Beware of Limbo Dancers
ISBN: 9781610755023
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Arkansas Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.; Journalists;

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.

Roy Earl Reed was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas on February 14, 1930. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from the University of Missouri. He worked for The Globe in Joplin, Missouri from 1954 to 1956, for The Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock, and for The New York Times from 1965 until 1978. He was a White House correspondent and covered the civil rights movement. After leaving the newspaper, he taught journalism at the University of Arkansas. He wrote several books including Looking for Hogeye, Faubus: The Life and Times of an American Prodigal, and Beware of Limbo Dancers: A Correspondent's Adventures with The New York Times. He died after a severe stroke on December 10, 2017 at the age of 87.

(Bowker Author Biography)


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