Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond
Jack Bassteaches at the College of Charleston. He has written for theNew York Times, theWashington Post, and theLos Angeles Times,and is the author or co-author of six nonfiction books, includingThe Transformation of Southern Politics, Taming the  Storm,winner of the 1994 Robert Kennedy Book Award, and the 1998 biography,Ol' Strom, on which he collaborated with Marilyn Walser Thompson.Marilyn Walser Thompsonwas an  award-winning reporter in South Carolina, where she covered Thurmond in the late 1970s. She later served as assistant managing editor for investigations at theWashington Postand  in 2004 became vice president and editor of Kentucky'sLexington Herald-Leader. Thompson is the author or co-author of three  previous nonfiction books.