Scott Saul

Scott Saul, an associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t: Jazz and the Making of the Sixtiesand, most recently, Becoming Richard Pryor(HarperCollins), a biography of the performer. For Scott Saul’s multimedia archive of Richard Pryor’s life, go to www.becomingrichardpryor.com.

Plugged Into the Socket of Life

Plugged Into the Socket of Life Plugged Into the Socket of Life

Behind Richard Pryor’s jokes and barbs was a man yearning to be free.

Nov 25, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul

A Body on the Gears A Body on the Gears

At Berkeley in 1964, Mario Savio embodied the need to speak and act in the face of doubt.

Mar 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul

Suspended Sentences Suspended Sentences

Eliot Weinberger's enigmatic essays save him from becoming a prisoner of his polemical style.

Sep 30, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul

Off Camera: Civil Rights in the North Off Camera: Civil Rights in the North

Sweet Land of Liberty is a bold, if decidedly underdramatic, rewriting of civil rights history.

Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul

Sweet Martin’s Badass Song Sweet Martin’s Badass Song

Several new books on Martin Luther King takes a closer look at the rhetoric and economic politics of the civil rights icon.

May 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul

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