John Bartlow Martin

Ray E. Boomhower is author of The People's Choice: Congressman Jim Jontz of Indiana and Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary (IUP, 2008). He is Senior Editor of Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, the quarterly magazine of the Indiana Historical Society.

• Preface1. The Responsible Reporter2. A Mean Street in a Mean City3. Two Cents a Word4. The Big Slicks5. All the Way with Adlai6. The New America7. The Honorable Ambassador8. LBJ and Adlai9. The Return of the Native10. As Time Goes ByBibliographyNotesIndex

This book offers important insights for students of journalism, the media, presidential campaigns, and foreign affairs. On the whole, Boomhower keeps Martin's story lively and moving, and he handles each aspect of it with economy and grace. Martin would have been proud.(The Michigan Historical Review) A fine book, detailed and thorough. It should be mandatory reading in journalism schools across the land.(Chicago Tribune) A thoroughly researched biography of a fascinating champion of the underdog who spent his formative years in Indianapolis and later had a remarkable, far-reaching career in journalism and politics...Boomhower, who works for the Indiana Historical Society, is the dean of biographers of Hoosiers...(Indianapolis Star) "Boomhower's biography is a valuable souvenir of an era when magazine journalism was a vital and important medium of the American culture."(Middle West Review)