About
Career journalist and author. Worked for UPI, The Miami Herald and The Washington Post as a foreign correspondent and national reporter. Freelancer and book author since 2006. Books: Kings of Cocaine (with Jeff Leen), Simon and Schuster, 1989; Freedom's Cap, Hill and Wang, 2012;
Swift Boats at War in Vietnam (lead editor and contributor), Stackpole, 2015; Grant's Enforcer: Amos T. Akerman and the Ku Klux Klan (working), University of Georgia Press, 2024.
Featured Work
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Profiles the career of U.S. Attorney General Amos T. Akerman and his successful efforts to destroy the first iteration of the Ku Klux Klan in 1871, using York County, South Carolina to demonstrate the power of the Fourteenth Amendment to defend civil rights. Written as an ongoing news story by drawing almost exclusively on primary sources: witness testimony by the victims and members of the Ku Klux Klan; contemporary news accounts from around the country; congressional debate; and archived government documents.
