Atlanta's living Legacy - A History of Grady Memorial Hospital and Its People
Kimbark Publishing, January 2012. Oversized Hardcover. More
Atlanta & The South
Aunt Arie: A Foxfire Portrait
The University of North Carolina Press, July 1992. Trade Paperback. Of all the people documented by the Foxfire students since 1966, none has been more appealing to readers than Arie Carpenter. For all those who have read and cherished the Foxfire books, here is a loving portrait of a fondly..... More
Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South
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
Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras And America's Creole Soul (The City in the Twenty-First Century)
University of Pennsylvania Press, February 2006. First Edition. Cloth. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea..... More
Landmarks of Tennessee History
Univ of Tennessee Pr, June 1965. Hardcover. Dust jacket has some shelf wear. but is wrapped in clear plastic. Some stains to the text block. More
The Wild Man from Sugar Creek: The Political Career of Eugene Talmadge
Louisiana State Univ Pr, April 1975. Hardcover. Brown cloth. Front free endpaper discolored, perhaps from newsprint; else, a square, solid, very good copy with minimal shelfwear. More
Dixie Rising : How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture
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
McDowell County (WV) (Images of America)
Arcadia Publishing, June 2005. Trade Paperback. McDowell County was established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1858, two years before the start of the American Civil War. In 1863, the county was one of the 55 that separated from the Old Dominion to form West Virginia, thus..... More
The Class of '65: A Student, A Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness
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
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
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
From Thurmond to Wallace: Political Tendencies in Gergia, 1948-1968
The Johns Hopkins University Press, November 1970. Hardcover. Octavo. In mildly edgeworn DJ. Front flap clipped. Heavy foxing of jacket verso and darkened spine verso. White cloth covered boards with black lettering upon spine. Heavy foxing & darkening to boards. Crimson end pages. Previous owner's nameinked upper right corner of..... More
Southern Mercy: Empire and American Civilization in Juvenile Reform, 1890-1944
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
Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power
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
One Voice: Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild and the Troubled South
Mercer University Press, June 1985. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper. Jacket sunned, chipped and scarred on spine. Book, clean, crisp, square. More
All Over But the Shoutin'
Pantheon, 2015. First Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Rick Bragg at the Carter Library, September 28, 2015. A Cappella was the bookseller. More
Ava's Man
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
Ava's Man
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
Ava's Man
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
My Southern Journey
Oxmoor House, September 2015. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the celebrated bestselling author of All Over but the Shoutin' and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the south. Keenly observed and written with his insightful..... More
The Prince of Frogtown
Knopf, May 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with "All Over but the Shoutin'" and continued with "Ava's Man, " Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship..... More
The Prince of Frogtown (Vintage)
Vintage, April 2009. Trade Paperback. In the final volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winner's bestselling and beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin' and continued with Ava's Man, this evocative family memoir" (Boston Globe) delivers an unforgettable rumination about fathers and sons. Bragg documents a mesmerizing journey..... More
Wildsam Field Guides: Atlanta (American City Guide Series)
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
Wildsam Field Guides: Atlanta (American City Guide Series)
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
East Atlanta (Images of America)
Arcadia Publishing, March 2014. Trade Paperback. Located only two miles from downtown Atlanta, East Atlanta has its own distinct history and identity. Over the decades, this area has impacted the development of Atlanta and the nation. The Battle of Atlanta, fought on East Atlanta ground in 1864, changed the course..... More
Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta
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
