Robert Mann to Speak to Cenla Authors’ Club Meeting Thursday in Alexandria

Notice of CENLA Author Club Meeting by Michael Wynne:
One of the most widely respected and important speakers that we have ever had at our meetings is speaking this coming Thursday night at 6 p. m. at the Westside Regional Library branch in Alexandria- ROBERT “BOB” MANN. Please note his photo with this article, and his bio below.

I have a wide array of nice books that have been donated so everyone signing up for a door prize on Thursday night will receive a good book. (Not a bad deal for totally free admission!)

Invite a friend or a love one and come a hear a great speaker — speaking on history, writing books and about a few surprises. See you Thursday night!

Michael

Robert Mann
Robert Mann holds the Manship Chair at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. He is the author of critically acclaimed political histories of the U.S. civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, American wartime dissent, the 1964 presidential election, and Ronald Reagan’s political evolution in the 1950s and 1960s. His most recent book Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU, published by LSU Press.

Mann’s essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Politico, Salon, Vox and Smithsonian magazine. Mann teaches courses in political communication at LSU. From 2013 to 2018, he wrote a weekly political column in the New Orleans Times-Picayune. In the early 1980s, he covered Louisiana politics as a reporter for the Shreveport Journal and the Monroe News-Star.

Before joining the LSU faculty in 2006, Mann spent more than 20 years in the political arena, working for three United States senators and a Louisiana governor. He was communications director to Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, after serving 19 years as a U.S. Senate aide. He was state director to U.S. Senator John Breaux of Louisiana, and also served as Breaux’s press secretary. He also served as press secretary to U.S. Senator Russell Long of Louisiana. He was press secretary for the 1990 re-election campaign of U.S. Senator J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, the 1992 and 1998 Breaux re-election campaigns and the 2003 Blanco campaign.