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10. “Hope Watermelon Crawl-including 1926 Film of Hope, Arkansas Watermelon Festival,” YouTube video, 3:06, posted by “jonkevinmck,” May 22, 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhCx4gFZA5U.
11. “Hempstead County Has Great Year,” Hope Star and Daily Press, January 2, 1930, 6.
12. “The Value of a Brand,” Hope Star, January 3, 1930, 2.
13. “66-Year Liquor Record,” Hope Star, December 20, 1935, 6.
14. “Hempstead Courthouse Made Possible by Federal PWA Grant,” Hope Star, November 28, 1939, 1.
15. “New Fire Station Is Modern 2-Story Mission Building,” Hope Star, November 28, 1938, 2.
16. Ibid.
17. Williams, Hope, 67.
18. “Advertisement: Hope Star Offers This Up-to-date Encyclopedia to Its Readers,” Hope Star, April 3, 1936, 7.
19. Society, Hope Star, October 8, 1936, 3.
20. “Red Cross Roll Call Hits $4,035 for New High,” Hope Star, December 13, 1941, 1, 4.
21. “Summer Weather Brings Out the Bathers at Hope’s Pines Pool on Opening Week of the Swim Season,” Hope Star, May 30, 1941, 1.
22. “Births: Hempstead County,” Hope Star, September 28, 1946, 4.
23. “159 Hempstead County Men Will Report to U.S. Armed Service March 2,” Hope Star, February 22, 1943, 1.
24. “Social and Personal: Elder-Huckabee Wedding Announced,” Hope Star, November 3, 1948, 3.
25. Mike Huckabee, personal correspondence with the author, 2015.
Chapter 3: One Day in 1955
1. Mike Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime: How to Be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2000), 13.
2. John D. Gartner, In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008). Also, for more information about the relationship between Clinton and the Wright family, see George Wright Jr., interview by Andrew Dowdle, William Jefferson Clinton History Project, September 15, 2014, http://pryorcenter.uark.edu/projects/William%20Jefferson%20Clinton/WRIGHT-George-Jr/transcripts/WrightGClinton.pdf.
3. “TIME Magazine Cover: Gov. Orval Faubus, September 23, 1957,” Time, http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19570923,00.html.
4. “Speech of Governor Orval E. Faubus, September 2, 1957,” posted at http://www.southerncolloqrhetoric.net/web/resources/Faubus570902.pdf, accessed June 1, 2015.
5. Ibid.
6. Ronald Reagan and Kiron K. Skinner, Reagan, in His Own Hand (New York: Free Press, 2001), 252–53.
7. Ibid.
8. Society, Hope Star, March 11, 1955, 3.
9. “Q&A with Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb,” C-SPAN, January 21, 2005, http://www.c-span.org/video/transcript/?id=7949.
10. Society, Hope Star, February 14, 1955, 3.
11. Ibid., June 18, 1955, 18.
12. Nightline Transcripts, “Making Hillary Clinton an Issue,” Frontline, March 26, 1992, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/etc/03261992.html.
13. “Body of Kidnapped Boy Found in River,” San Bernardino County Sun, September 1, 1955, 12; “Mississippi’s ‘Wolf-Whistle’ Murder Trial Opens Today,” Blytheville Courier News, September 19, 1955, 14.
14. Mamie Mobley and Chris Benson, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America (New York: Random House, 2003); Harriet Pollack, Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008).
15. Robert Smith, “All of Us, Even the Most Righteous, Had a Part in Emmett Till’s Death,” Berkshire County Eagle, January 16, 1956, 15.
Chapter 4: American Pie
1. “Star’s Camera Goes to a Kindergarten Birthday Party,” Hope Star, December 16, 1960, 8; Joshua Bradley Williams, Hope: Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2010), 120.
2. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, August 2014.
3. “Dorcas SS Class Meets,” Hope Star, July 15, 1963, 3.
4. Pat Huckabee Harris, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.
5. Ibid.
6. “Q&A with Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb,” C-SPAN, January 21, 2005, http://www.c-span.org/video/transcript/?id=7949.
