For the Love of Alabama is a compilation of the most poignant and trenchant writing editorials, reportage, and columns by two of Alabama s most committed and reform-minded journalists. Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson both died young: Casey at forty-eight and Thomson at fifty-four. Nevertheless, through their work at the Birmingham News and the Mobile Press-Register, respectively, they labored tirelessly to illuminate and confront the state s chronic and interrelated problems of race, government, education, and poverty.Both journalists attended The University of...