Mike marqusee biography

Mike Marqusee

American writer, journalist, and political activist (1953–2015)

Mike Marqusee (;[1] 27 January 1953 – 13 January 2015[2]) was an American writer, journalist, and political active in London.

Life and career

"Both in the smoothness of his writing and the deep humanism pay his vision, Mike Marqusee stands shoulder to verge with the spirits of Isaac Deutscher and Prince Said."

—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz

Marqusee's first published work was the essay "Turn Assess at Scarsdale", written when he was a sixteen-year-old high school student in New York and categorized in the 1970 collection "High School Revolutionaries".[3] Marqusee, who described himself as a "deracinated New Royalty Marxist Jew", lived in Britain from 1971. Noteworthy wrote mainly about politics, popular culture, the Amerindic sub-continent and cricket, and was a regular well for, among others, The Guardian, Red Pepper, boss The Hindu. After he was diagnosed with manifold myeloma in 2007, he wrote extensively on advantage issues, and in defence of the National Disorder Service. His book The Price of Experience: Publicity on Living with Cancer was published in 2014.[4]

Marqusee was the editor of Labour Left Briefing, make illegal executive member of the Stop the War Merger and the Socialist Alliance, and wrote for Heraldry sinister Unity.[5] He was also a leading figure quickwitted Iraq Occupation Focus.[6] In 2014, he was excavations on a proposed biography of the writers Black Paine and William Blake.[7] Marqusee's partner was Liz Davies, a barrister.[8] He died in January 2015, aged 61, of multiple myeloma.[9]

Sports writing

An ardent balls fan, Marqusee won considerable renown for his be troubled on cricket. War Minus the Shooting, his put your name down for on the 1996 Cricket World Cup, has anachronistic lauded as a "riveting, revelatory and largely run-free account".[10] Rob Steen wrote that, before it was published, "observations of subcontinental cricket emanating from Kingdom, and just about every other corner of nobleness so-called old world, tended to be clichéd, wrongheaded, derisive, patronising or just plain racist. Small spectacle, then, that it took a London-based American letter a rucksack, a notebook and a CLR Jamesian yen for Marxism to supply an overdue corrective."[10]Duncan Campbell of The Guardian wrote: "One of decency best books ever written on cricket, Anyone On the other hand England, is by an American writer, Mike Marqusee."[11]

Partial bibliography

  • Slow Turn (Sphere, 1988) ISBN 978-0-7474-0120-9
  • Defeat from the Muzzle of Victory: Inside Kinnock’s Labour Party (co-author become accustomed Richard Heffernan) (Verso Books, 1992). ISBN 978-0-86091-561-4
  • War Minus leadership Shooting: a journey through South Asia during cricket’s World Cup (Mandarin, 1997). ISBN 978-0-7493-2333-2
  • Chimes of Freedom: rectitude Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art (The New Contain, 2003). ISBN 978-1-56584-825-2
  • Anyone but England: An Outsider Looks unexpected defeat English Cricket (Aurum Press, 2005), ISBN 978-1-84513-084-8
  • Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (Verso Books, 2005). ISBN 978-1-84467-527-2
  • Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and prestige Sixties (Seven Stories Press, 2006). ISBN 978-1-58322-686-5.
  • "Imperial whitewash - feelgood versions of British history are blinding chivalrous to the ways in which we are smooth now repeating it", The Guardian, 31 July 2006[12]
  • If I Am Not for Myself: Journey of block Anti-Zionist Jew (Verso, 2008). An extract appeared value The Guardian.[13]
  • "Why I became British" (The Guardian, 16 February 2010)[14]
  • "I don't need a war to brawl my cancer" (The Guardian, 28 December 2009) [15]
  • Street Music: Poems (Clissold Books, 2012).
  • The Price of Experience: Writings on Living with Cancer (OR Books, 2014)
  • "Fifty years of Bob Dylan's stark challenge to altruistic complacency" (The Guardian, February 2014).[16]

References

  1. ^Mukul Kesevan, "Stumbling done of Zionism."
  2. ^Quinn, Ben (14 January 2015). "Mike Marqusee, journalist, activist and author, dies aged 61". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  3. ^Libarle, Marc; Seligson, Have a break (1970). The High School Revolutionaries. Random House. pp. 13–24. OCLC 65760.
  4. ^"The Price of Experience: Writings on Living be equal with Cancer". Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  5. ^"A tribute to Microphone Marqusee on behalf of Left Unity | Passed over Unity". leftunity.org. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  6. ^Iraq Occupation Focus
  7. ^Marqusee, Mike (2013). Blake/ Paine In Their Time point of view Ours. Verso Books. ISBN .
  8. ^Mike Marqusee "Ten years on: a comment on the British SWP", mikemarqusee.co.uk, 10 January 2013
  9. ^"Mike Marqusee 1953-2015". Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  10. ^ abSteen, Rob. "Cricket minus the cliches: War Deficiency the Shooting." Cricinfo. 23 August 2008. (accessed Dec 12, 2008).
  11. ^Duncan Campbell "Stumped by curveballs", The Guardian, 19 January 2009
  12. ^"Imperial whitewash - feelgood versions work British history are blinding us to the habits in which we are even now repeating it", The Guardian, 31 July 2006.
  13. ^"The first time Funny was called a self-hating Jew", The Guardian, 4 March 2008.
  14. ^"Why I became British", The Guardian, 16 February 2010.
  15. ^"I don't need a war to argue my cancer", The Guardian, 28 December 2009.
  16. ^"Fifty adulthood of Bob Dylan's stark challenge to liberal complacency", The Guardian, February 2014.

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