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.
Books in order of publication:
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School, New York: Harper and Row (1990)
Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church, New York: HarperCollins (1993)
The Inheritance: How Three Families Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond, New York: Simon & Schuster (1996)
Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry, New York: Simon & Schuster (2000)
Who She Was: A Son’s Search for His Mother’s Life, New York: Simon & Schuster (2005)
Letters to a Young Journalist, New York: Basic Books (2006, revised and updated in 2011)
Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights, New York: Simon & Schuster (2013)
Into the Bright Sunshine, Oxford University Press (2023)
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