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Harry Golden: an affable, light hearted crank – your prototypical bombastic cigar chomping newspaperman. 

A New Yorker who moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, he offers commentary on everything ranging from racism to rocking chairs, the Borscht Belt to Miami Beach, the American middle class to coal miner strikes.

These editorial snippets are fun but outdated. Yet even where they’ve run out of relevance, they are an interesting socio-historical-cultural study of the United States in 1960, particularly the South, at a time when the desegregation and anti-racism movement was in full swing and met with heavy resistance. Martin Luther King was still alive. The Little Rock 9 were recent news. 

Golden also includes a section romanticizing his childhood in the immigrant neighbourhoods of the Lower East Side of the early 20th century.

He would have made an excellent contributor to this site’s ‘Speakers’ Corner.’ His views are balanced and sensibly liberal: Urging people to help the little guy and keep their eyes on the better future that is the promise of America, while taking care not to completely cut off their roots.