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Assassins, eccentrics, politicians, and other persons of interest
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A compilation from the incomparable career of one of the original "Boys on the Bus".
| כותר |
Assassins, eccentrics, politicians, and other persons of interest : fifty pieces from the road / Curtis Wilkie. |
|---|---|
| מהדורה |
1st ed. |
| מוציא לאור |
Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi |
| שנה |
2014 |
| הערות |
Includes index. |
| הערת תוכן ותקציר |
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. |
| היקף החומר |
1 online resource (375 p.) |
| שפה |
אנגלית |
| שנת זכויות יוצרים |
©2014 |
| מספר מערכת |
997012196658005171 |
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