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Title: Beware of Limbo Dancers

Subtitle: A Correspondent's Adventures with the New York Times

Author: Roy Reed

Narrator: Marlin May

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-16

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

This witty, wide-ranging memoir from Roy Reed - a native Arkansan who became a reporter for the New York Times - begins with tales of the writer's formative years growing up in Arkansas and the start of his career at the legendary Arkansas Gazette.

Reed joined the New York Times in 1965 and was quickly thrust into the chaos of the Selma, Alabama protest movement and the historical interracial march to Montgomery. His story then moves from days of racial violence to the political combat of Washington. Reed covered the Johnson White House and the early days of the Nixon administration as it wrestled with the competing demands of black voters and southern resistance to a new world. The memoir concludes with engaging postings from New Orleans and London and other travels of a reporter always on the lookout for new people, old ways, good company, and fresh outrages.

Members Reviews:

Great up-close and personal insights about the civil rights movement

Very interesting and informative book. Great up-close and personal insights about the civil rights movement. Roy's writing style gives the feeling of having a conversation with him, not just reading the written word.

Read Reed

A humble memoir told by a true newsman. Roy Reed is a remarkable human being and a gifted storyteller. If you have any interest in the civil rights movement during the 60s then read this book!

A life of journalism

This book is so compelling, I made myself read only one chapter a night so it would last longer. Roy Reed's insights into the difficult times he covered so well are unique. I'm recommending it to all my friends.

Beware of Limbo Dancers: A Correspondent's Adventures with the New York Times

I was too young or uninterested or ignorant to have known Roy Reed when I ventured south to join the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march in 1965. He covered the march (and the rest of the civil rights movement) as a reporter for The New York Times who was raised in the South and "spoke southern"; I was a kid from the North who had decent instincts but little insight into the ways of the South. He begins his latest book saying his "line is storytelling, and I have one more to tell before the days outnumber me and put me out of business." So read this book to learn, as I did too late, and to witness his gift for "storytelling" at its best -- simply, powerfully and beautifully told.

Loved this book!

I'd love to sit across from Roy Reed and buy him a beer. This book is the next best thing. A visit with an intelligent, extremely well-informed man, with the talent and power to write with the best of them. The civil rights movement came alive all over again for me in these pages. I'm recommending this book to all my friends.