Marshall Frady (1940–2004)
Auteur de Martin Luther King, Jr.
A propos de l'auteur
Marshall Frady, a critically acclaimed biographer and veteran journalist, has written for numerous publications, including Newsweek, The New Yorker, and Harper's. He has been a correspondent for Nightline and a host, chief writer, and correspondent for ABC News, where his pieces won many awards. He afficher plus lives in Los Angeles, California afficher moins
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Œuvres de Marshall Frady
Oeuvres associées
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Contributeur — 217 exemplaires
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Contributeur — 92 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Frady, Marshall Bolton
- Date de naissance
- 1940-01-11
- Date de décès
- 2004-03-09
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Augusta, Georgia, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Greenville, South Carolina, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Études
- Furman University
- Professions
- journalist
biographer
non-fiction author - Prix et distinctions
- Emmy (1982)
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 496
- Popularité
- #49,831
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 26
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 1
Frady adds little that is new to the story of King's life, yet his analysis is informed by his personal experiences covering King as a young reporter in the 1960s. His account of the St. Augustine protests is a particular highlight of his book for that reason, as he recounts the events he covered there with his firsthand observations of the events he chronicles. These he uses to inform his portrait of a fatalistic, sometimes depressed figure, one who felt fully the burden of expectations and embarked upon his many campaigns with the expectation that he would die as a result. That loss stalks its pages may reflect an excessive degree of hindsight on Frady's part, but it helps to underscore the risks King took throughout his life and the loss we all suffered with his assassination barely a dozen years after he first emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement. For anyone seeking an accessible introduction to that life and an overview of what he achieved in it, Frady's book is a good place to start.… (plus d'informations)