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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 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.
- 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.
- KL; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.