The University of North Carolina Press, July 1992. Trade Paperback. Of all the people documented by the Foxfire students since 1966, none has been more appealing to readers than Arie Carpenter. For all those who have read and cherished the Foxfire books, here is a loving portrait of a fondly..... More
University of Illinois Press, April 2019. Hardcover. Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on them to assert and maintain racial power, which led to the growth of modern state bureaucracies that eclipsed traditions of local sovereignty. Friction..... More
University of Pennsylvania Press, February 2006. First Edition. Cloth. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea..... More
Univ of Tennessee Pr, June 1965. Hardcover. Dust jacket has some shelf wear. but is wrapped in clear plastic. Some stains to the text block. More
Louisiana State Univ Pr, April 1975. Hardcover. Brown cloth. Front free endpaper discolored, perhaps from newsprint; else, a square, solid, very good copy with minimal shelfwear. More
Harcourt, November 1997. Trade Paperback. As we move toward the end of the century, Southern values have become American values. Southern politicians lead both political parties, and the South has powered the rightward shift in American politics over the course of the past three decades. The South is far and..... More
Arcadia Publishing, June 2005. Trade Paperback. McDowell County was established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1858, two years before the start of the American Civil War. In 1863, the county was one of the 55 that separated from the Old Dominion to form West Virginia, thus..... More
PublicAffairs, March 2015. Hardcover. In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia..... More
Simon & Schuster, April 1998. Trade Paperback. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, "Rising Tide" tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known-- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes..... More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, November 1970. Hardcover. Octavo. In mildly edgeworn DJ. Front flap clipped. Heavy foxing of jacket verso and darkened spine verso. White cloth covered boards with black lettering upon spine. Heavy foxing & darkening to boards. Crimson end pages. Previous owner's nameinked upper right corner of..... More
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, November 2016. Paper Back. From the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century juvenile reformatories served as citizen-building institutions and a political tool of state racism in post-emancipation America. New South advocates cemented their regional affiliation by using these reformatories to showcase mercies which were racialized..... More
Viking, March 2022. Hardcover. The untold story of the unlikely heroes, the cutthroat politics, and the cultural forces that turned a Deep South state purple--by a top reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Flipped is the definitive account of how the election of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff transformed Georgia..... More
Pantheon, 2015. First Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Rick Bragg at the Carter Library, September 28, 2015. A Cappella was the bookseller. More
Knopf, August 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "All Over but the Shoutin'" continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her. Charlie..... More
Knopf, August 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "All Over but the Shoutin'" continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her. Charlie..... More
Knopf, August 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "All Over but the Shoutin'" continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her. Charlie..... More
Oxmoor House, September 2015. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the celebrated bestselling author of All Over but the Shoutin' and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the south. Keenly observed and written with his insightful..... More
Knopf, May 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with "All Over but the Shoutin'" and continued with "Ava's Man, " Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship..... More
Vintage, April 2009. Trade Paperback. In the final volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winner's bestselling and beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin' and continued with Ava's Man, this evocative family memoir" (Boston Globe) delivers an unforgettable rumination about fathers and sons. Bragg documents a mesmerizing journey..... More
Beehive Press, January 1973. Reprint. Cassette. 2nd edition. Octavo. In heavily edgeworn dustjacket especially across top with darkening to margins. Darkened/sunned jacket spine. Red cloth covered boards with silver lettering. Moderately cocked spine. Grey end pages. Previous owner name inked top right cover of FFEP. Tight binding. Dust stained textblock..... More
Doubleday Anchor. January 1959. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. 'A Doubleday Anchor Original' First edition. Mild user wear. Slightly dust stained textblock edges. Internal pages without underlining, side notes or writing. 432 pages. More
The Easton Press, January 1982. Leather. Signed by Jimmy Carter on bound in page. Octavo in green leather with gold decorative cover and gold lettering along spine. Gold textblock edges. Silk ribbon marker. Easton Press Ex Libris unused with 'Strip-Tac' adhesive intact. and 8-page pamphlet with cardstock cover. Both laid..... More
Doubleday, January 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. Wilbur J. Cash (1901 - 1941) was a journalist who wrote & published one book and a few months after its publication in 1941 he died. Sun-bleached spine an cover edges. Creasing.of spine. Binding is ever so slightly askew with cover glue pulling away..... More
LSU Press, September 2006. Paper Back. A criminal lawyer and popular journalist, Henry C. Castellanos lived nearly three-quarters of the nineteenth century in New Orleans. In his later years, between 1892 and 1895, he wrote more than 120 articles for the Times-Democrat on the history and mores of his beloved..... More
Doubleday, January 1975. First Edition. Cloth. In dust jacket. Signed 'Best wishes Celestine Sibley' on f.f.e.p. Also previous owner's gift inscription inked same page. More
