Ecco, January 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South--and thus of America--by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration."..... More
Hachette Books, August 2017. Paper Back. Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography. In turbulent times Americans look to the Civil Rights Movement as the apotheosis of political expression. As we confront a startling rise in racism and hate speech and remain a culture scarred by social..... More
Mercer University Press, October 2016. Hardcover. More
The University of Georgia Press, January 1982. Cloth. Bound in burgundy cloth with gold lettering along the spine. Endpapers are map pages. Light foxing on the verso of the jacket. Book has foxing and dust staining on edges of the print block and the endpapers. More
Ballantine Books, May 1997. Trade Paperback. THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF A BRUTAL ACT OF HATE "At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, Oct. 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast--but..... More
Arcadia Publishing, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Oakdale Cotton Mills, in continuous operation in rural Jamestown since 1865, began as Logan Manufacturing Company immediately after the Civil War. Its primary backer, Cyrus P. Mendenhall, was a descendant of Jamestown's early Quaker settler James Mendenhall. In the late 1880s, the mill's ownership..... More
Arcadia Publishing, April 2009. Trade Paperback. Long before Glenn Miller made the world-famous Chattanooga Choo Choo an American icon, Chattanooga was already a bustling railroad community. By the beginning of the 20th century, passenger trains overwhelmed Chattanooga's two railroad depots and a larger station was needed. The solution was Terminal..... More
Peachtree Publishers, August 1982. Hardcover. A boy's account of growing up through the rituals of life on an ancestral farm in middle Georgia between the big wars. It is a rueful, humorous story of the people in one rural county, but the telling cuts so deep it breaks through to..... More
Arcadia Publishing, May 2009. Soft Cover. Buckhead, a community four miles from downtown Atlanta, began approximately 6,000 years ago when the Paleo-Indians lived along the Chattahoochee River. By the mid-1700s, the Muscogee (Creek) Indians lived there in the village of Standing Peach Tree. They ceded a major portion of their..... More
Longstreet Press, October 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. {7' x 9 & 1/2'} First/first. In edgeworn dustjacket. Front flap is clipped. Tan cloth spine with gold lettering alongs spine. Forest green textured paper covered boards. [160 pages]. More
Louisiana State University Press, January 1983. Cloth. Bound in heavy grey cloth. Minor chipping on the top edge of the jacket. More
N/A, November 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. In this sequel to Run with the Horsemen, the redoubtable Porter Osborne Jr., a little older and slightly more worldly, leaves the dusty security of his rural Georgia home for college. The year is 1938, but the story is timeless. Armed with the self-assurance..... More
Vintage, September 1998. Trade Paperback. When childhood is complicated by poverty and an abusive, alcoholic father, it vecomes focused on survival. Were it not for the dedication and strength of his mother, Rick Bragg may have never left northeast Alabama and become a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. His memoir captures the..... More
University of California Press, October 2022. Paper Back. An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality and racial division in Atlanta. Atlanta, the capital of the American South, is at the red-hot core of expansion, inequality, and political relevance. In recent decades, central Atlanta has experienced..... More
The History Press, February 2021. Paper Back. Old Atlanta may conjure images of southern belles and Civil War ruination, but the full story stretches back millennia, even before the first known residents arrived five thousand years ago. From centuries of Native American settlements that ended with the removal of the..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, June 2020. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Atlanta reveals theSouth's largest city through local stories, travel intel and modern lore, seeking out the real and rooted things, what's truly authentic and sharing the soul of a place, for travelers and locals alike. Explore this progressive Southern hub..... More
Random House, January 1994. 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. John Berendt's..... More
Palgrave Macmillan Trade, January 2016. Hardcover. **Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment** **A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017** After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity)..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket. Front flap clipped. Grey cloth covered boards faded across top edge. White & orage-red lettering along spine. Red end pages. Complete number line. Tightly bound. {255 pages]. More
Wildsam Field Guides, June 2020. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Atlanta reveals theSouth's largest city through local stories, travel intel and modern lore, seeking out the real and rooted things, what's truly authentic and sharing the soul of a place, for travelers and locals alike. Explore this progressive Southern hub..... More
Peachtree Pub Ltd, 1980. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with sunned spine. Lightly stained jacket. Off white cloth coveed boards with black lettering on spine and stamped black illustration on front board. Also some foxing and dust stains to boards.[181 pages]. More
Tennessee Historical Soc, January 1997. Hardcover. Starting high in the Georgia Blue Ridge near Rabun Gap, the Little Tennessee River cuts a tortuous northwestward path 134 miles through North Carolina into Tennessee. The valley carved by the river is particularly rich in human value and physical grandeur; its engrossing history..... More
Cherokee Publishing Company, 1970. Hardcover. Recounts the settlement of coastal Georgia, the development of the plantation aristocracy and the dreary days of War and Reconstruction. Chapter treatment given to: Guale, New Inverness, Frederica, The Revolution, Saint Simons Island, Sapelo, The Eden of Georgia, Wreck of the "Pulaski," Broughton: The Rice..... More
Appalachian Consortium Press, January 1980. Paper Back. More
Clark W. Medford, January 1961. Hardcover. Light toning; previous owner's inked name and stamp on front free endpaper. Minor wear to jacket. More
