His visit spurred him to write a revelatory book about the work of one of our greatest but still least-understood American writers.
Like the Mississippi itself, Immortal River often leaves the main channel to explore the river's backwaters, floodplain, and drainage basin. The book's focus is the Upper Mississippi, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois.
Hailed by none other than Larry McMurtry as “the best young writer to appear in the South since Flannery O’Connor,” Barry Hannah’s immense storytelling gifts are on striking display in this essential work. “Hannah takes fiction by ...
Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.
Sorensen also served as special counsel to the president. ... “The Man with a Plan: Theodore Bilbo's Adaptation of National Progressivism in Mississippi” (Ph.D. diss., University of Southern Mississippi, 2006), and Larry Thomas Balsamo, ...
The next day a cartoon by Clifford Berryman appeared in the Washington Post depicting Roosevelt's refusal and running the caption “Drawing the Line in Mississippi.” Its double meaning was not lost on anybody familiar with Roosevelt's ...
So much of the history and culture of the United States has revolved around the mighty Mississippi River. This addition to "New York Times"-bestselling series includes a detachable fold-out map. Illustrations. Consumable.
... 247 Johnson, William, 112 Johnston, Albert Sidney, and Battle of Shiloh, 134 Johnston, Erle, 280, 303 Johnston, Garvin, 330, 374–75 Johnston, Joseph E., 137, 139– 40, 146 Johnstone, George, 37–39 Joint Committee on Reconstruction, ...
The unforgettable memoir of a woman at the front lines of the civil rights movement--a harrowing account of black life in the rural South and a powerful affirmation of one...
And Daniel, Tim, and their families are swept up in a shocking chain of events. "There is nothing small about Childress's fine novel. It's big in all the ways that matter -- big in daring, big in insight, and big-hearted.