John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
The Bookmonger
Hosted by National Review’s national correspondent and professor at Hillsdale College, John J. Miller, the Bookmonger features ten-minute interviews with today’s top authors on current events, politics, history, and more.
Episode 185: Bill Steigerwald
Ray Sprigle embarked on an undercover mission of journalism in 1948, and Bill Steigerwald describes what Sprigle found in 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story that Exposed the Jim Crow South.
Ray Sprigle embarked on an undercover mission of journalism in 1948, and Bill Steigerwald describes what Sprigle found in 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story that Exposed the Jim Crow South. Steigerwald describes Sprigle’s reporting, whether his journalism was truly objective, and how Sprigle’s work differs from the the 1961 book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin.
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