Straight Ahead: The Memoirs of a Mississippi Governor

These memoirs chronicle the life and times of one of Mississippi's most prominent attorneys and the state's fifty-sixth governor, from his birth in rural Lafayette County in 1926 through his two terms as district attorney of Hinds, Madison, and Yazoo Counties, the Beckwith Trials, his 1967 and 1971 gubernatorial campaigns, and the legendary 1978 senatorial race, his last campaign in 1987, and his life after politics.