For the Love of Alabama Journalism by Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson |
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| Editor:
| Hodges, Sam |
| Author:
| Casey, Ron
Thomson, Bailey |
| Foreword by:
| Flynt, Wayne |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8173-5666-8 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More Description 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.