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Articles
Andrew Cockburn, Party Walls: Walter Karp’s enduring view of the establishment, Harper’s, November 2022.
Byron Dobell, Walter Karp, The Centurian, Winter 1989. (Annual publication of The Century Association)
Roy Karp, He has been gone now for 30 years; we miss his clear-tone political voice, The Dorchester Reporter, July 3, 2019.
Jane Karp, Interview with Walter Karp, American Heritage, November 1989.
Lewis Lapham, Notebook: Walter Karp (1934-1989).” Harper’s Magazine, October, 1989.
Patricia Marx, Interview with Walter Karp, WNYC Radio, exact date unknown, circa 1970.
Eric Pace, Walter Karp, writer, is dead at 55, The New York Times, July 20, 1989.
Studs Terkel, Interview about All the Congressmen’s Men, WMFT Radio, Chicago, June 29, 1989.
Awards
Finalist for National Book Award (1974): Indispensable Enemies
Project Censored, Top Ten Censored Stories (1985): “Liberty Under Siege: The Reagan Administration’s Taste for Autocracy”
Free Press Association, H.L. Menken Award, Nominated for Best Feature Story or Essay (1986): “Liberty Under Siege: The Reagan Administration’s Taste for Autocracy”
People for the American Way, First Amendment Journalism Award (1986): “Liberty Under Siege: The Reagan Administration’s Taste for Autocracy”
National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism (Nominated, 1986): “Liberty Under Siege: The Reagan Administration’s Taste for Autocracy”
Playboy Foundation, Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award (1987)
Free Press Association, H.L. Menken Award for Best Feature Story or Essay (1990): “All the Congressmen’s Men: How Capital Hill Controls the Press”
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