Jack Newfield

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File:Village Voice offices on Cooper Square in New York City.jpg office of the Village Voice, where Newfield contributed over 700 published articles over his career]]

Jack Abraham Newfield (February 18, 1938 – December 20, 2004) was an American journalist, columnist, author, documentary filmmaker and activist. Newfield wrote for the Village Voice, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Sun, New York, Parade, Tikkun, Mother Jones, and The Nation and monthly columns for several labor union newspapers.{{cite news|last1=Amateau|first1=Albert|title=Jack Newfield, 66, journalist, Villager, club critic|url=http://thevillager.com|issue=33|newspaper=The Villager|date=December 22, 2004|volume=74}}{{cite magazine|title=Editorials & Comment - Jack Newfield|url=http://www.thenation.com/|issue=2|magazine=The Nation|date=January 1, 2005|volume=280}} In his autobiography, Somebody's Gotta Tell It: The Upbeat Memoir of a Working-Class Journalist (2002), Newfield said, "The point is not to confuse objectivity with truth."{{cite book|last1=Newfiled|first1=Jack|title=Somebody's Gotta Tell It: The Upbeat Memoir of a Working Class Journalist|date=2002|publisher=Saint Martin's Press|location=New York|page=53 |isbn=978-0312269005}}

A career beat reporter, Newfield wrote prolifically about modern society, culture, and politics, on a range of topics relevant to urban life, such as municipal corruption, the police, and labor unions, and also professional sports, especially baseball and boxing, as well as contemporary music.{{cite news|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|title=Who Really Invented Rock-n-Roll|url=http://www.nysun.com|newspaper=The New York Sun|date=September 21, 2004}}{{cite news|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|title=Jackie Robinson Statue Assured|url=http://www.nysun.com|newspaper=The New York Sun|date=October 1, 2004}}{{citation |last1=Newfield |first1=Jack|title=Behind the Badge |publisher =PBS|work=Frontline|date =December 14, 1993}} He wrote numerous books about modern social and political subjects, including A Prophetic Minority (1966) and Robert Kennedy: A Memoir (1969). He received the American Book Award for The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania about New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.{{cite web |author=American Booksellers Association |title=The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2012] |date=2013 |url=http://www.bookweb.org/btw/awards/The-American-Book-Awards---Before-Columbus-Foundation.html |work=BookWeb |quote=2003 [...] The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania, Jack Newfield |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313174235/http://bookweb.org/btw/awards/The-American-Book-Awards---Before-Columbus-Foundation.html |archive-date=March 13, 2013 |access-date=September 25, 2013}}

Early life and education

File:35 Charlton Street entrance.jpg, where Newfield lived for most of his life]]

Newfield was born and grew up in the Bedford–Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, where he was primarily raised by his mother, Ethel (Tuchman) Newfield. When he was four years old, his father, Phillip Newfield, died of a heart attack.{{cite news|last1=Schudel|first1=Matt|title=Muckraking N.Y. Reporter Jack Newfield Dies at 66 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21116-2004Dec22.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=December 23, 2004|page=B08}} An only child, Newfield was a latchkey kid. The ethos of his upbringing led him to establish a professional approach he identified as "advocacy journalism".{{cite web|title=Newfield, Jack|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com|website=encyclopedia.com|publisher=The Schribner Encyclopedia of American Lives}}

Newfield completed his secondary education at Brooklyn's Boys High School before receiving his B.A. in journalism from Hunter College in 1960. While at Hunter, he wrote pamphlets for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ("SNCC") and articles for the Hunter Arrow student newspaper. During the 1960s, he was drawn to the Civil Rights Movement and the antiwar New Left politics of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) under the tutelage of Michael Harrington. He was arrested in the South at a sit-in in 1963 and spent two days in a Mississippi jail with Michael Schwerner, who was murdered in that state in June 1964 with James Chaney and Andrew Goodman.{{cite book|last1=Dittmer|first1=John|title=Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi|url=https://archive.org/details/localpeoplestrug00ditt|url-access=registration|date=May 1, 1995|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0252065071|page=560|edition=1st}}

