University Alabama Press, September 2011. Hardcover. This historical memoir by the widely recognized scholar, Wayne Flynt, chronicles the inner workings of his academic career at Samford and Auburn Universities, as well as his many contributions to the general history of Alabama. Flynt has traveled the state and the South lecturing..... More
Princeton University Press, June 1969. Hardcover. The description for this book, Populism to Progressivism in Alabama, will be forthcoming. Previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper and front of jacket. Pages toned and foxed, especially on edges. Jacket clipped; else, a very good copy in jacket. 390 pgs... More
Oxford University Press, USA, November 1993. Paper Back. At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through..... More
Mercer University Press, November 1998. Hardcover. Ralph McGill's life and work (1898-1969) show how an individual becomes committed to the cause of civil rights and social justice. In Vienna in 1938, while still a sportswriter, McGill felt a "calling" to fight intolerance, hatred, and racial prejudice. He assumed his eventual..... More
Atria Books, February 2022. Paper Back. Featuring a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic racism, from one of the leading Black public intellectuals of the 19th century, is as timely and radical today as it..... More
University of Georgia Press, April 1995. Trade Paperback. Portraying a region steeped religious piety and ritual, excess and prejudice, Deep South is a product both of Erskine Caldwell the storyteller and Erskine Caldwell the minister's son. Reverend Ira Sylvester Caldwell's missionary work took him and his family deep into the..... More
Yoknapatawpha Press, March 1982. Trade Paperback. In the 1940s at his home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi, Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner told ghost stories to the children in his family. Faulkner's niece, Dean Faulkner Wells, has recounted the haunting and heartbreaking story of "Judith," the chilling tale of "The..... 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
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
Louisiana State University Press, August 1975. Trade Paperback. Eugene Talmadge's career as a politician lasted twenty years, and during that time he dominated Georgia's political structure as few men have in any state's history. The Wild Man from Sugar Creek is a fascinating biography of one of the South's most..... More
Scribner Book Company, March 1996. Trade Paperback. Cross Creek is the warm and delightful memoir about the life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings--author of The Yearling--in the Florida backcountry. Originally published in 1942, Cross Creek has become a classic in modern American literature. For the millions of readers raised on The..... More
University of Georgia Press, March 1981. Soft Cover. Depicts what life was like on Georgia's Okefinokee Swamp, and includes, photographs, anecdotes, folk tales, and descriptions of local customs. More
Cherokee Publishing Company (GA), May 1989. Trade Paperback. Signed and dedicated by the author on the half title page. More
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, October 1991. Hardcover. A narrative of the events of 1978 in McIntosh County, Georgia, when the first black man was elected as a county commissioner. More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 1994. Trade Paperback. Published to wide controversy, it became the source (acknowledged or unacknowledged) of much of our thinking about race relations and was for many a catalyst for the civil rights movement. It remains the most courageous, insightful, and eloquent critique of the..... More
University Alabama Press, June 2021. Hardcover. How southern universities continue to wrestle with the words and symbols that embody and perpetuate Old South traditions The US South is a rhetorical landscape that pulsates with division, a place where words and symbols rooted in a deeply problematic past litter the ground..... More
Cherokee Publishing Company (GA), August 1980. Trade Paperback. More
Knopf, June 2001. Hardcover. 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
The University of North Carolina Press, July 1989. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. The American South is a geographical entity, a historical fact, a place in the imagination, and the homeland of an array of Americans who consider themselves southerners. The region is often shrouded in romance and myth, but its..... More
Delta, March 2002. Trade Paperback. With his sharp eye and gentle wit, Noah Adams doesn't just tell stories, he lets them unfold quietly, powerfully, and eloquently. Now the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered and bestselling author of Piano Lessons takes us on a river journey through the heart..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, August 2013. Hardcover. The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C...... More
Milkweed Editions, September 1999. Hardcover. Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent..... 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
The Easton Press, January 1982. Leather. 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 in, as new. Tight binding. Signed by Carter..... More