7. Mike Huckabee and John Perry, Character Makes a Difference: Where I’m From, Where I’ve Been, What I Believe (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2007), 147.
8. “Q&A with Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb.”
9. Mike Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime: How to Be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2000), 121.
10. Ibid., 3.
11. “Melrose H D Club Meets,” Hope Star, May 13, 1964, 3.
12. Phyllis Schlafly, A Choice Not an Echo: The Inside Story of How American Presidents Are Chosen, 3rd ed. (Alton, IL: Pere Marquette, 1964).
13. J. Howard Crawford, “Home Demonstration Work in Arkansas,” University of Arkansas, accessed May 30, 2015, http://libinfo.uark.edu/aas/issues/1951v4/v4a26.pdf.
14. Elizabeth Griffin Hill, A Splendid Piece of Work: One Hundred Years of Arkansas’s Home Demonstration and Extension Homemaker’s Clubs (n.p.: CreateSpace, 2012), 186, 260.
15. Crawford, “Home Demonstration Work in Arkansas.”
16. Mike Huckabee, From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 STOPS to Restoring America’s Greatness (New York: Center Street, 2007), 3–4.
17. Huckabee Harris, personal interview.
18. Inquirer Wire Services, “Former Aide Will Pay for Copter Ride,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 1, 1994, http://articles.philly.com/1994-06-01/news/25831747_1_golf-trip-presidential-helicopters-watkins.
19. “Giants, No Manager,” Hope Star, May 19, 1959, 4.
20. From the book endorsement Mike Huckabee wrote for Scott Lamb and Tim Ellsworth, Pujols: More than the Game (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2011).
21. “Three Youthful Singing Idols Die in Crash,” Hope Star, February 3, 1959, 1.
22. Don McLean, “Commentary: Buddy Holly, rock music genius,” CNN, February 1, 2009, http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/01/mclean.buddy.holly/.
23. Louise Roug, “Huckabee: Republican Rock Star,” Los Angeles Times, October 28, 2007, http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/28/nation/na-huckabee28.
Chapter 5: Guitars, Hobos, and Kool-Aid
1. NPR Staff, “Mike Huckabee’s Musical Education,” http://www.wbur.org/npr/154362480/Mike-huckabees-musical-education.
2. Ibid.
3. Pat Huckabee Harris, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.
4. NPR Staff, “Mike Huckabee’s Musical Education,” and personal interview with the author, 2014.
5. Mike Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime: How to Be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2000), 67.
6. Huckabee Harris, personal interview.
7. Liz Clarke, “A Higher Power,” Washington Post, December 15, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121401861.html.
8. Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime, 67–68.
9. “Transcript: Mike Huckabee at the RNC,” NPR, September 3, 2008, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94256318.
10. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2014.
11. Pat Huckabee Harris, personal interview with the author and/or the author’s team, spring 2015.
12. Ibid.
13. “Hope Fireman Attends a 3-Day Study,” Hope Star, July 1, 1966, 1.
14. Huckabee Harris, personal interview.
15. Marynell Branch (nee Huckabee), personal interview with the author and/or the author’s team, spring 2015.
16. Huckabee Harris, personal interview.
17. “Q&A with Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb,” C-SPAN, January 21, 2005, http://www.c-span.org/video/transcript/?id=7949.
18. Ibid.
19. Huckabee Harris, personal interview.
Chapter 6: Fortunate Son
1. Quoted in Craig Werner, Up Around the Bend: The Oral History of Creedence Clearwater Revival (New York: Spike, 1998), 123.
2. “Clinton in Arkansas to Remember Mentor,” Hour (Norwalk, CT), October 22, 2002, A2.
3. “Arkansan Is Rhodes Scholar,” Hope Star, December 18, 1967, 1.
4. Tom Cullen, “War, Student Unrest Haunt American Scholars at Oxford,” Courier News (Blytheville, AR), June 11, 1969, 21.
