Bylines
Writings from the American South, 1963-1997
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Book Details
About the Book
“Bylines,” the book, collects the best of Cumming's freelance writing over a 34-year period. Cumming published these articles and columns in national magazines, such as Esquire, and in local newspapers. A foreword is by his son Doug Cumming, Ph.D., a journalism professor at
About the Author
Joseph B. Cumming Jr., Newsweek's Southern bureau chief during the transforming years of the 1960s and 70s, saw history from a front row seat. He wrote under his byline in other publications about these changes, and about a new consciousness he experienced as a white son of the old South. Admired -- "beloved" is the word -- by fellow writers througout the South, Cumming writes with a deep feeling for history, the heart of a poet and a love of learning.