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

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