Identifying as a populist, Newfield was from the outset a politically active journalist and author. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse to pay tax to protest against the Vietnam War,"Writers and Editors War Tax Protest", New York Post, January 30, 1968 and later became a sponsor of the War Tax Resistance project, which practiced and advocated tax resistance as a form of protest against the war."A Call to War Tax Resistance" The Cycle 14 May 1970, p. 7 By 1971, Newfield had begun to question the ideology of the New Left,{{cite book|last1=Carson|first1=Clayborne|title=In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s|date=April 3, 1995|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0674447271|url=https://archive.org/details/instrugglesnccbl00cars}} writing that "in its Weathermen, Panther and Yippee incarnations, [the New Left] seems anti-democratic, terroristic, dogmatic, stoned on rhetoric and badly disconnected from everyday reality".{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A-MCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39 | title=A Populist Manifesto: The Making of a New Majority | work=New York | date=1971-07-19 | access-date=6 January 2015 | author=Newfield, Jack | pages=39–46}}

Newfield served as a copy boy at the New York Daily Mirror and later became editor of the West Side News, a local weekly. He resided on Charlton Street in Greenwich Village for most of his adult life.

Career

=Journalism=

Newfield considered himself a "participatory journalist", involved in politics and advocacy. Inspired by Lincoln Steffens, Jacob Riis, and I.F. Stone, Newfield held himself to a professional standard of moral emotionalism.{{cite news|last1=Murphy|first1=Jarrett|title=Jack Newfield, 1938-2004|url=http://www.villagevoice.com|newspaper=The Village Voice|date=December 21, 2004}} On this he wrote, "Compassion without anger can become merely sentiment or pity. Knowledge without anger can stagnate into mere cynicism and apathy. Anger improves lucidity, persistence, audacity, and memory."{{cite news|last1=Barrett|first1=Wayne|title=Jack Newfield: 1938 - 2004|url=http://www.villagevoice.com|newspaper=The Village Voice|date=December 21, 2004}}

In 1964, he was hired by editor Dan Wolf to write for the Village Voice. Newfield said he set out to "combine activism with writing" and advised like-minded journalists to "create a constituency for reform and don't stop until you have made some progress or positive results." In 1968, Newfield covered the Chicago Democratic Convention, where he famously threw a typewriter from the window of his Chicago hotel at police that he saw beating demonstrators.Norman Mailer, Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the American Political Conventions of 1968 (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1969), 170-171.{{cite news|last1=Oliver|first1=Myrna|title=Jack Newfield, 66; Newspaper Columnist, Expert on New York|url=https://www.latimes.com/|newspaper=LA Times|date=December 22, 2004|access-date=January 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100510102028/http://articles.latimes.com/|archive-date=May 10, 2010|url-status=live}} By 1988, Newfield had contributed 700 articles to the newspaper over 24 years on staff as a reporter, columnist and senior editor. From 1988, Newfield was editor and writer in an investigative reporting unit at the New York Daily News. Ardently pro-labor, he made a principled choice to support a 1990 strike by the newspaper's unionized reporters and refused to cross the picket line, resigning his editorship.{{cite news|last1=McLeary|first1=Paul|title=Trench Tales|url=https://www.januarymagazine.com/biography/somebodysgotta.html|publisher=January Magazine}} Review of Somebody's Gotta Tell It by Jack Newfield Shortly thereafter, he joined the New York Post as a columnist.[http://www.thevillager.com/villager_86/jacknewfield66.html Albert Amateau, "Jack Newfield, 66, journalist, Villager, club critic"], The Villager, Dec. 22-28, 2004 After conservative publisher Rupert Murdoch resumed ownership of the publication, Newfield wrote columns and investigative articles for The New York Sun, The New York Observer and The Nation.

In 1980, the Center for Investigative Reporting awarded Newfield the George Polk Award for Political Reporting, and he received a New York State Bar Association Special Award in 1986 for his series of articles on wrongfully convicted Bobby McLaughlin. In 2000, he was honored with the 25-Year News Achievement Award from the Society of the Silurians. Since 2006, Hunter College awards the Jack Newfield Professorship each spring to a distinguished journalist representative of his legacy of investigative journalism.{{cite news|last1=Hamill|first1=Denis|title=Jack Newfield: Defender of the city that made him|url=http://www.nydailynews.com|newspaper=Daily News|date=December 7, 2007}}

=Author and filmmaker =

Newfield authored books about contemporary political and social phenomena. Newfield wrote A Prophetic Minority (1967), his account of the early 1960s civil rights movement, the formation of the SNCC, the voter registration initiative in Mississippi, the expansion of the SNCC to include white students and the rise of SDS. A year later, The New York Times called Newfield's book Robert Kennedy: A Memoir (1969) a "a perceptive and moving book", and it was received again when it was reissued in 2003, on the 35th anniversary of Kennedy's murder.{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=George|title=New & Noteworthy|url=https://www.nytimes.com|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 17, 1988}} Newfield was traveling with Kennedy and his campaign when the senator from New York was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles on in June 1968.[http://www.thevillager.com/villager_86/jacknewfield66.html Amateau, "Jack Newfield"] He endeavors to separate "the man from the myth" in his first-hand accounted of the assassinated politician.{{cite web|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|title=Jack Newfield, Looking for the Man in the RFK Myth|url=https://www.npr.org|website=National Public Radio|publisher=June 4, 2008}} He wrote about Kennedy, "Part of him was soldier, priest, radical, and football coach. But he was none of these. He was a politician; His enemies said he was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was."

