The Invasion That Wasn’t
Conspiracy theories in small-town Alabama
Elaina Plott Calabro
Elaina Plott Calabro is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Previously, she covered politics and the 2020 election for The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine. She is currently at work on a book about the relationship between former Alabama Governor George Wallace and Frank Johnson, the federal judge who regularly upended Wallace’s segregationist agenda. She was born and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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