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37 produkter
Word on Words
The Best of John Seigenthaler's Interviews
Av Andrew Maraniss, Arna Bontemps m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
383 kr
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For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most interesting and most important writers of our time. These in-depth exchanges revealed much about the …
In the Path of the Storms
Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast
Av Frye Gaillard, Sheila Hagler m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
281 kr
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The Gulf Coast villages of Bayou La Batre and Coden are two of Alabama's most distinctive, with roots going back to the French settlements of the 18th century. For generations, the proud inhabitants of these communities have extracted their modest livings from the sea, sustained by a lesson handed …
Legacies of Slavery
Shared History and Family Conversations with Myra Davis-Branic, Frye Gaillard, and Kern Jackson
Häftad, 2027
267 kr
Kommande
In the Path of the Storms
Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast
Av Peggy Denniston, Sheila Hagler m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
544 kr
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The Gulf Coast villages of Bayou La Batre and Coden are two of Alabama’s most distinctive, with roots going back to the French settlements of the 18th century. For generations, the proud inhabitants of these communities have extracted their modest livings from the sea, sustained by a lesson handed …
Cradle of Freedom
Alabama and the Movement That Changed America
E-bok, 2015
497 kr
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Cradle of Freedom puts a human face on the story of the black American struggle for equality in Alabama during the 1960s. While exceptional leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, John Lewis, and others rose up from the ranks and carved their places …
Alabama's Civil Rights Trail
An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom
E-bok, 2015
440 kr
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Alabama’s great civil rights events in a compact and accessible narrative, paired with a practical guide to Alabama’s preserved civil rights sites and monuments No other state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more thoroughly than Alabama. Nor is there a place where that history …
Prophet from Plains
Jimmy Carter and His Legacy
Inbunden, 2007
2497 kr
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Prophet from Plains covers Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter's major achievements and setbacks in light of what has been at once his greatest asset and his greatest flaw: his stubborn, faith-driven integrity. Carter's remarkable postpresidency is still in the making; however, he has already …
Prophet from Plains
Jimmy Carter and His Legacy
Häftad, 2009
311 kr
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Prophet from Plains covers Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter's major achievements and setbacks in light of what has been at once his greatest asset and his greatest flaw: his stubborn, faith-driven integrity. Carter's remarkable postpresidency is still in the making; however, he has already …
Prophet from Plains
Jimmy Carter and His Legacy
E-bok, 2010
356 kr
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Prophet from Plains covers Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter's major achievements and setbacks in light of what has been at once his greatest asset and his greatest flaw: his stubborn, faith-driven integrity. Carter's remarkable postpresidency is still in the making; however, he has already …
Prophet from Plains
Jimmy Carter and His Legacy
E-bok, 2010
356 kr
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Prophet from Plains covers Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter's major achievements and setbacks in light of what has been at once his greatest asset and his greatest flaw: his stubborn, faith-driven integrity. Carter's remarkable postpresidency is still in the making; however, he has already …
With Music and Justice for All
Some Southerners and Their Passions
Inbunden, 2008
1188 kr
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With Music and Justice for All is a collection of Frye Gaillard's most compelling work, one writer's odyssey though a time and place. There are stories here of the civil rights movement, a moral, social and political upheaval that changed the South in so many ways. Gaillard has captured the essence …
Mobile and the Eastern Shore
Av Frye Gaillard, Nancy Gaillard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
314 kr
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Literary Legacy of Jimmy Carter
Essays on the President's Books
Av Mark I. West, Frye Gaillard
Inbunden, 2024
1353 kr
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Jimmy Carter’s expansive body of writing ranges across the genres of memoir, commentary, children’s literature, poetry, and a novel about the Revolutionary War. Editors Mark I. West and Frye Gaillard have assembled a group of award-winning journalists, poets, historians, and literary scholars to …
Literary Legacy of Jimmy Carter
Essays on the President's Books
Av Mark I. West, Frye Gaillard
E-bok, 2024
1649 kr
