In this close, personal history, the result of eight years of intensive research, Reed finds Faubus to be an opaque man, “an insoluable mixture of cynicism and compassion, guile and grace, wickedness and goodness,” and, ultimately, “one of the last Americans to perceive politics as a grand game.”
Faubus
$29.95
The Life and Times of an American Prodigal
Roy Reed
978-1-55728-467-9 (paper)
July 1999
New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 1997
1998 Certificate of Commendation, American Association for State and Local History
