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Billy Mounger's story pulls no punches in 'Amidst the Fray': 'people have been telling me for 30 years that I should write a book about the things I've done ...'.

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The title of Billy Mounger's book, "Amidst the Fray," is appropriate. The lifelong Jacksonian has never flinched from wading into a fray for things he believes in, whether it was a high school brawl to defend someone's honor or being in the trenches to establish the Republican Party in Mississippi.

"People have been telling me for 30 years that I should write a book about the things I've done, mainly on the political side. The business side is not that interesting," he said.

The 400-page memoir was published by Quail Ridge Press of Brandon and is subtitled "My Life in Politics, Culture and Mississippi." It also contains letters, historical notes and photographs.

Not one to mince words, Mounger says of his days at the old Jackson Central High School, "In those days that's where everybody went to school if they weren't black or Catholic. I got in some fights and they were renowned. I tend to get involved in things; maybe it's fights to protect someone's honor. I stick my nose...

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