A word on words : the best of John Seigenthaler's interviews / edited by Pat Toomay and Frye Gaillard.
"For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted "A Word on Words," on local public television station, WNPT. He interviewed some of the most interesting and most important writers of our time. Frye Gaillard and Pat Toomay have collected and transcribed some of the iconoclastic interactions on the...
| Uniform Title: | Interviews.
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| Language: | English |
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Nashville, Tennessee :
Vanderbilt University Press,
[2023]
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 332 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Arna Bontemps: Frederick Douglas. Great Slave Narratives
- John Egerton: Speak Now Against the Day
- John Lewis: Walking Against the Wind
- David Halberstam: The Children
- Frye Gaillard: Cradle of Freedom
- Jesse Hill Ford: The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones
- Pat Conroy: The Death of Santini
- Ann Patchett: The Patron Saint of Liars
- Dori Sanders: Clover
- Alice Randall: Wind Done Gone
- Nikki Giovanni: Chasing Utopia
- Marshall Chapman: Goodbye Little Rock n' Roller
- Marty Stuart: Country Music: The Masters
- Rodney Crowell: Chinaberry Sidewalks
- Waylon Jennings: Waylon: An Autobiography
- Kinky Friedman: Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover
- Charles Fountain: The Life and Times of Grantland Rice
- William Marshall: Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951
- William Price Fox: Satchel Paige's America
- Pat Toomay: On Any Given Sunday
- Jon Meacham: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
- Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys
- David Maraniss: Barack Obama: The Story
- John Seigenthaler Sr. interviewed by son John Michael Seigenthaler: James K. Polk.