Presenting Adult Literacy Advocates' 16th Annual Author Event
An Afternoon with the Author
Book Talk, Reception and Book Signing
Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 2:00 p.m.
Featuring Robert Mann
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Author of Backrooms and Bayous: My Life in Louisiana Politcs
Barnes & Noble at LSU – 2nd Floor Meeting Room 2 Union Square, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (Located at the corner of Highland Road and Veterans Drive, across from the Faculty Club Building) *Parking available in Union Square parking garage – entrance on East Campus Drive (no fee on weekends) |
Robert Mann holds the Manship Chair in Journalism at Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication. A former political writer for several Louisiana daily newspapers, he served as a senior aide to US Senators Russell Long and John Breaux as well as Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco. He worked on numerous statewide political campaigns from 1990 through 2003. From 2013 to 2018, he wrote a weekly politics column for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Mann is the author of critically acclaimed books about the American civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the 1964 presidential election, American wartime dissent, and President Ronald Reagan. He and his wife, Cindy, live in Baton Rouge.
