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Ezra recommended the anthology, praising Frady's vivid midcentury reporting on civilrights era figures and noting the prose's compelling, almost angry rhythm.
So the first book I recommend is called Southerners by Marshall Frady. It's an anthology, actually, of a lot of the profiles and general essays that Marshall Frady, who was a reporter for Newsweek and...
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Ezra recommended the anthology, praising Frady's vivid midcentury reporting on civilrights era figures and noting the prose's compelling, almost angry rhythm.
So the first book I recommend is called Southerners by Marshall Frady. It's an anthology, actually, of a lot of the profiles and general essays that Marshall Frady, who was a reporter for Newsweek and Harper's, New York Review of Books, several places in the mid-century during the civil rights era. He is the kind of writer who you read him and you almost become angry because you know you will never be that good at a Senate's level. His sentences, they almost dance off the page.