Robert Mann holds the Manship Chair in Journalism at Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication. A former political writer for several Louisiana daily newspapers, he served as a senior aide to US Senators Russell Long and John Breaux as well as Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco. Mann is the author of critically acclaimed books about the American civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the 1964 presidential election, American wartime dissent, and Ronald Reagan. His latest book is a memoir, Backrooms and Bayous: My Life in Louisiana Politics.