Newfield and Jeff Greenfield co-authored A Populist Manifesto: The Making Of A New Minority (1972), an elaboration on their ideas about civic reform, relevant to the banking and insurance industries, utilities, regulatory agencies, land reform, the media, crime, health care, labor unions and foreign policy.{{cite book|last1=Applegate|first1=Edd C.|title=Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors|date=1996|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Conn.|isbn=978-0313299490|page=[https://archive.org/details/literaryjournali00appl/page/326 326]|url=https://archive.org/details/literaryjournali00appl/page/326}} With Paul Du Brul, he co-wrote The Abuse of Power: The Permanent Government and the Fall of New York (Viking Press, 1977) and the revised edition, The Permanent Government: Who Really Rules New York? (Pilgrim Press, 1981), considered classics in urban muckraking.{{cite journal|last1=Shefter|first1=M.|title=Book Review: The Permanent Government: Who Really Rules New York?|journal=Administrative Science Quarterly|date=June 1, 1983|volume=28|issue=2|pages=319–321|url=https://www.worldcat.org|issn=0001-8392|doi=10.2307/2392634|jstor=2392634}}{{cite journal|last1=Tabb|first1=W.K.|title=Book Review: The Abuse of Power: The Permanent Government and the Fall of New York|journal=Science & Society|date=October 1, 1979|volume=43|issue=3|pages=362–366|issn=0036-8237}}{{cite journal|last1=Katznelson|first1=I.|title=Book Review: The Abuse of Power: The Permanent Government and the Fall of New York|journal=The American Political Science Review|date=June 1, 1979|volume=73|issue=2|pages=595–596|url=https://www.worldcat.org|issn=0003-0554|doi=10.2307/1954940|jstor=1954940|s2cid=142346165 }}{{cite web|title=Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (2005) |url=https://www.imdb.com |website=IMDb |access-date=25 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621183548/http://www.imdb.com/ |archive-date=21 June 2014 }}{{cite journal|last1=Dolan|first1=P.|title=Book Review: Abuse of Power: The Permanent Government and the Fall of New York|journal=Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science|volume=435|pages=322–323|url=https://www.worldcat.org|issn=0002-7162|doi=10.1177/000271627843500146|s2cid=144973331}}

In City for Sale (1988), Newfield and longtime Village Voice collaborator Wayne Barrett chronicled patronage-driven municipal corruption in New York during the three-term mayoralty of Ed Koch.{{cite news|last1=Alter|first1=Jonathan|title='THE MAYOR WHO DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW'|url=https://www.nytimes.com|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 15, 1989}}{{cite book|last1=Mollenkopf|first1=John Hull|title=A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York|date=August 23, 1994|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, New Jersey|isbn=978-0691036731|page=[https://archive.org/details/phoenixinashesri0000moll/page/280 280]|url=https://archive.org/details/phoenixinashesri0000moll/page/280}} In 2003, Newfield's acerbic critique of the mayoralty of Rudy Giuliani, The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania (2002), received the American Book Award. City of Rich and Poor: Jack Newfield on New York, a 2003 PBS documentary, was based on "How the Other Half Still Lives", a contemporaneous Newfield article published in The Nation.{{cite magazine|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|title=How the Other Half Still Lives|url=http://www.thenation.com|magazine=The Nation|date=March 17, 2003}} In 1988, Robert Kennedy: A Memoir was adapted into an acclaimed documentary, which Newfield wrote and co-directed.{{cite news|last1=Matthews|first1=Wallace|title=Jack Newfield: Champion of the Underdog|url=http://www.nysun.com|newspaper=The New York Sun|date=December 22, 2004}} He was writer and reporter of JFK, Hoffa and the Mob, a 1992 PBS documentary.

