Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson

A native South Carolinian Marshall Frady was a journalist for over twenty-five years writing principally on political figures and racial and social tensions in the American culture first as a correspondent for Newsweek then for Life Harpers Esquire The New York Review of Books The Sunday Times of London Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker. In the 1980s Frady was chief writer and host of ABC News Documentary Series Closeup for which he won two Emmys the Cine Golden Eagle and the duPont-Columbia Award and a correspondent for Nightline. In the 90s he co-wrote the screenplay for the TNT miniseries George Wallace directed by John Frankenheimer which won three CableACE awards a Golden Globe for best miniseries the Humanitas Award for writing three Emmy awards and the Peabody Award. He also wrote and narrated the PBS Frontline Documentary The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson. He was the author of seven books: Wallace (1968) Across a Darkling Plain: An Americans Passage Through the Middle East (1971) Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness (1979) Southerners: A Journalists Odyssey (1980) which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson (1996) and Martin Luther King Jr. (2002) a volume in the Penguin Lives series. He died on March 9 2004.