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Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and Other Persons of Interest : Fifty Pieces from the Road /
Writing as a newspaper reporter for nearly forty years, Curtis Wilkie covered eight presidential campaigns, spent years in the Middle East, and traveled to a number of conflicts abroad. However, his memory keeps turning home and many of his most treasured stories transpire in the Deep South. He call...
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2014.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part III: Covering CarterCarter'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. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Gaza Homesteading a Tough SellPart 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. | |
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| 520 | |a Writing as a newspaper reporter for nearly forty years, Curtis Wilkie covered eight presidential campaigns, spent years in the Middle East, and traveled to a number of conflicts abroad. However, his memory keeps turning home and many of his most treasured stories transpire in the Deep South. He called his native Mississippi, ""the gift that keeps on giving."" For Wilkie, it represented a trove of rogues and racists, colorful personalities and outlandish politicians who managed to thrive among people otherwise kind and generous. Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and Other Persons of Inter. | ||
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