The Life and Times of Louis Lomax
The Art of Deliberate Disunity
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date of Publication: 2 April 2021
Number of Volumes: Cloth over boards
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781478010685 |
| ISBN10: | 1478010681 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 264 pages |
| Size: | 229x152 mm |
| Weight: | 499 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 16 illustrations |
| 400 |
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Short description:
Thomas Aiello traces the complicated and fascinating life of pioneering journalist, television host, bestselling author, and important yet overlooked civil rights figure Louis Lomax, who became one of the most influential voices of the civil rights movement despite his past as an ex-con, serial liar, and publicity-seeking provocateur.
Long description:
Syndicated television and radio host. Serial liar. Pioneering journalist. Convicted criminal. Close ally of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Publicity-seeking provocateur. Louis Lomax's life was a study in contradiction. In this biography, Thomas Aiello traces the complicated and fascinating arc of Lomax's life and career, showing how the contradictions, tumult, and inconsistencies that marked his life reflected those of 1960s America. Aiello takes readers from Lomax's childhood in the Deep South to his early confidence schemes to his emergence as one of the loudest and most influential voices of the civil rights movement. Regardless of what political position he happened to take at any given moment, Lomax preached “the art of deliberate disunity,” in which the path to democracy could only be achieved through a diversity of opinions. Engaging and broad in scope, The Life and Times of Louis Lomax is the definitive study of one of the civil rights era's most complicated, important, and overlooked figures.
“Thomas Aiello, in his freewheeling, unpretentious style, does justice to Louis Lomax’s inexhaustible supply of surprises. In the process, Aiello achieves a liveliness and immediacy that most historians only dream of. Aiello tirelessly tracks down facts you never heard of, leaving no room for fluff or speculation. The result is a great intellectual biography that brings to light the uncharted depths and breadths of Black America’s struggle against racism to light. Students will have a thrilling adventure story. Seasoned scholars will be shocked to learn how much they didn’t know. If they’re honest, they’ll also see that Lomax—once Black America’s most popular nonfiction writer, now unjustly forgotten—beat them to many insights and discoveries they thought were their own.”
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. From Privilege to Prison 7
2. The Hate That Hate Produced 24
3. The Reluctant African 40
4. The Negro Revolt 55
5. Ambitions 73
6. When the World Is Given 90
7. The Louis Lomax Show 111
8. Thailand 132
9. Branching Out 150
10. Conspiracies 167
Notes 179
Bibliography 221
Index 239
Introduction 1
1. From Privilege to Prison 7
2. The Hate That Hate Produced 24
3. The Reluctant African 40
4. The Negro Revolt 55
5. Ambitions 73
6. When the World Is Given 90
7. The Louis Lomax Show 111
8. Thailand 132
9. Branching Out 150
10. Conspiracies 167
Notes 179
Bibliography 221
Index 239
