Roger Wilkins is the author of
Jefferson's Pillow
, and that book interested me enough that I read his autobiography. Written in 1982, this book gives the greatest amount of space to Wilkins' career as a black politician in the Democratic administrations of the 1960's. The other phases of his life include writing influential editorials about the Watergate scandal in I think the
Washington Post
. The autobiography shows Wilkins as not always an inspiring man or even a likable one, but always with a
Roger Wilkins is the author of
Jefferson's Pillow
, and that book interested me enough that I read his autobiography. Written in 1982, this book gives the greatest amount of space to Wilkins' career as a black politician in the Democratic administrations of the 1960's. The other phases of his life include writing influential editorials about the Watergate scandal in I think the
Washington Post
. The autobiography shows Wilkins as not always an inspiring man or even a likable one, but always with a great capacity for self-analysis. Particularly interesting are his reflections on the psychological difficulty of being a middle- or upper-class black while most other blacks were being excluded from that social environment.
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