5. Mike Huckabee, Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork: A 12-Stop Program to End Bad Habits and Begin a Healthy Lifestyle (New York: Center Street, 2005), 54.
6. Ibid.
7. Pat Huckabee Harris, personal interview with the author and/or the author’s team, spring 2015.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Robert Frost, “The Death of the Hired Man,” North of Boston (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915; n.p.: CreateSpace, 2012), 7.
14. Mike Huckabee, A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories That Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit (New York: Sentinel, 2009), 50.
15. Heard by the author during several of Mike Huckabee’s speaking engagements in 2014 and 2015. Also quoted in Mike Huckabee, “Huckabee: The GOP’s Problem Is Not Being Too Conservative,” Huckabee with Mike Huckabee (website), July 27, 2013, http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/huckabee/transcript/huckabee-gop039s-problem-not-being-too-conservative.
16. Ariel Levy, “Prodigal Son,” New Yorker, June 28, 2010, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/06/28/prodigal-son.
17. Huckabee Harris, personal interview.
18. “Awards Given at Scout Court of Honor,” Hope Star, September 14, 1967, 9.
19. “Beginning of Boy Scouts in Hope,” Hope Star, November 16, 1972, 6.
20. “Boost the Hope Boy Scout Movement,” Hope Star, October 7, 1937, 6.
21. Grace Leonhart, “Harlan Scout Center Opens,” Hope Star, September 30, 2013, http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130930/NEWS/130939960.
22. “Read the Mike Huckabee Transcript,” the Life (Part 2) page on the website of PBS, accessed May 30, 2015, http://www.pbs.org/lifepart2/exclusives/Mike-huckabee-and-1968/read-Mike-huckabee-transcript.
23. Mike Huckabee, “Huckabee: It’s a Right, Wrong Thing,” Fox News, March 31, 2012, http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/huckabee/transcript/huckabee-it039s-right-wrong-thing.
Chapter 7: Bridge over Troubled Water
1. “East Second Street Blockade?” Hope Star, July 26, 1968, 4.
2. Michael Heatley and Spencer Leigh, Behind the Song: The Stories of 100 Great Pop & Rock Classics (London: Blandford, 1998), 29.
3. Harry King, “Teacher Says He Meant Every Word,” Hope Star, May 29, 1970, 10.
4. Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: America’s Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon, 1965–1972 (London: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 503.
5. Matt Lakin, “Protests and Progress: Nixon Visit Put Knoxville on National Stage,” Knoxville News Sentinel, August 26, 2012, http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local-news/nixon-visit-started-70s-in-spotlight.
6. “Richard Nixon: Remarks at Dr. Billy Graham’s East Tennessee Crusade,” The American Presidency Project, May 28, 1970, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2523.
7. Escar Thompson, “Nixon Booed at Graham Crusade Talk,” Hope Star, May 29, 1970, 1.
8. Ibid.
9. Judith Cummings, “Transcripts Vex Graham, but He Stands by Nixon,” New York Times, May 29, 1974, https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/07/06/reviews/graham-nixon.html.
10. Falwell quoted in “The Zeal of Thy House,” With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America, 1969–1974, episode 2 (PBS Video, 1996), VHS.
11. Mike Huckabee, Character Makes a Difference (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2007), 144–45.
12. Ibid., 144.
13. Joshua Bradley Williams, Hope: Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2010), 115.
14. “Mike Huckabee: Remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference: February 9, 2008” (transcript), The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=99340.
15. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, summer 2014.
16. “Mike Huckabee: Remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference.”
17. “Q&A with Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb,” C-SPAN, January 21, 2005, http://www.c-span.org/video/transcript/?id=7949.
18. Pat Huckabee Harris, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.
19. “Mike Huckabee: Remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference.”
20. Ibid.
21. “Haskell Jones: A Hustler for Hope,” Hope Star, August 20, 1975, 47.
22. “Mike Huckabee: Remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference.”
23. Ibid.
24. “Haskell Jones: A Hustler for Hope.”
25. “All Around Town,” Hope Star, January 17, 1969, 1.
