Crown, December 2023. Hardcover. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the Civil War, and how they were scrubbed from the history books. "It is my sincere hope that this compelling and submerged history is integrated into..... More
University Press of Mississippi, November 1999. Reprint. Cloth. Willie Morris always wrote from the heart and with a generosity of spirit. His first book, North Toward Home, was published to extraordinary acclaim in 1967. It was to be his signature work, a memoir on which all his other books would..... More
Horse & Buggy Press, 2023. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. More
Random House Value Publishing, July 1988. Hardcover. Gilt-titled blue leatherette binding with color cover label. Covers a bit rubbed; front free endpaper wrinkled; half-title page torn; pages toned. Still, a solid copy. More
The University of North Carolina Press, September 2023. Hardcover. For anyone who's ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and how it changed the South and the nation. Showing how southerners..... More
Stevenson and Evans, 1856. First Edition. Cloth. {5'x 7 &3/4'} Brown, decorative blindstamped cloth with gilt titles on spine. Heavy wear along board edges. Corners bumped and a bit rounded and bruise with interior cardstock exposed, Frayed at head & base of spine. One inch split starting at top of..... More
University of Illinois Press, May 1982. Trade Paperback. Winner of the W. D. Weatherford Award of the Appalachian Society, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the APSA, Lillian Smith Award of the Southern Regional Council, V.O. Key Award of the Southern PSA, and the Governor's Award from the Kentucky Historical..... More
Doubleday, June 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. [Octavo in jacket with tanning & marginal foxing & sun lightened spine. Burgundy cloth covered spine with gold lettering along spine edge. Off white paper covered boards with embedded fibers. Celestine Sibley's signature in ink front free end page. Also on same page a...... More
Milkweed Editions, September 1999. First Edition. 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...... More
Brandeis University Press, November 2006. First Edition. Cloth. Jews have long been a presence in the American South, first arriving in the late seventeenth century as part of exploratory voyages from Europe to the New World. Two of the nation's earliest Jewish communities were founded in Savannah in 1733 and..... More
Little, Brown and Company, November 2023. Hardcover. In this "courageous and compelling ... essential and critically important" book (Bryan Stevenson), an award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff--a cold..... 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
Waveland Pr Inc, January 1992. Paper Back. More
Knopf, May 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside Hook New York Times Best Seller "Compelling . . . at once a true-crime..... More
Griffin, January 2022. Paper Back. "Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron Chernow In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths..... More
Yoknapatawpha Press, October 1981. Soft Cover. In this collection of essays Willie Morris explores the subject of "home" and what it means to Americans. Morris takes the reader on a chronological journey of places he lived and worked: as a student at the University of Texas in Austin, as Rhodes..... More
Anchor/ Doubleday, May 1973. Reprint. Soft Cover. First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, March 1993. Trade Paperback. The unreconstructed people-hater offers her piece de resistance: a guided tour of the misanthropic life, and an inspirational handbook for Americans grown tired of goo-goo humanitarianism and sensitivity that never sleeps. The only trouble with this book is that its covers are too..... 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
Anchor/ Doubleday, May 1973. Soft Cover. First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum..... More
Convergent Books, September 2023. Hardcover. From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for home and hope "A riveting book that invites you into the personal journey of one of the finest writers alive today."--Beth..... 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
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2023. Paper Back. If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law? In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era..... More
Pelican, May 1987. Trade Paperback. Garlic hangs from the rafters. The Loup Garou holds a convention on Bayou Goula. Spiders dwell in haunted houses. Images of St. Rosalia are carried from church to church. King Zulu parades on Mardi Gras day. More
St. Martin's Griffin, August 2010. Trade Paperback. A story that garnered national attention, this is the harrowing tale of two men who suffered abuses at a reform school in Florida in the 1950s and 60s, and who banded together fifty years later to confront their attackers. Michael O'McCarthy and Robert..... More
