Beware of Limbo Dancers
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Beware of Limbo Dancers

A Correspondent’s Adventures with the New York Times

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eBook - ePub

Beware of Limbo Dancers

A Correspondent’s Adventures with the New York Times

About this book

This witty, wide-ranging memoir from Roy Reed--a native Arkansan who became a reporter for the New York Times--begins with tales of the writer's formative years growing up in Arkansas and the start of his career at the legendary Arkansas Gazette. Reed joined the New York Times in 1965 and was quickly thrust into the chaos of the Selma, Alabama, protest movement and the historical interracial march to Montgomery. His story then moves from days of racial violence to the political combat of Washington. Reed covered the Johnson White House and the early days of the Nixon administration as it wrestled with the competing demands of black voters and southern resistance to a new world. The memoir concludes with engaging postings from New Orleans and London and other travels of a reporter always on the lookout for new people, old ways, good company, and fresh outrages.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Who, What, Where, When, Why
  7. CHAPTER 1: Learning to Fear Geese and Believe in Bears
  8. CHAPTER 2: Some People Who Improved Me
  9. CHAPTER 3: Gazette Days
  10. CHAPTER 4: History Lesson
  11. CHAPTER 5: Moving South
  12. CHAPTER 6: A Stranger in New York
  13. CHAPTER 7: Marching to Montgomery
  14. CHAPTER 8: Getting Away with Murder
  15. CHAPTER 9: Learning to Speak Times Talk
  16. CHAPTER 10: The Murky Pearl and Other Graveyards
  17. CHAPTER 11: A Funeral Oration
  18. CHAPTER 12: Bigots I Have Known
  19. CHAPTER 13: Resisting the Resisters
  20. CHAPTER 14: You Want Your Power Black or with Cream?
  21. CHAPTER 15: Blurred Colors
  22. CHAPTER 16: Outrage by the Book
  23. CHAPTER 17: The Story Changes
  24. CHAPTER 18: Reconstruction, Round Two
  25. CHAPTER 19: Walking across Hell
  26. CHAPTER 20: Winding Down: Beale to Bourbon
  27. CHAPTER 21: The White House
  28. CHAPTER 22: The Viet Cong Has It In for Me
  29. CHAPTER 23: The Year I Lived with Hubert Humphrey
  30. CHAPTER 24: George Wallace Again
  31. CHAPTER 25: Southern Strategy Redux
  32. CHAPTER 26: Rescued in New Orleans
  33. CHAPTER 27: Dixie Takes Washington without Firing a Shot
  34. CHAPTER 28: London
  35. CHAPTER 29: Is There Life after the New York Times?
  36. About the Author