Big Man and the Little Men by Clifford Thompson

Big Man and the Little Men by Clifford Thompson

A writer navigates shady--and potentially deadly--political campaigns in this vibrant graphic novel about unconscious bias and how the cynical exploit it.

April Wells, a celebrated African-American memoirist and essayist, lands a writing assignment unlike any she has had before: covering the presidential campaign of the presumptive Democratic nominee, William Waters, for a high-profile magazine. Waters, a well-spoken progressive with lofty ideals of unity in diversity, faces the polar opposite in his Republican challenger, the anti-intellectual, narcissistic Lee Newsome, who seeks to gain power by sowing division. Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, to be held in April's hometown, Waters must also contend with a potential Achilles' heel: persistent rumors that he has cheated on his wife with young male staffers.
     At first excited about the assignment, April sometimes feels out of her depth and wonders why she was chosen instead of a veteran journalist. When a woman contacts her accusing Waters of sexual assault, April is torn: should she do her job and report this? Or should she sit on it, in case the damage to Waters's reputation would help Newsome win the presidency?
     Events soon spiral out of control, and April, feeling that her life may be in danger but mistrusting the police and the FBI, thinks of one person she can count on: the Big Man, a longtime friend from her hometown, now its mayor. Along with his stalwart crew of Little Men, they set out to unravel a gripping mystery that goes all the way to the top.

Thompson, Clifford: - Clifford Thompson received a Whiting Writers' Award for nonfiction in 2013 for LOVE FOR SALE AND OTHER ESSAYS (Autumn House Press). He is the author of a memoir, TWIN OF BLACKNESS (Autumn House Press, 2015), as well as the novel Signifying Nothing, and his essays on books, film, jazz, and American identity have appeared in publications including The Threepenny Review, The Iowa Review, Commonweal, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, Oxford American, and Black Issues Book Review. For over a dozen years he served as editor in chief of Current Biography, and he has held adjunct professorships at Columbia University and New York University. Thompson is married with two daughters and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN 13	9781635422009
ISBN 10	1635422000
Title	Big Man and the Little Men
Author	Clifford Thompson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Other Press LLC
Year published	2022-11-22
Number of pages	96
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.