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Presents the first biography of John Kennedy Toole, drawing on scores of interviews with contemporaries of the writer and acquaintances of his influencing... Læs mere
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An account of race relations, black response to white discrimination, and the black community behind the walls of segregation in a border town.... Læs mere
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Argues that writers like Cable, Twain, and Faulkner cannot be read exclusively within the context of a nationalistically... Læs mere
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In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates... Læs mere
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On April 22, 1896, Martin Begnaud was brutally murdered in his general store in Scott Station, Louisiana. By intertwining a suspenseful account of this... Læs mere
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Ted Tunnell's superbly researched biography of Marshall H. Twitchell is a major addition to Reconstruction literature. This first full-length study of Twitchell is edifying, entertaining, and cutting-edge scholarship.
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Though slavery was widespread and antislavery sentiment rare in Alabama, there emerged a small loyalist population, mostly in the... Læs mere
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The Civil War writings of G. Campbell Brown - cousin, stepson, and staff officer of famed Confederate General Richard S. Ewell -... Læs mere
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A riveting war epic of local scale and human dimensions. Taking its title from the cry raised in Williamsburg as the Federal army approached in... Læs mere
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On a pilgrimage to the Kingdom of Nepal, a group of American women trek into the Himalayas. Ava Leavell Haymon responds with language that strives to reconcile the... Læs mere
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In her enchanting poem sequence, Doris Davenport introduces readers to Soque Street and its “Affrilachian” residents. These African Americans inhabiting an Appalachian community in northeast Georgia live in a world where magic threads daily life and the living and dead commingle.
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