The Jackson Parish Museum and Fine Arts Association, located at 515 South Cooper Avenue in Jonesboro, is pleased to announce that distinguished author, Robert “Bob” Mann, will be on hand at 12:00 pm on April 3rd for a special signing of his new book You are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song. 

The latest publication about Jackson Parish’s favorite son, follows Mann’s prior publication Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU and continues his love of covering Louisiana politics gained from tenures as political reporter for the Shreveport Journal and Monroe News-Star in the early 1980’s and as a political columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune from 2013-18. 

Mann has also written for many national publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Politica, Salon, Vax and the Smithsonian magazine as well as authoring critically acclaimed political history books on the topics of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, American wartime dissent, Ronald Reagan and the 1964 presidential election.