Since his contract as a senior news analyst at NPR was terminated in October, Juan Williams has found no shortage of platforms from which he can express himself. In addition to the new contract he signed with the Fox News Channel, amid a dispute over remarks he made on “The O’Reilly Factor,” he has now entered into a two-book deal with the Crown Publishers imprint of the Crown Publishing Group at Random House, the imprint said on Tuesday. Crown said in a statement that the first book from Mr. Williams, planned for a summer publication and not yet titled, will “focus on free speech and the growing difficulty in America of speaking out on sensitive topics.” In the book Mr. Williams “will argue that the American public benefits from a vigorous and full-throated debate on hot button issues of political and cultural import” and “chronicle his own first-hand experience of the consequences of crossing the line in public expression,” the statement said.Read that NYT article here. See also: Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
, Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (African American History (Penguin))
, My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience (AARP)
