Beware of Limbo Dancers : A Correspondent's Adventures with the New York Times /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reed, Roy, 1930-2017
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Reed, Roy, > 1930-2017
Reed, Roy, > 1930-2017.
Journalists.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Journalistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Learning to Fear Geese and Believe in Bears
  • 2. Some People Who Improved Me
  • 3. Gazette Days
  • 4. History Lesson
  • 5. Moving South
  • 6. Stranger in New York
  • 7. Marching to Montgomery
  • 8. Getting Away with Murder
  • 9. Learning to Speak Times Talk
  • 10. Murky Pearl and Other Graveyards
  • 11. Funeral Oration
  • 12. Bigots I Have Known
  • 13. Resisting the Resisters
  • 14. You Want Your Power Black or with Cream?
  • 15. Blurred Colors
  • 16. Outrage by the Book
  • 17. Story Changes
  • 18. Reconstruction, Round Two
  • 19. Walking across Hell
  • 20. Winding Down: Beale to Bourbon
  • 21. White House
  • 22. Viet Cong Has It In for Me
  • 23. Year I Lived with Hubert Humphrey
  • 24. George Wallace Again
  • 25. Southern Strategy Redux
  • 26. Rescued in New Orleans
  • 27. Dixie Takes Washington without Firing a Shot
  • 28. London
  • 29. Is There Life after the New York Times?

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