Thomas Aiello

Gebundenes Buch

The Life and Times of Louis Lomax

The Art of Deliberate Disunity

Beschreibung

Syndicated television and radio host. Serial liar. Pioneering journalist. Convicted criminal. Close ally of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Publicity-seeking provocateur. Louis Lomax's life was a study in contradiction. In this biography, Thomas Aiello traces the complicated and fascinating arc of Lomax's life and career, showing how the contradictions, tumult, and inconsistencies that marked his life reflected those of 1960s America. Aiello takes readers from Lomax's childhood in the Deep South to his early confidence schemes to his emergence as one of the loudest and most influential voices of the civil rights movement. Regardless of what political position he happened to take at any given moment, Lomax preached "the art of deliberate disunity," in which the path to democracy could only be achieved through a diversity of opinions. Engaging and broad in scope, The Life and Times of Louis Lomax is the definitive study of one of the civil rights era's most complicated, important, and overlooked figures.

Autor

Thomas Aiello is associate professor of history and African American studies at Valdosta State University in Georgia. He is the author of The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate In the Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement (Georgia, 2018), among many others. His book Jim Crow's Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts In Louisiana (LSU, 2015) helped spark a movement that constitutionally overturned the state's nonunanimous jury law. A second edition appeared in 2019. He writes lots of books. You can find out more about them at www.thomasaiellobooks.com, at facebook.com/thomas aiellobooks, or on Twitter @thomasaiello.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781478010685
• ISBN-10: 1478010681
• Artikelnr.: 59414694