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- Beware of Limbo Dancers: A Correspondent’s Adventures with the New York Times
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- 2012
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
summary
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 was quickly thrust into the chaos of the Selma, Alabama, protest movement and the historical interracial march to Montgomery. His story then moves from days of racial violence to the political combat of Washington. Reed covered the Johnson White House and the early days of the Nixon administration as it wrestled with the competing demands of black voters and southern resistance to a new world. The memoir concludes with engaging postings from New Orleans and London and other travels of a reporter always on the lookout for new people, old ways, good company, and fresh outrages.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Who, What, Where, When, Why
- pp. xi-xv
- 2. Some People Who Improved Me
- pp. 11-20
- 3. Gazette Days
- pp. 21-25
- 4. History Lesson
- pp. 27-32
- 5. Moving South
- pp. 33-35
- 6. A Stranger in New York
- pp. 37-46
- 7. Marching to Montgomery
- pp. 47-59
- 8. Getting Away with Murder
- pp. 61-75
- 9. Learning to Speak Times Talk
- pp. 77-80
- 11. A Funeral Oration
- pp. 89-91
- 12. Bigots I Have Known
- pp. 93-106
- 13. Resisting the Resisters
- pp. 107-113
- 14. You Want Your Power Black or with Cream?
- pp. 115-117
- 15. Blurred Colors
- pp. 119-124
- 16. Outrage by the Book
- pp. 125-129
- 17. The Story Changes
- pp. 131-136
- 18. Reconstruction, Round Two
- pp. 137-148
- 19. Walking across Hell
- pp. 149-158
- 20. Winding Down: Beale to Bourbon
- pp. 159-162
- 21. The White House
- pp. 163-168
- 22. The Viet Cong Has It In for Me
- pp. 169-182
- 23. The Year I Lived with Hubert Humphrey
- pp. 183-187
- 24. George Wallace Again
- pp. 189-195
- 25. Southern Strategy Redux
- pp. 197-203
- 26. Rescued in New Orleans
- pp. 205-228
- 28. London
- pp. 233-243
- 29. Is There Life after the New York Times?
- pp. 245-255
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610755023
Related ISBN(s)
9781557289889
MARC Record
OCLC
828617758
Pages
261
Launched on MUSE
2012-10-01
Language
English
Open Access
No