Larry L. King

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  1. Williams for the Defense: The Trial of John Connally

    Edward Bennett Williams prances and preens, whispers, shouts, arches his eyebrows, and in the end intones: “The government has no case. Its case is in shambles.”The jury agrees. And John Connally—whose political career was widely thought to be over—is a free man with a bright future.

  2. Playing Cowboy: That Widespread Breed, the Expatriate

    “All you goddamn expatriates act like time froze somewhere in the 1950s,” a Texan friend told returning native King. “You’d think we hadn’t discovered television down here, or the car, or skin flicks, or dope. Hell, we grew us a President down here. We’ve got tall buildings and longhairs and some of us know how to ski!”