Pat Toomay & Frye Gaillard 
A Word on Words 
The Best of John Seigenthaler’s Interviews

For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted
A Word on Words on Nashville’s public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most interesting and most impor­tant writers of our time. These in-depth exchanges revealed much about the writers who appeared on his show and gave a glimpse into their creative pro­cesses. Seigenthaler was a deeply engaged reader and a generous interviewer, a true craftsman. Frye Gaillard and Pat Toomay have collected and transcribed some of the iconic interactions from the show.



Featuring interviews with:

Arna Bontemps • Marshall Chapman • Pat Conroy • Rodney Crowell • John Egerton • Jesse Hill Ford • Charles Fountain • William Price Fox • Kinky Friedman • Frye Gaillard • Nikki Giovanni • Doris Kearns Goodwin • David Halberstam • Waylon Jennings • John Lewis • David Maraniss • William Marshall • Jon Meacham • Ann Patchett • Alice Randall • Dori Sanders • John Seigenthaler Sr. • Marty Stuart • Pat Toomay

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Introduction: The Breadth, Depth, and Passion of John Seigenthaler , by Frye Gaillard




Part I: Civil Rights

Arna Bontemps,
Free at Last: The Life of Frederick Douglass and
Great Slave Narratives

John Egerton,
Speak Now against The Day

John Lewis,
Walking with The Wind

David Halberstam,
The Children

Frye Gaillard,
Cradle of Freedom




Part II: Literature

Jesse Hill Ford,
The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones

Pat Conroy,
The Death of Santini

Ann Patchett,
The Patron Saint of Liars

Dori Sanders,
Clover

Alice Randall,
The Wind Done Gone

Nikki Giovanni,
Chasing Utopia




Part III: Music

Marshall Chapman,
Goodbye Little Rock and Roller

Marty Stuart,
Country Music: The Masters

Rodney Crowell,
Chinaberry Sidewalks

Waylon Jennings,
Waylon: An Autobiography

Kinky Friedman,
The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover




Part IV: Sports

Charles Fountain,
Sportswriter: The Life and Times of Grantland Rice

William Marshall,
Baseball’s Pivotal Era, 1945–1951

William Price Fox,
Satchel Paige’s America

Pat Toomay,
On Any Given Sunday




Part V: The Presidency

Jon Meacham,
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Doris Kearns Goodwin,
Team of Rivals

David Maraniss,
Barack Obama: The Story

John Seigenthaler Sr.,
James K. Polk




Epilogue , by Andrew Maraniss


Books Featured in This Volume

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Marshall Chapman moved to Nashville in 1967 to attend Vanderbilt University, and wrote her first song in 1973. Her songs have been recorded by Conway Twitty, Jimmy Buffett, and many others. She is a contributing editor for Garden & Gun magazine and the author of Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller, which was a finalist for the 2004 SEBA Book Award and Book Critics Circle Award.