Books by David Margolick and Complete Book Reviews

David Margolick, Author . Knopf $26.95 (423p) ISBN 978-0-375-41192-2
Fought with thunderclouds of war on the horizon, the 1938 heavyweight rematch between Detroit's Joe Louis and Germany's Max Schmeling qualifies as the sort of sporting event that coalesces into a symbolic moment with much larger themes. The...
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David Margolick, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06425-9
The ``largest, costliest, ugliest, most spectacular and most conspicuous'' inheritance contest in American history here receives thorough, incisive and dramatic treatment from New York Times legal affairs correspondent Margolick. In 1971, 76-year-old
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David Margolick. Yale Univ., $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-300-14193-1
Vanity Fair contributing editor Margolick (Beyond Glory) brings his considerable skill to telling a tale many may, mistakenly, think they already know. Bound together in the iconic photograph of the integration of Little Rock's Central High School...
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David Margolick. Other Press, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-159051-571-6
Margolick’s dutiful profile of writer John Horne Burns—whose successful 1947 novel The Gallery was followed by two ill-received titles—fills a needed hole in American literary biography. Margolick (Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock)...
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David Margolick, Author, Cassandra Wilson, Foreword by Running Press Book Publishers $18.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7624-0677-7
In 1939, at Greenwich Village's Left-wing Caf Society, Billie Holiday gave the first public performance of a song whose lyrics tender a gory vision of a lynched black man hanging from a tree. The song, ""Strange Fruit,"" became one of Holiday's...
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David Margolick. Rosetta Books, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-1-948122-26-9
Vanity Fair editor Margolick (Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock) provides an enlightening perspective on Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., two iconic figures linked in the popular mind by shared agendas and tragic deaths. But
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David Margolick, Author, Elliott Banfield, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $22.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-671-88787-2
From 1987 to 1994, Margolick, a lawyer turned reporter, explored the American legal system for the New York Times from just about every angle. This he did with considerable skill, wit and an elegant turn of phrase that bordered ever so slightly on...
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