Newfield advocated for professional boxers to be viewed as members of the "exploited working class".{{cite web|title=The Jack Newfield Collection|url=http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu|website=Brooklyn College Library|quote=Mr. Newfield advocated for the rights of professional prize fighters who he viewed as 'exploited workers.'|access-date=25 January 2016|ref=Accession #2008-019}} He wrote and produced documentaries about professional boxing, including Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993), Sugar Ray Robinson: Bright Lights, Dark Shadows, (HBO, 1998; co-producer), The Making of Bamboozled (2001) and Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (2005).{{cite web|title=Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993) |url=https://www.imdb.com |website=IMDb |access-date=25 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621183548/http://www.imdb.com/ |archive-date=21 June 2014 }}{{cite web|title=Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright Lights and Dark Shadows of a Champion (1998) |url=https://www.imdb.com |website=IMDb |access-date=25 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621183548/http://www.imdb.com/ |archive-date=21 June 2014 }}{{cite web|title=The Making of 'Bamboozled' (2001) |url=https://www.imdb.com |website=IMDb |access-date=25 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621183548/http://www.imdb.com/ |archive-date=21 June 2014 }}{{cite web|title=Jack Newfield: Biography |url=https://www.imdb.com |website=IMDb |access-date=25 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621183548/http://www.imdb.com/ |archive-date=21 June 2014 }} In 1991, he was a contributing reporter and writer to the documentary Don King Unauthorized (Frontline & Stuart Television, 1991), which aired on PBS.{{cite web|title=Don King, Unauthorized (5 Nov. 1991) |url=https://www.imdb.com |website=IMDb |publisher=Frontline: Season 9, Episode 18 |access-date=25 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621183548/http://www.imdb.com/ |archive-date=21 June 2014 }}{{cite magazine|last=Huff|first=Richard|title=Television Reviews: Don King, Unauthorized|magazine=Daily Variety|date=November 5, 1991|page=11}} Shortly thereafter, he authored Only in America The Life and Crimes of Don King in 1995, a story serialized in Penthouse and then adapted it into a 1997 Emmy Award-winning HBO biopic, Don King: Only in America, directed by John Herzfeld, starring Ving Rhames.{{cite web|title=Don King: Only In America |url=https://www.imdb.com |website=IMDb |access-date=25 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621183548/http://www.imdb.com/ |archive-date=21 June 2014 }}

=Activism=

Newfield was an investigative reporter who wrote openly about social reform. His articles often influenced the media and public policy. Notable examples include the creation of a law banning the use of lead paint in apartments, changes in campaign finance laws, the prosecution of corruption and enforcement of regulations to protect the elderly in nursing homes. His series of articles on wrongly convicted and imprisoned Brooklyn resident Bobby McLoughlin helped to exonerate and release him from prison in 1986.{{cite book|last1=Radelet|first1=Michael L.|last2=Bedau|first2=Hugo Adam|last3=Putnam|first3=Constance E.|title=In Spite Of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases|publisher=Northeastern Publisher|isbn=978-1555531973|page=400|year=1994}}

Historians of the political movement against lead poisoning in the U.S. trace its origins to the American civil rights and environmental movements, and acknowledge Newfield's series of newspaper articles in New York City about the tragic consequences of lead poisoning, beginning in 1969, for exposing the lead scandal, and then-Mayor John Lindsay's initiation of the first lead poison prevention program, a model for other urban areas.{{cite news|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|title=Silent Epidemic In The Slums|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/|issue=3|newspaper=The Village Voice|date=September 18, 1969}}{{cite news|last1=Gonzales|first1=Juan|title=SPEAKER'S FLAKY IN LEAD POISON FIGHT|url=http://www.nydailynews.com|publisher=The New York Daily New|date=June 10, 2003}}{{cite book|editor1-last=Packard|editor1-first=Randall M.|editor2-last=Berkelman|editor2-first=Ruth L.|editor3-last=Frumkin|editor3-first=Howard|editor4-last=Brown|editor4-first=Peter J.|title=Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda|date=July 30, 2004|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=978-0801879425|page=235|edition=1st}}{{cite journal|last1=Keelan|first1=Goeff|last2=Goodlet|first2=Kirk W|title=The "Silent Epidemic" of Lead Poisoning|journal=Clio's Current|date=July 17, 2014|url=http://scholar.aci.info|issn=2374-1406}}

