The Changing South of Gene Patterson - (Southern Dissent) by Roy Peter Clark & Raymond Arsenault (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><em>The Changing South of Gene Patterson</em> celebrates the work of one of America's most influential journalists who wrote in a time and place of dramatic social and political upheaval. The editor of the <em>Atlanta Constitution</em> from 1960 through 1968, Patterson wrote directly to his fellow white southerners every day, working to persuade them to change their ways. His words were so inspirational that he was asked by Walter Cronkite to read his most famous column, about the Birmingham church bombing, live on the <em>CBS Evening News</em>.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Not often can we see history being written. Seldom can we go back in time with one who was there. Rarely can we watch events push the past into the future. But through Gene Patterson's newspaper columns . . . we can witness how the South of yesterday became the South of today."--<i><b>St. Petersburg Times</i></b> "What emerges from these individual pieces is not the career history of one newspaperman, but a beautifully nuanced portrait of a community, a region, and a people at an undeniable turning point."--<i><b>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i></b> "[These] more than 3,000 columns represent one of the most impressive bodies of work in the journalism of the 20th century."--<i><b>National Press Club</i></b> "An admirable compilation of primary sources for understanding a Southern mind amidst the civil rights movement. . . . As historians work to understand the Southern white mind amidst the changes of the second Reconstruction, the strengths, inconsistencies, and equivocations of Gene Patterson will be a useful guide."--<b>H-Florida</b> "A collection of columns written by one of the most gifted writers of our time. . . . [S]uperb examples and rich reading for anyone interested not only in history, but also in excellent journalism that helped to tell the stories of race in America in the mid-20th century."--<i><b>Nieman Reports</i></b> "A study of a moderate southern journalist like Gene Patterson reveals a much more contemplative and socially conscious South: a South doing its best to come to grips with the demands of equality and morality."--<i><b>Southern Historian</i></b><br>
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