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Telling It Straight

By Jere Nash

Jackson Free Press | July 11, 2007

Mills devotes chapters to the "Three Kings of Tombigbee Country" (Elvis, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus), former legislators Butch Lambert and Jerry Wilburn, former state Supreme Court Justice Armis Hawkins and Mill's life as a young legislator staying at the old Sun-N-Sand Motel.

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Tags: Michael P. Mills, Twice Told Tombigbee Tales, Nonfiction Reviews

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