In the always compelling yet simple style that made Roy Reed one of the country's foremost journalists, he shows us--as we share with him delightful moments and rich insights on the way to Hogeye, Arkansas--Southerners still different for being Southerners, and country Southerners who are even more so. This book is a special admission into those hills, to Vacation Bible School, tent meetings, sale barns, back roads and pool halls, to dog days--to the special place that Reed calls home.
In the always compelling yet simple style that made Roy Reed one of the country's foremost journalists, he shows us--as we share with him delightful m...
In this close, personal history, the result of eight years of intensive research, Reed finds Faubus to be an opaque man, "an insoluable mixture of cynicism and compassion, guile and grace, wickedness and goodness," and, ultimately, "one of the last Americans to perceive politics as a grand game."
New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 1997 1998 Certificate of Commendation, American Association for State and Local History
In this close, personal history, the result of eight years of intensive research, Reed finds Faubus to be an opaque man, "an insoluable mixture of cyn...
This title provides one of the great stories of twentieth-century journalism. With a legendary beginning as a printing press floated up the Arkansas River in 1819, the "Arkansas Gazette" is inextricably linked with the state's history, reporting on every major Arkansas event until the paper's demise in 1991 after a long, bitter, and very public newspaper war. "Looking Back at the Arkansas Gazette", knowledgeably and intimately edited by longtime Gazette reporter Roy Reed, comprises interviews from over a hundred former Gazette staffers recalling the stories they reported on and the people...
This title provides one of the great stories of twentieth-century journalism. With a legendary beginning as a printing press floated up the Arkansas R...
From Native Americans, explorers, and early settlers to entertainers, business people, politicians, lawyers, artists, and many others, the well-known and not-so-well-known Arkansans featured in Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics have fascinating stories. To name a few, there s the Hanging Judge, Isaac C. Parker of Fort Smith, and Hattie Caraway, the first elected female U.S. senator. Isaac T. Gillam, a slave who became a prominent politician in postCivil War Little Rock, is included, as is Norman McLeod, an eccentric Hot Springs photographer and owner of the city s first large tourist...
From Native Americans, explorers, and early settlers to entertainers, business people, politicians, lawyers, artists, and many others, the well-known ...
