORM, A BIOGRAPHY OF JUDGE FRANK M. JOHNSON, JR., by Jack Bass, Doubleday, 1993, winner of the 1994 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
HOMICIDE, by David Simon, hardcover Houghton Mifflin, paperback Fawcette, 1992; NBC television series directed by Barry Levinson.
BETTY FRIEDAN AND THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT, a television miniseries optioned by Screenscope, 1999.
WHEN CHUCK MET EVA, by Jefferson Morley, The Washington Post Magazine, published March 8, 1998, movie and television rights to New-U Pictures Development, 1998.
PEPPER: Eyewitness to a Century, by Claude Denson Pepper with Hays Gorey, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. Documentary by MainStreet, 1999.
TERROR IN THE NIGHT: THE KLAN'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE JEWS, by Jack Nelson, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, Simon & Schuster, 1993 (a Pulitzer Prize winner's docu-drama of a Mississippi case of terrorism and murder). Optioned for a movie.
THE POLITICS OF RAGE, by Dan T. Carter, Simon & Schuster, 1995. Optioned to Lorimar for a television miniseries.
THE LION AND THE DOVE: A Portrait of Claribel and Etta Cone, by Mary Gabriel, Bancroft, 2000. NOTORIOUS VICTORIA: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored, by Mary Gabriel, Algonquin, 1997, optioned for movie to Wes Craven Films.
ARAFAT: IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER, by John and Janet Wallach, Carol Publishing Group, 1990, and revised, updated edition, 1997. Foreign rights and television option sold to Showtime and Barwood.
WHO KILLED WAND FAY McCOY? THE TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF ROGER KEITH COLEMAN, by Julie Johnson, optioned for television movie by Laurel Film, Inc.
SOLITARY PLACES, a novel by Joan V. Schroeder, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1994; optioned by The Producers Entertainment Group.
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THE WORLD MUST KNOW, BY Michael Berenbaum, Little, Brown & Co., 1993.
THE STORY OF THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM, by Jeshajahu Weinberg, Rizzoli International Publications, 1995.
AND WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES; STORIES FROM THE HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, Rizzoli International Publications, 1999
ATLAS OF THE HOLOCAUST, book, and CD-ROM, MacMillan, 1995.
TELL THEM WE REMEMBER, by Susan Bachrach, Little, Brown & Company, 1993.
AUSCHWITZ, an anthology, edited by Israel Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, Indiana University Press, 1993.
THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING, by Israel Gutman, Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY, introductions by Vaclav Havel and Chaim Potok, Schocken Books, 1993.
DANIEL'S STORY, by Carol Matas, Scholastic Books, 1993 (children's novel).
HOPE SUSTAINS ME, by Ruth Elias, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998
EUROPA, EUROPA, by Solomon Perel, John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
THE POLITICS OF GENOCIDE, by Randolph Braham, Wayne State University Press, 1997.
HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES, An International Journal, Oxford University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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The Jazz Museum OF Harlem
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THE DAVID BALTIMORE STORY, by David J. Kevles, W.W. Norton and Company, 1998.
DEVICES AND DESIRES, by Andrea Tone, Hill and Wang, 2001.
EMERGING MARKETS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR INVESTORS AND CORPORATIONS, by Jeffery C. Hooke, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001
WHEN THEY TOOK AWAY THE MAN IN THE MOON, Harmony Books, 1993; and OUT OF EDEN, Harmony Books, 1996, both novels by Kate Lehrer.
AGENT OF DESTINY: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott, by John S. D. Eisenhower, Free Press, 1997.
JORDAN AND KING HUSSEIN, by Phillip Geyelin, Alfred A. Knopf.
AMERICAN CRUSADER: THE STRUGGLE OF HENRY A. WALLACE, by former Senator John C. Culver and John Hyde, W. W. Norton, 1999. theater performance sold.
BREAKING THROUGH GOD'S SILENCE, THEN THOUGHTS TO TAKE INTO ETERNITY, and SPIRITUAL SIMPLICITY by David Yount, Simon & Schuster, 1996, 19977, 1998.
HOMELAND AND WATERWAYS: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926, by Adele Alexander, Pantheon Books, 1999.
LEAP OF DEATH, The Rise and Decline of Camelot in Mexico, by M. Delal Baer, W. W. Norton, 1999.
LYNCHING: The Dark Metaphor, by Emma Jordan, Perseus/Basic Books.
ONE OF OURS: The Story of the Oklahoma City Bombing, by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Los Angeles Times reporter Richard Serrano, W. W. Norton, Inc., 1998.
THREE DOG NIGHTMARE, by Chuck Negron and Chris Blatchford, Renaissance Books, 1999.
BACKFIRE, The War on Affirmative Action, 1997; BIOGRAPHY OF AL GORE, 1999 by Robert Zelnick, Regnery Publishing, Inc.
