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Ernie Dumas at The Library

August 3, 2019 @ 2:00 pm

The Faulkner County Library welcomes veteran journalist Ernie Dumas for an afternoon talk, book signing, and Q&A on Saturday, August 2, at 2:00 PM. His memoir, The Education of Ernie Dumastraces the political evolution of Arkansas following World War II, and explores the defeat of Governor Francis Cherry by Orval Faubus, the son of a hillbilly socialist at the end of the McCarthy ere, and leading up to Bill Clinton, Arkansas’s first president of the United States. The book presents some of the untold stories that reveal the struggles and tribulations of the state’s leaders—-Cherry, Faubus, Winthrop Rockefeller, Dale Bumpers, David Pryor, John McClellan, J. William Fulbright, Bill Clinton, Jim Guy Tucker, and others.


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Date:
August 3, 2019
Time:
2:00 pm