A native South Carolinian, Marshall Frady was a journalist for over twenty-five years, writing principally on political figures and racial and social tensions in the American culture, first as a correspondent for
Newsweek, then for
Life,
Harper's,
Esquire,
The New York Review of Books,
The Sunday Times of London,
Atlantic Monthly, and
The New Yorker. In the 1980s, Frady was chief writer and host of ABC News Documentary Series "Closeup," for which he won two Emmy's, the Cine Golden Eagle, and the duPont-Columbia Award, and a correspondent for "Nightline." In the 90's, he co-wrote the screenplay for the TNT miniseries "George Wallace," directed by John Frankenheimer, which won three CableACE awards, a Golden Globe for best miniseries, the Humanitas Award for writing, three Emmy awards and the Peabody Award. He also wrote and narrated the PBS "Frontline" Documentary, "The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson." He was the author of seven books:
Wallace (1968),
Across a Darkling Plain: An American's Passage Through the Middle East (1971),
Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness (1979),
Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey (1980), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize,
Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson (1996), and
Martin Luther King Jr. (2002), a volume in the Penguin Lives series. He died on March 9, 2004.
This book title, Jesse (The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson), ISBN: 9780743291446, by Marshall Frady, published by Simon & Schuster (November 28, 2006) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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