FIREWALL: THE ANATOMY OF THE IRAN-CONTRA COVERUP, by Judge Lawrence E. Walsh, W. W. Norton, 1997.
SLEEPWALKING THROUGH HISTORY: AMERICA IN THE REAGAN YEARS, by Haynes Johnson, W. W. Norton, 1997.
A TREASURY OF ANGLICAN ART; Rizzoli Publishing, 2003; SIMPSON'S CONTEMPORARY QUOTATIONS, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. SIMPSON'S CONTEMPORARY QUOTATIONS, Revised Edition, by James B. Simpson, HarperCollins, 1997.
TO MAKE GENTLE THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD, THE SPEECHES OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY, by Edwin Guthman and C. Richard Allen, Viking Penguin, 1993.
INTERFERENCE: HOW ORGANIZED CRIME INFLUENCES PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL, William Morrfow & Company, 1989; EVIDENCE DISMISSED, Simon & Schuster, 1996; THE DEATH OF VINCENT FOSTER, Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1999; all by Dan Moldea.
DEMOCRACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE, by Morley Winograd and Dudley Buffa, Henry Holt & Co., 1996.
WARZONES, by Chris Giannou, W. H. Freedman and Company, 1999.
HOME ON THE RANGE: A CENTURY ON THE HIGH PLAINS, by James Dickenson, Scribner, 1995. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
MANDATE FOR CHANGE, edited by Will Marshall and Martin Schram, The Progressive Policy Institute, Berkely Books, 1993.
SOLDIERS, SPIES, AND THE RAT LINE: America's Undeclared War Against the Soviets, by Col. James v. Milano, USA (Ret.), and Patrick Brogan, Brassey's, 1996.
COMRADE VALENTINE, Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1994(the colorful, dramatic true story of a man with a triple life in Czarist Russia), and ALCHEMISTS OF REVOLUTION, Basic Books, 1987 (a study of terrorism in the modern world), both by Richard Rubenstein.
MORE PRECIOUS THAN PEACE, by Peter W. Rodman, Scribner, 1994.
JANET RENO, by Paul Anderson, John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
THE NEW SOUTH, by W. Hodding Carter, III, 2006.
COOKING IN A HEALTY WAY, by Nora Pouillon, Shibata Shoten, 1994.
DANCING IN THE STREETS, by Mark Bego and Martha Reeves, Hyperion, 1994; I'M A BELIEVER, by Mark Bego and Mickey Dolenz, Hyperion, 1993; MADONNA, Harmony Books, 1991; AND ICE ICE ICE , THE ATHORIZEDEXTRAOARDINARY VANILLA ICE STORY, by Dell, 1991; both by Mark Bego; and, ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER, Pharos Books, 1991, by Mark Bego and Kimmy Greenspoon. VINCE GILL: An Unauthorized Biography, by Mark Bego, Renaissance Books, 1998.
THE REAL MAJORITY, by Ben Wattenberg and Richard Scammohn, Donald I. Fine, Iknc., 1993.
THE COMEBACK KID, THE LIFE AND CAREER OF BILL CLINTON, by Charles F. Allen and Jonathan Portis, Birch Lane Press, 1992.
THE WHITECHAPEL HORRORS, a Sherlock Holmes novel by Edward B. Hanna, Carroll & Graf, 1992.
TURNING RIGHT: THE MAKING OF THE REHNQUIST SUPREME COURT, by David Savage, John Wiley, 1992.
THE POWER HOUSE, Susan Trento, St. Martin's Press, 1992.
THE ENDANGERED AND OTHER PROTECTED SPECIES: FEDERAL LAW AND REGULATION, by Richard Littell, The Bureau of National Affairs, 1992.
THE COLLEGE STUDENTS GUIDE TO TRANSFERRING SCHOOLS, by Jennifer Wilcha and David Smith, Avon Books, 1991.
ANASTASIA: THE LOST PRINCESS, a biography by James Blair Lovell, Regnery-Gateway, 1991; ande editions in Japanese, Dutch, and Spanish.
THE BEST CONGRESS MONEY CAN BUY, by Phillip Stern, paperback reprint, Regnery-Gateway, 1991.
HOW DID I GET HERE SO FAST? RHETORICAL QUESTIONS AND AVAILABLE ANSWERS FROM A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE, by Chalmers M. Roberts, Warner Books, 1991.
LAWYERS AND THIEVES, by Norman Roy Grutman and Bill Thomas, Simon & Schuster, 1990.
1492, a novel by Newton Frolich, St. Martin's Press, 1990.
SEE HOW THEY RUN: ELECTING A PRESIDENT IN AN AGE OF MEDIAOCRACY, by Paul Taylor, Washington Post correspondent, Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
CLAIMING THE HEAVENS, by Philip Boffey, William J. Broad, Leslie Gelb, Charles Mohr, and Holc Noble, Times books, 1987 (a Pulitzer Prize-winning guide to President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative by five New York Times reporters).
