About the Author

Angela Michelli Fleming, an award-winning history student at LSU, works as a research assistant in the Manship School of Mass Communication.

John Maxwell Hamilton, a longtime public radio commentator, has reported in the United States and abroad for ABC Radio, the Christian Science Monitor, and others. He is dean and LSU Foundation Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University and the author or coauthor of five books.