Beware of limbo dancers : a correspondent's adventures with the New York Times / Roy Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Roy, 1930-2017.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalists--United States--Biography.

Journalists.

Reed, Roy, 1930-2017.

Reed, Roy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages : illustrations)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This witty, wide-ranging memoir from Roy Reed--a native Arkansan who became a reporter for the New York Times--begins with tales of the writer's formative years growing up in Arkansas and the start of his career at the legendary Arkansas Gazette. Reed joined the New York Times in 1965 and was quickly thrust into the chaos of the Selma, Alabama, protest movement and the historical interracial march to Montgomery. His story then moves from days of racial violence to the political combat of Washington. Reed covered the Johnson White House and the early days of the Nixon administration as it wrestled with the competing demands of black voters and southern resistance to a new world. The memoir concludes with engaging postings from New Orleans and London and other travels of a reporter always on the lookout for new people, old ways, good company, and fresh outrages"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Who, What, Where, When, Why

CHAPTER 1: Learning to Fear Geese and Believe in Bears

CHAPTER 2: Some People Who Improved Me

CHAPTER 3: Gazette Days

CHAPTER 4: History Lesson

CHAPTER 5: Moving South

CHAPTER 6: A Stranger in New York

CHAPTER 7: Marching to Montgomery

CHAPTER 8: Getting Away with Murder

CHAPTER 9: Learning to Speak Times Talk

CHAPTER 10: The Murky Pearl and Other Graveyards

CHAPTER 11: A Funeral Oration

CHAPTER 12: Bigots I Have Known

CHAPTER 13: Resisting the Resisters

CHAPTER 14: You Want Your Power Black or with Cream?

CHAPTER 15: Blurred Colors

CHAPTER 16: Outrage by the Book

CHAPTER 17: The Story Changes

CHAPTER 18: Reconstruction, Round Two

CHAPTER 19: Walking across Hell

CHAPTER 20: Winding Down: Beale to Bourbon

CHAPTER 21: The White House

CHAPTER 22: The Viet Cong Has It In for Me

CHAPTER 23: The Year I Lived with Hubert Humphrey

CHAPTER 24: George Wallace Again

CHAPTER 25: Southern Strategy Redux

CHAPTER 26: Rescued in New Orleans

CHAPTER 27: Dixie Takes Washington without Firing a Shot

CHAPTER 28: London

CHAPTER 29: Is There Life after the New York Times?

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781610755023

1610755022

9781299146235

1299146236

OCLC:

828617758