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{{short description|American journalist}} |
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'''James Murray Kempton''' (December 16, 1917 – May 5, 1997) was an American [[journalist]] and [[Advocacy journalism|social and political commentator]]. He won a [[National Book Award]] in 1974 [[List of winners of the National Book Award#Current|(category, "Contemporary Affairs"]]) for ''The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al.''<ref name=nba1974> |
'''James Murray Kempton''' (December 16, 1917 – May 5, 1997) was an American [[journalist]] and [[Advocacy journalism|social and political commentator]]. He won a [[National Book Award]] in 1974 [[List of winners of the National Book Award#Current|(category, "Contemporary Affairs"]]) for ''The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al.''<ref name=nba1974> |
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