Random House, April 1995. Hardcover. Now a major motion picture form Warner Brothers, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and "Eddie" from the TV show Frasier (as Skip), and produced by Mark Johnson (Rain Man). In 1943 in a sleepy town on the banks of the Yazoo..... More
Rizzoli International Publications, March 2010. Hardcover. An exquisitely photographed collection of the great houses and mansions of the South. In the tradition of Rizzoli's Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley and Great Houses of New England, Great Houses of the South features a stunning array of newly photographed homes that..... More
Vintage, March 1999. Trade Paperback. Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause..... More
Da Capo Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, January 2023. Hardcover. How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life--a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in national and global contexts, celebrated historian Charles Reagan Wilson assesses how..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, May 2023. Hardcover. The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region's impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore, who uses the histories of five..... More
Algonquin Books, April 2015. Hardcover. "White people declared that the South would rise again. Black people raised one fist and chanted for black power. Somehow we negotiated a space between those poles and learned to sit in classrooms together . . . Lawyers, judges, adults declared that the days of..... More
Louisiana State University Press, January 1950. Cloth. Octavo without dustjacket. Sun bleached spine, that is also spotted, stained with ink writing. Front and rear boards are light blue cloth covered and likewise washed out and discolored. Edgeworn at bottom and top with frayed cloth edges. Front pastedown has previous owner's..... More
skirt! July 2008. First Edition. Cloth. Once upon a time, Hollis Gillespie was ashamed about having a hard-drinking, trailer-salesman dad and a missile-making mom with broken dreams of being a beautician. That was then. This is now. Trailer Trashed is a hilarious and heartbreaking collection of essays on one broad..... More
Random House, January 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares..... More
NewSouth Books, April 2023. Hardcover. Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the North Alabama political firebrand became known across the region for his right-wing..... More
Bobbs-Merrill, 1941. Cloth. Quarto. {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 3/4'} In torn & tattered DJ with large chunk ripped from top of front & rear jacket plates. Also enormous damp stained mass front and rear of spine recto & verso. Tanned/dust stained end papers front & rear with previous..... More
Putnam, January 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing w/ no subsequent printings stated; Tight binding, gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy coth-covered boards w/ inset flag at front, gilt text at spine; Boards gently edge-worn with mild discoloration/rubbing present; Previous owner name present at front free-end page; Text free of..... More
Mountain Arbor Press, November 2017. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; Signed by the authors at title page; An excellent copy. More
University of Georgia Press, February 2014. Paper Back. Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives..... More
Butternut & Blue, January 1997. Hardcover. As new, sealed in publisher's shrink wrap. More
University Of Chicago Press, 1921. First Edition. Cloth. {6' x * & 3/4'} Navy blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Dustjacket is missing. Mild edgewear to boards. Newspaper clipping about this book is affixed to front pastedown. Tanning transfered from Newspaper clipping on ffep opposite said clipping..... More
Harper Wave, October 2017. Hardcover. More
Viking, March 2022. First Edition. 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..... More
Riverhead Hardcover, November 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson, for fans of "Serial." A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black..... More
Knopf, April 2023. Hardcover. The story of the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable, young United States for control over the Deep South--from the acclaimed historian and prize-winning author of The Earth is Weeping The Creek War is one of the most tragic episodes in American history..... More
University Press of Mississippi, April 2022. Hardcover. In the late 1960s, Patsy Channing, a stunningly beautiful young woman, was suspended from the venerable Mississippi State College for Women for breach of conduct. The resulting scandal reached all the way to the Columbus courthouse, and the press ate it up. But..... More
Princeton University Press, January 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In heavily edgeworn and torn jacket with clear tape 'repairs'. Darkened at folds and margins. Flap is not clipped. Orange cloth covered front and rear board with silver and black cloth spine. Foxing/tanning to end pages. [561 pages]. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1992. Trade Paperback. The year is 1942 and Porter Osborne, Jr., is safely ensconced in medical school. He is physically safe, although taunted by the beckoning finger of Uncle Sam. Haunted by the family motto, "Remember who you are, " Porter wrestles with a flood of conflicting..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), July 1984. Trade Paperback. Porter Osborne Jr. is a precocious, sensitive, and rambunctious boy trying to make it through adolescence during the depression years. On a red-clay farm in Georgia he learns all there is to know about cotton chopping, hog killing, watermelon thumping, and mule handling. School..... More
