Writer Jack Newfield is dead at 66 [View All]

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Jack Newfield, a muckraking columnist at several New York newspapers and the author of 10 books on topics ranging from Robert F. Kennedy to boxing impresario Don King, has died. He was 66.

Newfield died late Monday night at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center of kidney cancer that had spread to his lungs, said Howard Rubenstein, a spokesman for the family.

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His later books included ''Only in America: The Life and Crimes of Don King,'' ''Somebody's Gotta Tell It: The Upbeat Memoir of a Working Class Journalist'' and ''The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth and the Mania,'' about former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Newfield also worked on several television documentaries as a writer and producer, and he published numerous articles for The Nation, Parade, New York magazine and other publications.