About Bob Mann

Robert “Bob” Mann held the Manship Chair at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University for 18 years. He is the author of nine books, including critically acclaimed political histories of the U.S. civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, American wartime dissent, Ronald Reagan, and the 1964 presidential election. His latest book is Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU, published by LSU Press. His 10th book, to be published next spring by LSU is You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song.

He has written for many national publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Politico, Salon, Vox, and Smithsonian magazine. From 2013 to 2018, he wrote a weekly political column in the New Orleans Times-Picayune. In the early 1980s, he covered Louisiana politics as a reporter for the Shreveport Journal and the Monroe News-Star. 

Bob spent over 20 years in politics as a senior aide to US senators Russell Long and John Breaux and Governor Kathleen Blanco. In 2014, he was inducted into the Louisiana Political Hall of Fame.

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