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{{Infobox person
| name= Robert Towley "Bob" Mann, Jr.
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| nationality =[[United States|American]]
| birth_date=September 2, 1958
| birth_place=Place of birth missing<br>
Resident of [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]
| death_date =
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| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| occupation=[[Louisiana State University]] professor<br>
[[Journalist]], Political [[historian]]
| spouse=Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Horaist Mann
| children =Including:<br>
Robert T. Mann, III
| alma_mater=University of Louisiana at [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] <br>
University of California at Dominguez Hills, [[California]]
}}
'''Robert Townley Mann, Jr.''', known as '''Bob Mann''' (born September 2, 1958), is a [[journalist]] and primarily political [[historian]] who holds the Douglas Manship Chair of Journalism at [[Louisiana State University]] in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]. He also pens a weekly political column for ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune'' in [[New Orleans]]..
==Background==
Mann is the son of Robert Mann, Sr. (1924-2008), a native of Beaumont, [[Texas]], and the former Charlene Elizabeth Wellhausen (born c. 1935). The senior Mann died in Fredericksburg, [[Virginia]], where their son, Paul Edward Mann (born 1962), resides. Bob Mann also has a sister, Sarah Elizabeth Luker of Seabrook, near [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], Texas. The senior Mann was a veteran of the [[United States Coast Guard]] during [[World War II]] and was employed by Sun Oil Company and was for more than two decades a [[Church of Christ]] minister in Texas, Louisiana, and [[New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peerygenealogy.com/home/e1690.htm|title=Robert Townley Mann, Sr.|publisher=''The Beaumont Enterprise'', August 13, 2008|accessdate=October 18, 2013}}</ref>
Mann is married to the former Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Horaist (born June 1961), the executive director of the Louisiana Prison Chapel Foundation, which in 2013 sponsored the drama, ''The Life of Jesus Christ'', performed by inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/features/faith/5654151-123/casting-the-first-stone|title=Mark H. Hunter, Film follows inmate actors in Jesus play at Angola prison, July 23, 2013|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate''|accessdate=October 18, 2013}}</ref>
==Political life==
Mann attended the University of Louisiana at [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], at wich [[Dave Norris]] was his economics professor; since 1978, Norris has been the [[mayor]] of West Monroe located west of the Ouachita River in Ouachita Parish. After a stint with the since defunct ''[[Shreveport Journal]]'' in [[Shreveport]], Louisiana, Mann worked for the ''The Monroe News-Star]]'',<ref name=blog/> where he was assigned to cover the West Monroe City Hall and hence renewed his friendship with Mayor Norris.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bobmannblog.com/2012/06/12/three-tiger-stadiums-filled-with-poor-children-the-scandal-of-poverty-in-louisiana/|title=Three Tiger Stadiums Filled With Poor Children: The Scandal of Poverty in Louisiana, June 12, 2012|publisher=bobmannblog.com|accessdate=October 29, 2013}}</ref> He also attended California State University in Dominguez Hills, [[California]].
A committed [[Democratic Party|Democrat]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voterportal.sos.la.gov/home.aspx|title=Robert Townley Mann, Jr.|publisher=voterportal.sos.la.gov|accessdate=October 18, 2013}}</ref> Mann joined the staff of [[U.S. Senator]] [[Russell B. Long]] of Louisiana late in Long's lengthy tenure in office. He continued as state director and press secretary under Long's successor, [[John Breaux]], another Democrat. In 1990, he was press secretary for the final reelection of U.S. Senator [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], who defeated the former [[Ku Klux Klan]]sman [[David Duke]], then a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. In 2003, Mann was communications director for [[Kathleen Blanco]], the [[Lafayette]] Democrat who in 2003 defeated [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Bobby Jindal]] for [[governor]] of Louisiana but bowed out after one term, only to be succeeded in 2008 by Jindal.<ref name=blog>{{cite web|url=http://bobmannblog.com/about/|title=About Bob Mann|publisher=bobmannblog.com|accessdate=October 18, 2013}}</ref>
Mann continued to work in the Blanco administration until 2006, when he joined LSU, from which forum he writes and speaks extensively on political topics. In addition to the Manship Chair, he is the director of the LSU Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs.<ref name=lapolmus/> At the centennial observance of the LSU School of Journalism, Mann reflected on the heritage of his institution: "We've gone from being a journalism school, to being a multi-dimensional mass communication school, to being all that, plus finding a way to teach practical politics to our students. I believe we are unique in that regard, and it really gives us a leg up in recruiting.”<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sites01.lsu.edu/wp/lovepurple/2013/11/01/1212/|author=Billy Gomila|title=Manship School of Mass Communication celebrates 100 years of journalism education|publisher=sites01.lsu.edu|accessdate=December 11, 2013}}</ref>
Mann's often-cited blog is called "Something Like the Truth on Politics, Louisiana, and Life".<ref name=blog/> He was highly critical of the Jindal administration on such matters as health care and education. He also scolds Louisiana's Republican former U.S. Senator [[David Vitter]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2013/09/dont_buy_jindals_line_on_healt.html|title=Don't buy Bobby Jindal's line on health care or education: Robert Mann, September 27, 2013|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=October 18, 2013}}</ref>In his columns and blogs, he spoke warmly of U.S. Senator [[Mary Landrieu]], Johnston's successor who has held the seat from 1997 to 2015. Landrieu was unseated in 2014 by the Republican [[U.S. Representative]] [[Bill Cassidy]] of Baton Rouge, who formerly held Louisiana's 6th congressional district seat. In 2013, however, Mann had reported on fundraising problems and low poll number in the early phase of Cassidy's campaign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bobmannblog.com/|title=Dismal numbers: Polling and fundraising woes bedevil Cassidy's campaign against Landrieu|date=October 16, 2013|publisher=Bobmannblog.com|accessdate=October 18, 2013}}</ref>
==Publications==
One of Mann's books, ''Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds: LBJ, Barry Goldwater and the Ad that Changed American Politics'', which according to ''[[The Washington Post]]'', is one of the best political books of 2011.
