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Assassins, eccentrics, politicians, and other persons of interest : fifty pieces from the road / Curtis Wilkie.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wilkie, Curtis, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Journalists--United States--Biography.
Journalists.
Wilkie, Curtis.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (375 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
Summary:
A compilation from the incomparable career of one of the original "Boys on the Bus".
Contents:
Cover
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Redemption
"God Says Kill Them"
30 Years Later, "Justice Has Been Done"
"Your Day of Judgment Soon Will Be Nigh"
"An Evil Genius" Is Convicted
"A Stigma on State Government"
The State That Couldn't Spy Right
Mississippi-Now. And Then
Part II: Out of the Delta
In the Heat of Freedom Summer
Robert Kennedy Meets Hunger
Peppery Politics at the Fair
The Last Days of Martin Luther King
Not the King in Mississippi
Rallying the Poor in the Delta
Money Talks
Washington's D-Day Nears
Gadfly Payoff
Part III: Covering Carter
Carter's Problems Back Home
Carter's Black Neighbor Displaced
The Next President Returns in Tears
Mayor Billy Carter?
For Brother Billy, the Tab Comes Due
"Standard Idiot Behavior"
The Democrats' Odd Couple
Plains Knew When Carter Wept
The Other Version of Carter's Memoirs
Part IV: Covering Clinton
The Making of the Candidate
33 Days That Defined a Candidate
Tracing a Web of Accusations in Little Rock
Part V: Middle East Interlude
A Withered Wasteland
The Last Vestiges of Civilization
Land Without a Country
In Bethlehem, a Bleak Christmas
Gaza Homesteading a Tough Sell
Part VI: Writers
Israel's Faulkner
The Book of Lamentations
Wrestling with Israel's Paradox
The Doctor Is In
Getting to the Heart of Robert Stone
Part VII: Characters
"Mahatma Gandhi Is Not the Mayor's Style"
Secret History
The Son King
Remembering Abu Jihad
Outlaw Minister
Silber's Tortured Odyssey
Part VIII: Southern Gothic
Holier Than Thou
Cultures Clash in Jones County
The Night I Met Elvis
Rowdy Lunch a New Orleans Tradition
Sound and Fury over Elvis
"Slave Labor" in Louisiana
Bohemia's Last Frontier
Index
A
B.
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z.
Notes:
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
1-62674-069-0
OCLC:
880672262

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