For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted
A Word on Words on Nashville’s public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most interesting and most important writers of our time. These in-depth exchanges revealed much about the writers who appeared on his show and gave a glimpse into their creative processes. Seigenthaler was a deeply engaged reader and a generous interviewer, a true craftsman. Frye Gaillard and Pat Toomay have collected and transcribed some of the iconic interactions from the show.
Featuring interviews with:
Arna Bontemps • Marshall Chapman • Pat Conroy • Rodney Crowell • John Egerton • Jesse Hill Ford • Charles Fountain • William Price Fox • Kinky Friedman • Frye Gaillard • Nikki Giovanni • Doris Kearns Goodwin • David Halberstam • Waylon Jennings • John Lewis • David Maraniss • William Marshall • Jon Meacham • Ann Patchett • Alice Randall • Dori Sanders • John Seigenthaler Sr. • Marty Stuart • Pat Toomay
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction: The Breadth, Depth, and Passion of John Seigenthaler , by Frye Gaillard
Part I: Civil Rights
Arna Bontemps,
Free at Last: The Life of Frederick Douglass and
Great Slave Narratives
John Egerton,
Speak Now against The Day
John Lewis,
Walking with The Wind
David Halberstam,
The Children
Frye Gaillard,
Cradle of Freedom
Part II: Literature
Jesse Hill Ford,
The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones
Pat Conroy,
The Death of Santini
Ann Patchett,
The Patron Saint of Liars
Dori Sanders,
Clover
Alice Randall,
The Wind Done Gone
Nikki Giovanni,
Chasing Utopia
Part III: Music
Marshall Chapman,
Goodbye Little Rock and Roller
Marty Stuart,
Country Music: The Masters
Rodney Crowell,
Chinaberry Sidewalks
Waylon Jennings,
Waylon: An Autobiography
Kinky Friedman,
The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover
Part IV: Sports
Charles Fountain,
Sportswriter: The Life and Times of Grantland Rice
William Marshall,
Baseball’s Pivotal Era, 1945–1951
William Price Fox,
Satchel Paige’s America
Pat Toomay,
On Any Given Sunday
Part V: The Presidency
Jon Meacham,
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Doris Kearns Goodwin,
Team of Rivals
David Maraniss,
Barack Obama: The Story
John Seigenthaler Sr.,
James K. Polk
Epilogue , by Andrew Maraniss
Books Featured in This Volume
Circa l’autore
Marshall Chapman moved to Nashville in 1967 to attend Vanderbilt University, and wrote her first song in 1973. Her songs have been recorded by Conway Twitty, Jimmy Buffett, and many others. She is a contributing editor for Garden & Gun magazine and the author of Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller, which was a finalist for the 2004 SEBA Book Award and Book Critics Circle Award.
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