“So Splendid It Hurts”

NOTES

• Marshall Frady to Robert Lescher, Feb. 28, 1972, “Correspondence,” box 42, “Reconsidering Fidel,” Marshall Frady Papers, MS Collection No. 1099, MARBL, Emory University (below, cited as MFP; most of the letters appear to be drafts or carbons of drafts, not finished letters).
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• See David Halberstam's “Marshall Frady: A Son of the South,” introduction to the re-release of Frady's Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness (New York: Simon & Schuster Papers, 2006), xiii-xxiii. In one letter, Frady cited Mailer's early praise in The New York Review of Books and in another letter to Frady, Mailer wrote: “I obviously enjoyed your page of tasty prose and would try to return auctorial tender but my mouth tastes like tablets.”
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• Marshall Frady to “Herman,” Oct. 12, 1989, box 55, MFP.
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• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “Billy Graham Review,” The New Republic, July 7 & 14, 1979, 28.
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• George McMillan, The Boston Globe, July 27, 1979. n.p., “Drafts, Reviews,” box 23, “Billy Graham: A Parable of Righteousness,” MFP.
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• Willie Morris, New York Days (Boston: Little Brown, 1993), 81–99; and Berkley Hudson and Rebecca Townsend, “Unraveling the Web of Intimacy and Influence: Willie Morris and Harper's Magazine,” Literary Journalism Studies 1, no. 2 (Fall 2009): 63–78.
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• Friedel Ungeheuer to Willie Morris, Nov. 19, 1968, box 55, MFP. Ungheheuer, a writer whose work appeared in Harper's in the same issue, told Morris that Frady's piece on California “made Time's hapless cover look really sick. It's a pleasure to appear in such company.”
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• Marshall Frady to “Herman,” n.d., box 17, “Across a Darkling Plain,” MFP.
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• Marshall Frady, “American Innocent in the Middle East,” Harper's, October 1970, 55–80; November 1970, 104–19; January 1971, 65–79.
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• G. Dorothy de Santillana to Marshall Frady, Sept. 25, 1970, box 17, “Across a Darkling Plain,” MFP; and Marshall Frady, Across a Darkling Plain: An American's Passage through the Middle East (New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1971).
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• Marshall Frady to Willie Morris, March 26, 1992, box 55, “Correspondence,” MFP.
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• New York Days, 60–61, and excerpted as “Heady Day, Hedy Nights,” Washington Post, Sept. 12, 1993.
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• Marshall Frady to Willie Morris, Feb. 24, 1993, box 55, “Correspondence,” MFP.
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• Willie Morris to Marshall Frady, Oct. 5, 1980, box 55, “Correspondence,” MFP.
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• Marshall Frady to Robert Gottlieb, n.d., c. 1988, box 55, MFP.
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• Marshall Frady to Citibank credit manager, The Lakes, Nev., Oct. 21, 1988, box 55, MFP.
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• Frady to Gottlieb.
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• Marshall Frady, “The Gift,” Feb. 3, 1992, 36–69; “History Is upon Us,” Feb. 10, 1992, 41–75; “Without Portfolio,” Feb. 17, 1992, 39–69; and “An American Family,” The New Yorker, April 29, 1996, 148–57.
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• Marshall Frady, Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson (New York: Random House, 1996).
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• “Dear Bob,” n.d. Short draft begins “I'm still tottering around out here a little stunned. Just can't quite process it yet.” Marshall Frady, apparently to Robert Gottlieb around July 1992, on his leaving The New Yorker, box 55, MFP.
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• Frady, Southerners, 331, 332.
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• Frady, Jesse, 5.
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• Marshall Frady, “Chairman Skinflint,” Playboy, August 1973, 78.
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• Marshall Frady to Jesse Jackson, Jan. 18, 1989, box 39, MFP.
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• Marshall Frady, “A Personal Preliminary,” in Southerners, xxiv.
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• “Marshall Frady: Politics and the Image Makers,” The Furman Magazine, winter/spring 1971, 14–20.
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• Marshall Frady to Joe Cumming, Dec. 3, 1964, donated by the author to MARBL to be added to MFP.
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• Marshall Frady to Willie Morris, May 3, 1979, box 55. MFP.
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• Marshall Frady to Will D. Campbell, June 2, 1976, box 55, MFP.
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• Marshall Frady to “Folks,” n.d., but described as December in Camden, S.C., home, box 55, MFP.
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• David Rosenthal to Marshall Frady, May 9, 1996, box 39, MFP.
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• Lewis Lapham to Marshall Frady, Oct. 8, 1971; Frady to Lapham, Dec. 18, 1975, box 55, MFP.
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• “Rating TV's Investigative Reporters,” TV Guide, Jan. 22–28, 1983.
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• Marshall Frady, “Can Journalism Really Tell the Truth?,” Furman Magazine, Summer 1993, 18–24. The article was adapted from a lecture Frady gave at Furman in October 1992.
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• Frady to Credit Manager, Citibank.
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• Marshall Frady, “Women Who Wait,” Good Housekeeping, May 1966, 100.
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• Marshall Frady to his agent Sterling Lord, Aug. 11, 1975, box 55, MFP. Frady's description: “two storm-troopers come around the side of the house: a half-an-hour later, I'm imprisoned, locked in a dingy dimly-lit kennel downtown that was like a human dog-pound.”
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• Marshall Frady to Harvey Strassman, July 10, 1990, box 55, MFP.
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• Marshall Frady email to Jack Pratt, n.d., 2003, box 55, MFP.
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• Marshall Frady's memos on story ideas for ABC News to “Dear Av,” Roone Arledge, and others are in box 51, MFP.
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• Marshall Frady to Sam Zelman of CNN, April 23, 1980, box 55, MFP.
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• Marshall Frady to Joe Cumming, Dec. 3, 1964, notes faculty who said a Frady novel titled “Martyrs” showed a fine style with “superb” characters, “except, disconcertingly enough, the hero, who was a bit ‘wraith-like.’”
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• Rust Hills to Marshall Frady, Dec. 18, 1993, box 50, MFP.
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• Robert Sherrill, “Southerners,” New York Times Review of Books, Sept. 28, 1980.
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