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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 4022. Faubus: The Life and Times of an American Prodigal, by Roy Reed (read 13 May 2005) This is a most interesting and quite well-done biography of Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1965. His claim to notoriety is his dealing with the Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis of September 1957--an account of which is well told in Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High, by Melba Pattillo Beals, which I read with total absorption on 22 Dec 1994. This biography of Faubus is generally unfavoring to him, though the author, a reporter for the Arkansas Gazette during the pertinent time, recognizes that Faubus' political career would have ended if he had done what was right in the crisis. Faubus' life fell apart in his declining years--he died Dec 14, 1994. This is, except for a few pages devoted to Arkansas legislative matters, a consistently interesting book. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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 No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)976.7History and Geography North America South Central U.S. ArkansasLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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