His other books include:
*''A Journalist’s Diplomatic Mission: Ray Stannard Baker’s World War I Diary'', edited with John Maxwell Hamilton, [[Louisiana State University Press]], 2012
*''Political Communication: The Manship School Guide'', edited with David Perlmutter, LSU Press, 2011
*''Wartime Dissent in America: A History and Anthology'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
*''When Freedom Would Triumph: The Civil Rights Struggle in Congress, 1954-1968'', LSU Press, 2007
*''A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam'', Basic Books, 2001
*''The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell and the Struggle for Civil Rights'', Harcourt Brace, 1996
*''The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Cold War'', Alpha Books, 2002
*''Legacy to Power: Senator Russell Long of Louisiana, Paragon House, 1992.<ref name=blog/>
==Hall of Fame induction pending==
In February 2014, Mann, along with several other political figures, including the late John Smoker Hunt, II, a cousin of Senator Russell Long, and Senator Long's mother, [[Rose McConnell Long]], was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.<ref name=lapolmus>{{cite web|url=http://www.batonrougenews.net/index.php/sid/216909629/scat/3a72c8badb1b144e|title=LSU’s Mann elected to Louisiana Political Hall of Fame, September 7, 2013|publisher=batonrougenews.net|accessdate=October 18, 2013}}</ref> In 2017, West Monroe Mayor Dave Norris received the same honor as his former student.
==References==
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[[Category:Texas]]
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[[Category:Historians]]
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[[Category:Democrats]]
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{{Infobox person
| name= Robert Towley "Bob" Mann, Jr.
| image =
| imagesize =
| caption =
| nationality =[[United States|American]]
| birth_date=September 2, 1958
| birth_place=Place of birth missing<br>
Resident of [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| death_cause=
| resting_place=
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| occupation=[[Louisiana State University]] professor<br>
[[Journalist]], Political [[historian]]
| spouse=Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Horaist Mann
| children =Including:<br>
Robert T. Mann, III
| alma_mater=University of Louisiana at [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] <br>
University of California at Dominguez Hills, [[California]]
}}
'''Robert Townley Mann, Jr.''', known as '''Bob Mann''' (born September 2, 1958), is a [[journalist]] and primarily political [[historian]] who holds the Douglas Manship Chair of Journalism at [[Louisiana State University]] in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]. He also pens a weekly political column for ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune'' in [[New Orleans]]..
==Background==
Mann is the son of Robert Mann, Sr. (1924-2008), a native of Beaumont, [[Texas]], and the former Charlene Elizabeth Wellhausen (born c. 1935). The senior Mann died in Fredericksburg, [[Virginia]], where their son, Paul Edward Mann (born 1962), resides. Bob Mann also has a sister, Sarah Elizabeth Luker of Seabrook, near [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], Texas. The senior Mann was a veteran of the [[United States Coast Guard]] during [[World War II]] and was employed by Sun Oil Company and was for more than two decades a [[Church of Christ]] minister in Texas, Louisiana, and [[New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peerygenealogy.com/home/e1690.htm|title=Robert Townley Mann, Sr.|publisher=''The Beaumont Enterprise'', August 13, 2008|accessdate=October 18, 2013}}</ref>
Mann is married to the former Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Horaist (born June 1961), the executive director of the Louisiana Prison Chapel Foundation, which in 2013 sponsored the drama, ''The Life of Jesus Christ'', performed by inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/features/faith/5654151-123/casting-the-first-stone|title=Mark H. Hunter, Film follows inmate actors in Jesus play at Angola prison, July 23, 2013|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate''|accessdate=October 18, 2013}}</ref>
==Political life==
Mann attended the University of Louisiana at [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], at wich [[Dave Norris]] was his economics professor; since 1978, Norris has been the [[mayor]] of West Monroe located west of the Ouachita River in Ouachita Parish. After a stint with the since defunct ''[[Shreveport Journal]]'' in [[Shreveport]], Louisiana, Mann worked for the ''The Monroe News-Star]]'',<ref name=blog/> where he was assigned to cover the West Monroe City Hall and hence renewed his friendship with Mayor Norris.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bobmannblog.com/2012/06/12/three-tiger-stadiums-filled-with-poor-children-the-scandal-of-poverty-in-louisiana/|title=Three Tiger Stadiums Filled With Poor Children: The Scandal of Poverty in Louisiana, June 12, 2012|publisher=bobmannblog.com|accessdate=October 29, 2013}}</ref> He also attended California State University in Dominguez Hills, [[California]].