BREAKING INTO THE BOARDROOM, by Jinx Melia, Putnam, 1987 (women in business).
THE MONEY MANDARINS, by Howard M. Wachtel, Pantheon Books, 1985.
ACTS OF WILL: THE LIFE AND WORK OF OTTO FRANK, by E. James Lieberman, M.D., Free Press, 1985.
THE WAR MANAGERS, b y General Douglas Kinnard, Avery Publishers, 1985.
THE BEST RESTAURANTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., by Phyllis C. Richman, 101 Publishers, 1980.
RETURN FROM RED SQUARE, Luce, 1967, and THE TIME OF THEIR DYING, W. W. Norton, 1977, both by Stephen S. Rosenfeld, Washington Post editorial page deputy editor.
GENERAL MAXWELL TAYLOR: THE SWORD AND THE PEN, by John Taylor, Doubleday, 1989 (a definitive biography by the late general's son).
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MainStreet was founded twenty years ago by the eminent journalist Hodding Carter, III and Ronald Goldfarb, Washington, D.C. attorney, author and literary agent. When Carter left to run the Knight Foundation five years ago, Goldfarb assumed sole ownership. The backgrounds of the present board of directors are attached. The Internal Revenue Service has granted MainStreet 501 (c) (3) status.
Most of MainStreet's work has been with public television, although it has done contract work for public interest organizations. Capitol Journal, a weekly interview show, focused on Congress, and was hosted by Carter. We also produced a segment of Congress for the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour. Devil's Advocate was a weekly roundtable on legal issues, hosted by Goldfarb. Our one-hour documentary about Senator Sam Ervin, The Last of the Founding Fathers, won that year's prestigious Ohio State Journalism award for documentaries. Another one- hour special on Senator Claude Pepper followed.
Last year's Desperate Hours recently won the District of Columbia's Independent Film Festival award as the year's best documentary, both the juried award and the audience award. Other documentaries are in the works, including the story of The Sonderkommandos, with original funding from Steven Spielberg's Righteous Persons Foundation.
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| Ronald Goldfarb |
Ronald Goldfarb, CEO of MAINSTREET, is a veteran Washington, D.C. attorney, author, and literary agent, with extensive experience in the business and performance sides of television. He served in the Department of Justice in the Kennedy Administration as a prosecutor of organized crime cases. He has headed his own law firm in Washington since 1966, and founded MAINSTREET in 1987. He is the author of ten well-reviewed books and hundreds of newspaper, magazine and journal articles. Goldfarb graduated from Syracuse University and Yale Law School, and served in the U.S. Air Force, JAG for three years. He is a member of the District of Columbia, New York, and California bars, and the bar of the United States Supreme Court.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Director, Production Management, AOL, LLC
Producer, Ditlev Films 2003-2004
Produce films and commercials for cutting edge independent production company. Current projects include the feature film "The F Word" and commercials for such clients as Cosmopolitan Magazine and Urban Box Office.
Business Manager, MTV Productions 2000-2003
Managed a diverse slate of series and specials for the channel, including specials (Rock n' Jock events, Beach House) and series (Made, Fanatic).
Production Manager, Children of Difference Foundation 2000
Co-Produced a documentary for HBO about trials and triumphs of people born with dwarfism.
Production Accountant
"Autumn in New York" Feature film shot in NYC 1999-2000
"Requiem for a Dream" Feature film shot in NYC 1999
"Random Hearts" Feature film shot in Wahington DC, Miami 1998
Director of New Media, Orion Pictures 1998-2000
Developed and produced numerous entertainment and educational CD-ROM's and web sites in association with studio's slate of feature films.
Director of Production, Management Plus 1996-1998
Organized the production activites of the film's roster of clients, including Shaquille O'Neal, Hakemm Olajuwan, and other professional athletes. Also managed the production of clients' grand creation, commercial images, online ventures and charitable causes.
Co-Producer/Line Producer
"Psalms from the Underground" Short film short in LA directed by Eric Lasalle 1998
Creative Executive, Thunderbird Pictures 1993-1996
Developed a slate of theatrical and cable films for independent film company.
Wrote and Produced PSA's for Loew's Theaters(Literacy, Stay in School).
EDUCATION
Princeton University, Class od 1990. BA, Politics with a Certificate in American Studies.
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| Suzanne Weil |
Suzanne Weil is a producer working in film, television and the performing arts.
She was formerly Executive Director of the Sundance Institute for Film and Television in Utah and Los Angeles; for eight years, she was the Senior Vice President for Programming and Public Information at the Public Television Service (PBS) in Washington DC following three years as Director of Arts and Humanities Programming there. Before joining PBS she was the director of the Dance Program at the National Endowment for the Arts. She began her career at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis where she ran the Performing Arts Program (from Miles Davis and Frank Zappa to Merce Cunningham and John Cage.)