26. Ibid.
27. “Bloodmobile Is Coming to Hope Friday,” Hope Star, September 17, 1968, 1.
28. “Advertisement,” Hope Star, September 5, 1969, 8.
29. Ralph Routon, “The Real Story, 40 Years Later,” website of the Hope High School Class of 1970, November 9, 2010, http://www.classcreator.com/Hope-AR-1970/class_custom8.cfm (originally a Hope Star article).
30. Ibid.
31. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015.
32. “Good Citizenship Award,” Hope Star, February 27, 1969, 5.
33. “Student Council Elects for New Year,” Hope Star, May 13, 1970, 2.
34. Barry Schweid, “Blackmun Likely Bends U.S. Court a Little More to the Right,” Hope Star, May 13, 1970, 2.
35. “Students Have Goodwill Party,” Hope Star, January 8, 1971, 10.
36. Ibid.
37. Huckabee, personal interview.
38. Lester Sitzes, personal interview with the author, April 2015.
39. “Winner of Joe Amour Award,” Hope Star, February 9, 1971, 3.
40. “Big Crowd Expected at Fair Park,” Hope Star, April 29, 1971, 2.
41. David Fisher and Terry Bradshaw, It’s Only a Game (New York: Atria, 2014), 25.
42. Holly Anderson, “Duck Punt: How Phil Robertson Found Stardom After Giving Up Football,” Sports Illustrated, March 20, 2012, http://www.si.com/college-football/campus-union/2012/03/22/duck-punt-how-phil-robertson-found-stardom-after-giving-up-football.
43. Ariel Levy, “Prodigal Son,” New Yorker, June 28, 2010, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/06/28/prodigal-son.
44. “Q&A with Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb.”
45. See Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life, exp. ed. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2013).
46. Huckabee, personal interview.
47. Levy, “Prodigal Son.”
48. Marynell Branch, personal interview with
the author, 2015.
49. Liz Clarke, “A Higher Power,” Washington Post, December 15, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121401861.html.
Chapter 8: Rocket Man
1. Robert Harold Schuller, The Be (Happy) Attitudes: Eight Positive Attitudes That Can Transform Your Life (Irving, TX: Word, 1996), 104.
2. Liz Clarke, “A Higher Power,” Washington Post, December 15, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121401861.html.
3. “Rotary Club Speaker,” Hope Star, August 2, 1971, 8.
4. “Lions Club Meets,” Hope Star, August 18, 1971, 10.
5. Jeff Foust, “A Headline Huckabee Doesn’t Want to See Yet,” Space Politics, July 23, 2007, http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/07/23/a-headline-huckabee-doesnt-want-to-see-yet/.
6. Hugh O’Brian, “The Freedom to Choose—a Message from Hugh O’Brian,” http://www.hoby.org/about-hugh-obrian.
Chapter 9: (No) Teenage Wasteland
1. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015.
2. Pete Fornatale, “Woodstock 1969: High Times,” Guitar World, September 15, 2009, http://www11.guitarworld.com/woodstock-1969-high-times?page=0,4.
3. “Hunter S. Thompson Brings ‘Fear and Loathing’ to Island,” Billboard, October 26, 1996, 10, 90.
4. Mikal Gilmore, “The Last Outlaw,” Rolling Stone, March 2005, 44–47.
5. Daniel K. Williams, God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 161.
6. Paul Baker, Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?: Jesus Music—Where It Began, Where It Is, and Where It Is Going (Waco: Word, 1979).
7. The Bobcat (Hope High School Yearbook), 1972, 11.
8. “Hope Students Going to Alabama Meet,” Hope Star, November 8, 1971, 1.
9. Mike Huckabee and Lester Sitzes, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.
10. “Crowd of 515 Turns Out for KXAR’s 25th Anniversary Party,” Hope Star, May 23, 1971, 8.
11. Lester Sitzes, personal interview with the author, April 2015.
12. Ibid.
13. Huckabee and Janet McCain Huckabee, personal interview.