From 1999 to 2004, Newfield wrote a series of columns advocating for the idea of a memorial honoring Jackie Robinson (1919–1972), legendary for his role as the first black professional baseball player in the major leagues, and Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team captain Pee Wee Reese, who together made history. In 2005, a commemorative sculpture by William Behrends was installed at the center of a circular lawn and perimeter walkway designed by Ken Smith, inscribed with commentary related to the lives and achievements of the athletes, in front of a Brooklyn ball field, Key Span Park.{{cite news|last1=Berkow|first1=Ira|title=Two Men Who Did the Right Thing|url=https://www.nytimes.com|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 2, 2005}}

Still working until the end of his life, Jack Newfield died in New York City, succumbing to kidney cancer on December 20, 2004, at the age of 66.{{cite news|last1=Martin|first1=Douglas|title=Jack Newfield, 66, Proud Muckraker, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 22, 2004}}

=Awards and recognition=

Newfield received the American journalism George Polk Award in 1979 for reporting on politics at the Village Voice.{{cite web | publisher=Long Island University | work=Political Reporting | url=http://www.liu.edu/Polk/Articles/Past-Winners | title=George Polk Awards, Past Award Winners | access-date=2 December 2014}}

=Selected bibliography=

= Books =

Newfield, J., (1966). A Prophetic Minority. New York: New American Library.{{cite book|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|title=A Prophetic Minority|url=https://archive.org/details/propheticminorit00newf|url-access=registration|date=1966|page=212|publisher=New American Library|location=New York|oclc=230800}}
Newfield, J. (1969). Robert Kennedy: A Memoir. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.{{cite book|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|title=Robert Kennedy: A Memoir|date=1970|publisher=Jonathan Cape|location=London|isbn=978-0224618168|pages=318 pages}}
Newfield, J. (1971). Bread and Roses Too: Reporting About America. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.{{cite book|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|title=Bread and Roses Too: Reporting About America|date=1971|publisher=E.P. Dutton & Co.|location=New York|isbn=978-0525070856|page=[https://archive.org/details/breadrosestoo00newf/page/429 429]|edition=1st|url=https://archive.org/details/breadrosestoo00newf/page/429}}
Newfield, J. (1974). Cruel and Unusual Justice: From Incompetence to Corruption, The Failure of Our Courts and Prisons. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.{{cite book|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|title=Cruel and Unusual Justice|date=1974|publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston|location=New York|isbn=978-0030110412|page=[https://archive.org/details/cruelunusualjust00newf/page/205 205]|edition=1st|url=https://archive.org/details/cruelunusualjust00newf/page/205}}
Newfield, J. (1984). The Education of Jack Newfield. New York: St. Martin's Press.{{cite book|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|title=The Education of Jack Newfield|date=1984|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0312237394|page=200|edition=1st}}
Newfield, J. (1995) Only in America: The life and Crimes of Don King. New York: William Morrow.{{cite book|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|title=Only In America; The Life and Crimes of Don King|date=1995|publisher=William Morrow|location=New York|isbn=978-0688101237|pages=xiii, 352 pages, [14] pages of plates: illustrations; 24 cm|url=https://archive.org/details/onlyinamericalif00newf|url-access=registration}}
Newfield, J. (2002). The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books.{{cite book|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|title=The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania|date=2002|publisher=Thunder Mouth's Press/Nation Books|location=New York|page=176|url=https://www.worldcat.org}}
Newfield, J. (2002). Somebody's Gotta Tell It: The Upbeat Memoir of a Working-Class Journalist. New York: Saint Martin's Press.{{cite book|title=Somebody's Gotta Tell It: The Upbeat Memoir of a Working-Class Journalist|date=2002|publisher=St. Martin Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0312269005|pages=xii, 336 pages|edition=1st|url=https://archive.org/details/somebodysgottate00newf|url-access=registration}}
Newfield, J. (ed.) (2003). American Rebels. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books.{{cite book|editor1-last=Newfield|editor1-first=Jack|title=American Rebels|date=2003|publisher=Thunder's Mouth/Nation Books|location=New York|isbn=978-1560255437|pages=xv, 368 pages|edition=1st|url=https://archive.org/details/americanrebels00newf|url-access=registration}}

