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Frederick Allen was an award-winning reporter and political columnist with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1972 to 1987, when he joined CNN as chief analyst and commentator covering the 1988 presidential contest. His essays for the program ""Inside Politics"" earned CNN a Cable Ace Award, and Allen was cited as best political analyst by the editors of The Hotline. Allen was a founding panelist on the ""Georgia Gang,"" a public affairs show on Atlanta television since 1982. He is the author of three books. His history of the Coca-Cola Company, Secret Formula, was published by HarperCollins in 1994 and has been translated into seven languages. Atlanta Rising, a history of modern Atlanta, was published by Longstreet in 1996 and is taught at several colleges. A Decent, Orderly Lynching, Allen's account of the vigilantes of Montana, was published in 2004 by University of Oklahoma Press. His research into vigilante symbolism was cited by the Western History Association. Allen graduated from Phillips Academy (Andover) and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He and his wife, Linda, live in Atlanta and Cashiers, North Carolina.
"""Rick Allen is more than a keen journalistic observer of Black-White politics in Atlanta and the New South. A conscientious student of race and the region, here he shares his own intimate journey, freely acknowledging personal limitations, when he's been wrong, and when and why his views have changed. So Rick Allen's reckoning with race is insightful, at times unsparing, and throughout a candid, often courageous self-reflection that all of us who care about this subject will benefit from reading.""--Michael Lomax, president of the United Negro College Fund ""Rick Allen's book is a must-read for anyone intrigued--or anguished--by our nation's struggle to come to terms with race over the past half-century. Drawing on his experience as a journalist, including a stint as CNN's lead political commentator, and as a historian, Allen writes with unflinching candor of the changes he has witnessed, in himself as well as society at large, and shows we've come a long way . . . with a long way yet to go.""--Tom Johnson, former president of CNN ""With insight and clarity, Rick Allen has written a memoir that details his fifty years probing the historical and emotional impact of racism on Black Americans (and its toll on White Americans as well). What a task he undertakes! That he succeeds without moralizing--or denying his own complicity rooted in White privilege--is a tribute to his intellectual honesty and dogged reporting skills. Allen's book, with truths that will prick our consciences, should be revelatory to any citizen seeking amity and d�tente between the races. It is a book I wish I had written.""--Wyche Fowler, member of Congress, 1977-1993"
