The Road to Pickletown is a collection of newspaper columns by William Jeanes , a former editor-in-chief and publisher of Car and Driver magazine who lives in Mississippi.
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His scholarly writing and reviews have been published in the Journal of Mississippi History
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The Journal of World War I Aviation Historians, and others.
His writing has been published in a score of the world\'s automotive publications as well as in Sports Illustrated, Parade, Playboy, American Heritage, Consumer Digest, the New York Times, and AARP The Magazine.
In 2008, he presented a lecture Mississippi\'s Combat Airmen of World War I as a part of the Millsaps Arts & Lecture series.
He has lectured at the University of Tennessee School of Business, the University of Michigan Engineering School, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Texas.
He served as an adjunct professor of English at Millsaps in 1983, and in 2005 was writer-in-residence at Northwestern University\'s Medill School of Journalism.
In 2010, he received the Livesay Award for service to Millsaps College.
In 2008, he became a Life Trustee.
In 1992, he was named the Millsaps College Alumnus of the Year and was named to the Board of Trustees two years later.
A 1959 graduate of Millsaps College, his undergraduate activities included membership in Pi Kappa Alpha, work with the Millsaps Players, and one season of varsity baseball.
At JWT he was director of the Ford Division account, in which capacity he oversaw $150 million in advertising expenditures (1985 dollars).
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His ten-year advertising career included service as a senior vice president at two major agencies, SSC&B: Lintas and J.
The two large magazines\' annual revenue was $160 million.
In 1993, he became a senior vice president and group publisher at Hachette Magazines and was made publisher of both Car and Driver and Road & Track as well as a group of smaller magazines.
Under his leadership, the magazine became the world\'s largest automotive publication, with annual revenues of $100 million.
He began as a freelancer in the 1970s, became a staff writer at Car and Driver, and after a ten-year career in the advertising agency business, he accepted the position of editor-in-chief at Car and Driver.
About author(s): WILLIAM Jeanes For more than three decades, William Jeanes was a major figure in automotive journalism.
He has been a board member of the Eudora Welty Foundation, writer-in-residence at Northwestern University\'s Medill School of Journalism, and is a Life Trustee of Millsaps College, his alma mater.
The author of The Road to Pickletown lives in Ridgeland, Mississippi.
Long enough to gain perspective on a country that delivers endless fuel for a writer who can spot the fools, frauds, and feeble thinkers from a considerable distance.
He was gone for almost forty years.
William left Mississippi twice, once to serve as an officer in the US Navy, and once to work for magazines and advertising agencies.
In addition to the publications cited, William\'s work has appeared in American Heritage, Air & Space Smithsonian, the New York Times, Consumer Digest, New Times, Advertising Age, and more automotive publications than he cares to count.
Their subjects include the joys of driving at night, wartime baseball, the woman who struck out Babe Ruth, the Safari Rally in Kenya, shooting sporting clays, and Elvis as a film critic.
Other columns were written for a national audience and were published in Playboy, Sports Illustrated, the Saturday Evening Post, Car and Driver, and Automobile.
Most but by no means all have a connection to Mississippi and the south--as seen by a native son who spent more than half his life in New York City and in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
The columns range in tone from warmly humorous to serious outrage and cover subjects that veer from progressive politics to prohibition and from Cowbells to Cuba.
The Sun is headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi.
The pieces include an eclectic selection of recent columns from William\'s weekly newspaper, the Northside Sun.
The Road to Pickletown is a collection of newspaper columns by William Jeanes , a former editor-in-chief and publisher of Car and Driver magazine who lives in Mississippi
