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Ayers, H. Brandt

 
9781588382771: In Love With Defeat: The Making of a Southern Liberal
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ISBN 10 : 158838277X ISBN 13 : 9781588382771
Editeur : NewSouth, Incorporated, 2013

Synopsis

Journalist and publisher Brandt Ayers's journey takes him from the segregated Old South to covering the central scenes of the civil rights struggle, and finally to editorship of his family’s hometown newspaper, The Anniston Star. The journey was one of controversy, danger, a racist nightrider murder, taut moments when the community teetered on the edge of mob violence that ended well because of courageous civic leadership and wise hearts of black and white leaders. The narrative has outsized figures from U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy to George Wallace and includes probing insights into the Alabama governor as he evolved over time. High points of the story involve the birth of a New South movement, the election of a Southern President, and the strange undoing of his presidency. An afterword, made imperative by the cultural and political exclamation point of a black President, bridges the years from the disappearance of the New South in the 1980s to Barack Obama’s first term.

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À propos de l'auteur

From the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first, the Ayers name has been synonymous with progressive journalism. H. Brandt Ayers, the current publisher of the Anniston Star, graduated from the University of Alabama and later studied at Harvard and Columbia. He served as Washington correspondent for the (Raleigh) News and Observer and covered Robert Kennedy’s Justice Department for a news bureau serving newspapers in the South and Southwest. He later led the Star during the turbulent civil rights era. He was one of the founders and president of an institutional expression of the New South movement, the L. Q. C. Lamar Society.

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Éditeur
NewSouth, Incorporated
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
158838277X
ISBN 13 
9781588382771
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
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Personne responsable
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