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Huey | Marshall Frady
To a number of discriminating souls in his day, Huey Pierce Long was an unspeakable vulgarity.
The Portable Canterbury
“Whatever else,” Marshall Frady writes about Billy Graham, “he has transmuted into a peculiar sort of megacelebrity, megastar of his age: his rangy wheat-haired form has been personally beheld, the reverberant bay of his voice immediately heard, by more people over the face of the earth than any other single human being in the history of the race.” Yes, yes.
AN AMERICAN POLITICAL FABLE
PROFILE of San Francisco's Mayor Willie Brown. Born an illegitimate black child in Mineola, Texas, Brown was brought up by his grandmother and sent to stay with his uncle in San Francisco as a teenager. He attended San Francisco State University, where he met his future wife, Blanche, and Hastings College of the Law. He ran a law practice whose clientele consisted mainly of prostitutes, but became active in the community.
How George Wallace Harnessed Hate
Long before Donald Trump trashed the usual rules of US politics, there was George Wallace. In his classic biography, Marshall Frady gave us an indelible portrait of a demagogue. At a press conference that evening in a crammed smokehazed motel room on the outskirts of Concord, he seemed—peering over a thicket of microphones that came up almost to his chin, perspiring and a little haggard in the harsh glare of television lights—an improbable apparition.
The Big Guy by Marshall Frady
Lyndon Johnson was indeed, as has become almost a commonplace by now, a being of Shakespearean dimensions—a hulking, bush-country colossus, gargantuan of ego and energy, of self-delusions and glooms and paranoias, crass cruelties and rampant vulgarities, but gargantuan also in his benevolent ambitions. All he wanted was to be the greatest president in the history of the Republic, by abolishing with his Great Society benefactions all poverty, hunger, and racial wrong from the land.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Marshall Frady, the reporter who became the unofficial chronicler of the civil rights movement, here re-creates the life and turbulent times of its inspirational leader. Deftly interweaving the story of King’s quest with a history of the African American struggle for equality, Frady offers fascinating insights into his subject’s magnetic character, with its mixture of piety and ambition.
George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics: Dan T. Carter: 9780807125977: Amazon.com: Books
This is an excellent study on the political career of George Wallace, the former Alabama Governor famed for his stand against integration in the early 1960's and his subsequent runs for the Presidency. Carter portrays Wallace as a complex individual, who seems to have been motivated from the start more by ambition than principle. The book gives an extremely well researched and readable account of Wallace's early life, his family, friendships and formative experiences.
The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson: Marshall Frady: 9780743291446: Amazon.com: Books
Although this book is 15 years old, Marshall Frady, writing with great brilliance and depth of insight into the American racial character, has perhaps penned one of the most important if not the best American biographies of the past two decades.
Barbara A. Reynolds: 9780911012804: Amazon.com: Books
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DEATH IN ARKANSAS
The New Yorker, February 22, 1993 P. 105 ANNALS OF LAW AND POLITICS about the death by lethal injection of Rickey Ray Rector, who killed a man in a dance hall--the policeman who was invited to the family home to arrest him--then effectively lobotomized himself with a gunshot wound to the temple.
The Big Guy
Lyndon Johnson was indeed, as has become almost a commonplace by now, a being of Shakespearean dimensions—a hulking, bush-country colossus, gargantuan of ego and energy, of self-delusions and glooms and paranoias, crass cruelties and rampant vulgarities, but gargantuan also in his benevolent ambitions. All he wanted was to be the greatest president in the history of the Republic, by abolishing with his Great Society benefactions all poverty, hunger, and racial wrong from the land.
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