= Co-authored books =

Newfield, J., & Grossman, R. (1966). Animal Ranch: The Great American Fable. New York: Parallax Pub. Co.{{cite journal|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|last2=Grossman|first2=Robert|title=Animal Ranch: The Great American Fable|journal=Monocle Periodicals|date=1966|volume=5|issue=5|pages=63 pages: illustrations; 21 cm|oclc=1497726}}
Newfield, J., & Greenfield, J. (1972). A Populist Manifesto: The Making of a New Majority. New York: Praeger.{{cite book|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|last2=Greenfield|first2=Jeff|title=A Populist Manifesto: The Making of a New Majority|url=https://archive.org/details/populistmanifest00newf|url-access=registration|date=1972|page=[https://archive.org/details/populistmanifest00newf/page/221 221]|publisher=Praeger Publishers|location=Washington|oclc=635986484}}
Newfield, J., & DuBrul, P. (1977).The Abuse of Power: The Permanent Government and the Fall of New York. New York: Pilgrim Press.{{cite book|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|last2=Du Brul|first2=Paul|title=The Abuse of Power: The Permanent Government and the Fall of New York|date=1977|publisher=Viking Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0670102044|pages=xiv, 368 pages, [7] leaves of plates: illustrations; 24 cm|edition=1st|url=https://www.worldcat.org}}
Newfield, J., & DuBrul, P., (1981) The Permanent Government: Who Really Rules New York? The Pilgrim Press.{{cite book|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|last2=Du Brul|first2=Paul|title=The Permanent Government: Who Really Rules New York?|date=1981|publisher=Pilgrim Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0829804669|page=[https://archive.org/details/permanentgovernm00newf/page/304 304]|edition=1st editton|url=https://archive.org/details/permanentgovernm00newf/page/304}}
Newfield, J., & Barrett, W. (1988). City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York. New York: Harper & Row.{{cite book|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|title=City For Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York|date=1988|publisher=Harper & Row|location=New York|isbn=978-0060160609|url=https://archive.org/details/cityforsaleedkoc00newf|url-access=registration}}
Newfield, J., & Jacobson, M. (2004). American Monsters: 44 Rats, Blackhats, and Plutocrats. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press.{{cite book|last1=Newfield|first1=Jack|last2=Jacobson|first2=Mark|title=American Monsters: 44 Rats, Blackhats, and Plutocrats|date=2004|publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press|location=New York|isbn=978-1560255543|pages=xv, 377 pages|url=https://www.worldcat.org}}

= Reporting, selected =

"More Bad Judges". The Nation, January 8, 2004. 278, 3, 7.
The Meaning of Muhammad". The Nation, January 17, 2002. '274, 4, 25.
"B.B. King: Legend, Icon, American Original ... I Put Everything In The Song". The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 28, 2003.
"Plenty of Nothing in New York: Governor Pataki's effective Gary Cooper imitation leaves Democrats in despair". The Nation, October 24, 2002, 275, 16, 18.
"The Shame of Boxing: The fighters are powerless workers in need of rights and justice". The Nation, November 12, 2001, 273, 15, 13.
"Can Mark Green Heal NYC?: New York's Democratic mayoral primary revealed the city's racial fault lines". The Nation, October 18, 2001, 273, 14, 20.
"An Interview with Michael Moore". Tikkun, November - December, 1998. 13.6: 25–29.{{cite web|title=Notable Biographies: Michael Moore Biography|url=http://www.notablebiographies.com|website=Encyclopedia of World Biography}}
"Remembering John F. Kennedy Jr." TV Guide, July 3 to August 6, 1999.
"Stallone vs. Springsteen". Playboy, April 1986, p. 116-117+188-191.
"Of Honest Men & Good Writers". The Village Voice, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 20
"Congressman Ed Koch is misleading the readers of The Voice". The Village Voice, 13, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 2
"The Death of Liberalism". Playboy, April 1971.
"Blowin' in the Wind: A Folk-Music Revolt". The Village Voice, January 14, 1965, Vol. X, No. 13
"MacDougal at Midnight: A Street Under Pressure". The Village Voice, April 8, 1965, Vol. X, No. 25
"The Liberals' Big Stick: Ready for the SNCC??" Cavalier, June 1965, 33.
"Jack Newfield and Robert Kennedy: A Lunch that Launched a Memoir". The Village Voice, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 34.
"Campus Across The River: Cause Without A Rebel". The Village Voice, May 20, 1965, Vol. X, No. 31
"Bobby Kennedy In The Village". The Village Voice, October 8, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 51{{cite web|last1=Tony|first1=Ortega|author-link=Tony Ortega|title=Bobby Kennedy In The Village|url=http://www.villagevoice.com|website=The Village Voice Archive|publisher=The Village Voice|access-date=August 10, 2009}}

= Contributory works =

Newfield, J. (1990) "Introduction" in Gunter Temech, Photographer. The Lost Supper/The Last Generation, Gegenschein Press.

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Berliner, Eve [http://www.evesmag.com/newfield.htm "Jack Newfield: From the Radical Outpost"] Eve's Magazine
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