Short Works by Berton

All available shorter works by Berton other than the musical essays in the previous section. Includes some very early essays, as, for example, Art in a Classless Society, written sometime in the 1930s, in Box #6, Folder #1. Box #6, Folder #2 contains the manuscripts of the liner notes for over 20 different albums that Berton wrote, arranged alphabetically by artist. Box #6, Folder #3 and #4 contain record reviews by Berton, arranged alphabetically, by artist. Box #6, Folder #5 contains poetry and verse by Berton mostly in typewritten manuscript, though occasionally handwritten or with hand written revisions. Box #6, Folders #6 and #7 contain the manuscripts of short stories by Berton, dating from the 1930s. Of special note is the manuscript of Conversations on a Bridge, a fictionalization of Sonny Rollins wood shedding period. Published in Down Beat, this article was the first to reveal Rollin's whereabouts during his hiatus from public appearances in the late 1950s.

Box #7, Folders #2 and #3 contain manuscripts of political essays by Berton, written mostly the 1980s a period during which Berton was becoming increasingly interested in matters of public policy, or at least when he was making a somewhat successful effort to have his views on these matters published in the mainstream press. Where Angels Fear in Box #7 Folder #3 is Berton's impassioned defense of the Second Amendment, somewhat controversial given his liberal views on most other issues (though he also favored capitol punishment and an aggressive posture towards terrorism which prefigures the Patriot Act, both of which views are articulated in articles in these folders). Box #7, Folder #4 contains material that he developed for the 1957 Wagner for Mayor campaign, for which he was a major publicist. Box #7 Folders #5 through #16 contains advertising copy, technical manuals and other business writing by Berton dating from the 1950s through the 1980s, which was apparently his major source of income in that period.