A committed [[Democratic Party|Democrat]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voterportal.sos.la.gov/home.aspx|title=Robert Townley Mann, Jr.|publisher=voterportal.sos.la.gov|accessdate=October 18, 2013}}</ref> Mann joined the staff of [[U.S. Senator]] [[Russell B. Long]] of Louisiana late in Long's lengthy tenure in office. He continued as state director and press secretary under Long's successor, [[John Breaux]], another Democrat. In 1990, he was press secretary for the final reelection of U.S. Senator [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], who defeated the former [[Ku Klux Klan]]sman [[David Duke]], then a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. In 2003, Mann was communications director for [[Kathleen Blanco]], the [[Lafayette]] Democrat who in 2003 defeated [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Bobby Jindal]] for [[governor]] of Louisiana but bowed out after one term, only to be succeeded in 2008 by Jindal.<ref name=blog>{{cite web|url=http://bobmannblog.com/about/|title=About Bob Mann|publisher=bobmannblog.com|accessdate=October 18, 2013}}</ref>
Mann continued to work in the Blanco administration until 2006, when he joined LSU, from which forum he writes and speaks extensively on political topics. In addition to the Manship Chair, he is the director of the LSU Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs.<ref name=lapolmus/> At the centennial observance of the LSU School of Journalism, Mann reflected on the heritage of his institution: "We've gone from being a journalism school, to being a multi-dimensional mass communication school, to being all that, plus finding a way to teach practical politics to our students. I believe we are unique in that regard, and it really gives us a leg up in recruiting.”<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sites01.lsu.edu/wp/lovepurple/2013/11/01/1212/|author=Billy Gomila|title=Manship School of Mass Communication celebrates 100 years of journalism education|publisher=sites01.lsu.edu|accessdate=December 11, 2013}}</ref>
Mann's often-cited blog is called "Something Like the Truth on Politics, Louisiana, and Life".<ref name=blog/> He was highly critical of the Jindal administration on such matters as health care and education. He also scolds Louisiana's Republican former U.S. Senator [[David Vitter]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2013/09/dont_buy_jindals_line_on_healt.html|title=Don't buy Bobby Jindal's line on health care or education: Robert Mann, September 27, 2013|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=October 18, 2013}}</ref>In his columns and blogs, he spoke warmly of U.S. Senator [[Mary Landrieu]], Johnston's successor who has held the seat from 1997 to 2015. Landrieu was unseated in 2014 by the Republican [[U.S. Representative]] [[Bill Cassidy]] of Baton Rouge, who formerly held Louisiana's 6th congressional district seat. In 2013, however, Mann had reported on fundraising problems and low poll number in the early phase of Cassidy's campaign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bobmannblog.com/|title=Dismal numbers: Polling and fundraising woes bedevil Cassidy's campaign against Landrieu|date=October 16, 2013|publisher=Bobmannblog.com|accessdate=October 18, 2013}}</ref>
==Publications==
One of Mann's books, ''Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds: LBJ, Barry Goldwater and the Ad that Changed American Politics'', which according to ''[[The Washington Post]]'', is one of the best political books of 2011.
His other books include:
*''A Journalist’s Diplomatic Mission: Ray Stannard Baker’s World War I Diary'', edited with John Maxwell Hamilton, [[Louisiana State University Press]], 2012
*''Political Communication: The Manship School Guide'', edited with David Perlmutter, LSU Press, 2011
*''Wartime Dissent in America: A History and Anthology'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
*''When Freedom Would Triumph: The Civil Rights Struggle in Congress, 1954-1968'', LSU Press, 2007
*''A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam'', Basic Books, 2001
*''The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell and the Struggle for Civil Rights'', Harcourt Brace, 1996
*''The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Cold War'', Alpha Books, 2002
*''Legacy to Power: Senator Russell Long of Louisiana, Paragon House, 1992.<ref name=blog/>
==Hall of Fame induction pending==
In February 2014, Mann, along with several other political figures, including the late John Smoker Hunt, II, a cousin of Senator Russell Long, and Senator Long's mother, [[Rose McConnell Long]], was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.<ref name=lapolmus>{{cite web|url=http://www.batonrougenews.net/index.php/sid/216909629/scat/3a72c8badb1b144e|title=LSU’s Mann elected to Louisiana Political Hall of Fame, September 7, 2013|publisher=batonrougenews.net|accessdate=October 18, 2013}}</ref> In 2017, West Monroe Mayor Dave Norris received the same honor as his former student.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mann, Bob}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Liberals]]