Recent Projects include a tour for Garrison Keillor (The First Annual Pre-Millennium Tour); five national tours and a season at the State Theater at Lincoln Venter for Mikhail BaryShnikov's White Oak Dance Project; a documentary for General Motors "Our Crazy Mixed Up Culture" with host Buck Henry. And a series of films from Keillor's Prarie Home Companion for PBS.
Ongoing: a film about Frank Gehry directed by Sydney Pollack, for American Masters; indevelopment: a feature length film about Mikhail BaryShikov directed by Charles Atlas; A documentary series on BEAUTY with Lisa Ades, Orchard Films, New York, Lawrence Pitkethley, Strangford Films UK, Tamsin Moufflet, Cats and Dogs, Paris; BABBY BOOMERS with Producer/Director Phillip Rodriguez in Los Angeles.
She is currently a member of the Executive Committee for the Cunningham Dance Foundation (NYC); a board member of the Pick Up Performance Company, David and Ain Gordon, NYC; on the Executive Committee of the Board of UCLA LIVE (Los Angeles); Advisory Board/Baryshnikov Arts Center (NYC); and Advisory Board/Mainstreet Productions (Washington DC)
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| Hodding Carter |
Hodding Cartter became president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation on February 1, 1998. For the preceding three years he was the Knight professor of journalism at the University of Maryland, following 10 years as president of Mainstreet TV. From 1980 to 1995, he was involved as anchor, correspondent, panelist or producer of a number of public affairs series, documentaries and talk shows, winning four Emmys and the Edward R. Murrow Award. During the same period he was an op ed columnist for the Wall Street Jounrnal and latterly was a syndicated columnist with NEA. Following seventeen years with his family's daily newspaper, the Delta Democrat-Times of Greenville, Mississippi as reporter, managing editor and editor, he served as State Department spokesman under President Carter from 1977 to 1980. A graduate of Princeton University, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1965-1966. He served on the Princeton board of trustees from 1983-1998 and has been a trustee of the Century Foundation since 1969. The author of two books and contributor to nine others, he has written for numerous newspapers and magazines over the past 45 years. He is married to Patricia Derian, former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights under President Jimmy Carter. Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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| William Persky |
Bill Persky considers himself one of the luckiest people in the entertainment business. Not just for the 5 Emmy awards and three memorable series he has been associated with: The Dick Van Dyke Show; Creator of "That Girl" and Producer-head writer-Director of "Kate and Allie." It's that in his 40 year in Television and film, and over 500 productions, he only can think of a handful he isn't proud of, and only one experience he didn't enjoy, even though the picture was a success. He has never lost sight of the fact that he was in a business that was not only lucrative, but filled with great people and wonderful experiences.
"One day, while rehearsing a dance number for a Mary Tyler Moore Special, Mary came up to me, out of breath and sweating. She took a swig of my beer and asked, "Billy, what are the other people doing?" I knew what she meant. We were working at something we loved, filled with laughs, applause and rewards at every turn, and we should never lose sight of it.
The good fortune of working for, and being mentored by Carl Reiner was on the Van Dyke Show in the 60's was an education that led to everything that followed. He and his partner, Sam Denoff, wrote 45 episodes that resulted in 3 Emmy award, once being nominated for two in the same year. Creating and Executive Producing, "That Girl" for Marlo Thomas, resulted in 5 wonderful years on the air, "and to this day women from 15 to 50, tell me how it impacted their lives."
A decision to become a director led to the end of the partnership with Sam Denoff, but not before. They added another Emmy for Producing "The First Bill Cosby Special," in 1970. His directing career was largely in the area of Television pilots resulting in 18, of the 25 he directed going on the air as series. His favorite was the very special, "Who's the Boss?"
In 1982, after moving to New York, Bill was approached by CBS to develop a show they were interested in called, "Two Mommies," to star Jane Curtain and Susan St. James. It evolved into "Kate and Allie" and led to an Emmy as best director in 1983.
After 5 years of Kate and Allie there was one more series, "Working it Out," that was at once his greatest love and greatest disappointment. With rave reviews and a chance at a really breakthrough show, it's time slot, which it won, never exposed it to the audience for which it was intended. He refused to continue doing it unless it was moved. It wasn't, so Bill moved on to more personal pursuits: writing screen plays, teaching and mentoring young writers and performers.
It was more satisfying then fighting a business that had become more respectful of youth, than experience, and talent. That said, he is presently writing a comedy pilot, with partner John Markus, which they sold to NBC for the 2005 season. It's really turning into a great and unexpected experience and one without pressure because, "I don't need the money and I won't accept aggravation. At 73, with a great wife, great kids and great friends, why should I?"
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