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The award-winning journalist recounts how he rose from poverty to fame, and discusses his role as one of the first Black reporters for a major newspaper, his ambassadorship to Finland, and his position in the Johnson cabinet
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One of the country's first highly visible black reporters, syndicated columnist Rowan pulls no punches in this powerful, feisty, often moving autobiography. From a poverty-stricken Depression childhood in Tennessee, he rose to become an influential journalist, and this memoir interweaves vivid eyewitness accounts of Martin Luther King, the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, Little Rock protests and other signposts of the civil rights movement. Rowan, who became a State Department spokesman in the Kennedy administration, offers a skeptical insider's view of JFK's "imperial presidency" as well as a withering portrait of Lyndon Johnson, in whose administration he also served. He blasts Reagan's policies ("cruelty covered up by glib cliches") and lashes the Bush presidency for its lack of commitment to education, housing and eradication of poverty. He calls for black-Jewish unity, strongly opposes legalization of drugs, and critiques Jesse Jackson and Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry. He also urges blacks to "deal with the problems of today." Photos.
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In this autobiographical work, the eminent black journalist who was also a public official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations provides a revealing account of his private and public life. He rose from a poverty-stricken childhood in Tennessee to become Director of the United States Information Agency under Lyndon Johnson, with stops along the way as an award-winning journalist, Assistant Secretary of State, and American Ambassador to Finland. Of special interest to students of recent American history are his telling examples of Johnson's contradictory personality and Rowan's own credo as an independent syndicated columnist. Although sometimes predictable and pedestrian, this generally well-written work is recommended for major public and academic libraries.
- Anthony O. Edmonds, Ball State Univ., Muncie, Ind.
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- Anthony O. Edmonds, Ball State Univ., Muncie, Ind.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherLittle Brown & Co
- Publication date1991
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- ISBN 13 9780316759779
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