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

Longstreet Press, May 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. For visitors and recent arrivals, Atlanta Rising, will serve as the essential primer on the ins and outs of the South's capital city. For natives, the book offers up a rich menu of surprising new facts and fresh insights about their own hometown..... More

simon & schuster, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. Well worn boards in chipped/tanned jacket. Signed by Allen on front free end page. 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

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

Pantheon, 2015. First Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Rick Bragg at the Carter Library, September 28, 2015. A Cappella was the bookseller. 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

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, September 2021. Hardcover. From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warm hearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog. Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a...... More

Knopf, October 2020. Hardcover. From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin' and The Best Cook in the World, a collection of irresistible columns from Southern Living and Garden & Gun Celebrated author and newspaper columnist Rick Bragg brings us an ode to the stories and..... More

Beaver's Pond Press, January 2016. Oversized Hardcover. Through stunning portraiture and intimate conversations, Brent Walker takes the reader on a journey across the Southeast United States, uncovering stories of heartbreak, addiction, and hope. DESCRIPTION ''The Hidden South--Come Home'' is the first book by Atlanta-based photographer and storyteller Brent..... More

Island Press, August 2000. Trade Paperback. A serious but often overlooked impact of the random, unplanned growth commonly known as sprawl is its effect on economic and racial polarization. Sprawl-fueled growth pushes people further apart geographically, politically, economically, and socially. Atlanta, Georgia, one of the fastest-growing areas in the country..... More