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Samuel G. Freedman

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in New York, NY, The United States

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Nonfiction, History

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Samuel G. Freedman is a columnist for The New York Times and a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of seven acclaimed books, most recently "Breaking The Line," and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. ...more

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	Fences (August Wilson's Century Cycle, 6) by August Wilson, Samuel G. Freedman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.89 avg rating — 31,685 ratings — published 1986 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights 4.32 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters to a Young Journalist 3.93 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School 3.88 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 1990 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry 3.82 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights 4.15 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Upon This Rock : The Miracles of a Black Church 3.81 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who She Was: My Search for My Mother's Life 3.79 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The INHERITANCE: HOW THREE FAMILIES AND THE AMERICAN POLITICAL MAJORITY MOVED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT 3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dying Words: The AIDS Reporting of Jeff Schmalz and How It Transformed the New York Times by Samuel G. Freedman (Goodreads Author), Kerry Donahue 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A novelist who has to defend his creation by telling a reader *But that’s what really happened*, is a novelist who has failed.”
― Samuel G. Freedman, Letters to a Young Journalist

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“When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.”
― Samuel G. Freedman

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“As he explained in one notably candid moment, “Religion and patriotism, keep going on that. It’s the only way you can get them really het up.”120”
― Samuel G. Freedman, Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights

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