Strom - by Jack Bass & Marilyn W Thompson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Bass and Thompson deliver a remarkable look at the complicated personal and political life of the legendary conservative senator from South Carolina.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In <i>Strom</i>, Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson deliver a remarkable look at the life of a remarkable -- and complicated -- politician. First elected to public office in 1929, Strom Thurmond was a pivotal figure in the nation's politics for more than seven decades particularly when it came to issues of race: the Dixiecrat presidential candidate in 1948, originator of the 1956 Southern Manifesto against the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, holder of the record for a Senate filibuster for his opposition to the 1957 Civil Rights Bill. Yet as a young man Thurmond had secretly fathered a daughter with the family's black maid, and quietly supported her through college and beyond. <p/> An intense public examination of Thurmond's legacy began when he left the Senate at age 100, continued when he passed away soon after and only grew when Essie Mae Washington-Williams announced in December 2003 that she was the senator's long-rumored black daughter. <p/> Bass and Thompson know Strom better than anyone. They both covered him for years and broke the big stories. In <i>Strom</i>, they tell us a great deal about power and politics in our nation and race's twisted roots in the 20th century South.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jack Bass</b> teaches at the College of Charleston. He has written for the <i>New York Times</i>, the <i>Washington Post</i>, and the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, and is the author or co-author of six nonfiction books, including <i>The Transformation of Southern Politics, Taming the Storm</i>, winner of the 1994 Robert Kennedy Book Award, and the 1998 biography, <i>Ol' Strom</i>, on which he collaborated with Marilyn Walser Thompson. <p/><b>Marilyn Walser Thompson</b> was an award-winning reporter in South Carolina, where she covered Thurmond in the late 1970s. She later served as assistant managing editor for investigations at the <i>Washington Post</i> and in 2004 became vice president and editor of Kentucky's <i>Lexington Herald-Leader</i>. Thompson is the author or co-author of three previous nonfiction books.
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