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Jimmy Carter''s expansive body of writing ranges across the genres of memoir, commentary, children''s literature, poetry, and a novel about the Revolutionary War. Editors Mark I. West and Frye Gaillard have assembled a group of award-winning journalists, poets, historians, and literary scholars to …
Dream Long Deferred
The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina
Inbunden, 2006
644 kr
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The Dream Long Deferred tells the fifty-year story of the landmark struggle for the desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the present state of the city's public school system. Gaillard, who covered school integration for the Charlotte Observer, updates his earlier 1988 and 1999 editions …
Watermelon Wine
The Spirit of Country Music
Häftad, 2004
250 kr
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Originally published 25 years ago, Watermelon Wine was praised for its honest, unsentimental examination of the compassion as well as the passion behind authentic country music. Author Frye Gaillard looked at the commercialization of the Grand Ole Opry; the tradition-minded rebels such as Hank …
Books That Mattered, The
A Reader’s Memoir
Inbunden, 2012
643 kr
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Frye Gaillard’s first encounters with books were disappointing. As a child he never cared much for fairy tales – “stories of cannibalism and mayhem in which giants and witches, tigers and wolves did their best to eat small children.” But at the age of nine, he discovered Johnny Tremain, a …
Journey to the Wilderness
War, Memory, and a Southern Family's Civil War Letters
Inbunden, 2015
525 kr
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On the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the war—and the way we remember it—through letters written by his family, including his great-great grandfather and his two sons, both of whom were Confederate officers. As Gaillard explains in …
Go South to Freedom
Inbunden, 2016
277 kr
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Finalist for the 2016 Foreword Indies Best Book Award — Juvenile FictionWinner of the Jefferson Cup Honor Book AwardFinalist for the Housatonic Book AwardMore than twenty years ago, Robert Croshon, an elderly friend of Frye Gaillard's, told him the story of Croshon's ancestor, Gilbert Fields, an …
Hard Rain
America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
Inbunden, 2018
434 kr
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“There are many different ways to remember the sixties,” Frye Gaillard writes, “and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced march, and the changes spread to every corner of our lives. As future generations debate the meaning of …
Slave Who Went to Congress
Av Frye Gaillard, Marti Rosner
Inbunden, 2020
287 kr
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In 1870 Benjamin Turner, who spent the first 40 years of his life as a slave, was elected to the U.S. Congress. He was the first African American from Alabama to earn that distinction. In a recreation of Turner's own words, based on speeches and other writings that Turner left behind, co-authors …
Lessons from the Big House
One Family’s Passage Through the History of the South
Häftad, 2021
264 kr
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Beginning in the South Carolina Low Country with his Huguenot ancestors who fled religious persecution in Europe, journalist-historian Frye Gaillard traces his family through the troubled, oppressive history of the South. Gaillard, who came of age during the civil rights years, shares the painful …
Hard Rain
America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
Häftad, 2023
366 kr
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“There are many different ways to remember the sixties,” Frye Gaillard writes, “and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced march, and the changes spread to every corner of our lives. As future generations debate the meaning of …
Heroes and Other Mortals
Stories of Our Better Angels
Häftad, 2025
368 kr
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Frye Gaillard did not set out to write this book. One day as he was thumbing through a cardboard box of his essays, columns, and profiles, he simply realized that he had done it. Each article told the story of a person standing against social injustice or exploring the pain and ambiguity of the …
Heroes and Other Mortals
Stories of Our Better Angels
E-bok, 2025
479 kr
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Frye Gaillard did not set out to write this book. One day as he was thumbing through a cardboard box of his essays, columns, and profiles, he simply realized that he had done it. Each article told the story of a person standing against social injustice or exploring the pain and ambiguity of the …
Heroes and Other Mortals
Stories of Our Better Angels
E-bok, 2025
464 kr
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Frye Gaillard did not set out to write this book. One day as he was thumbing through a cardboard box of his essays, columns, and profiles, he simply realized that he had done it. Each article told the story of a person standing against social injustice or exploring the pain and ambiguity of the …
Southernization of America
A Story of Democracy in the Balance
Av Frye Gaillard, Cynthia Tucker
Häftad, 2025
250 kr
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Pulitzer Prize winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect in a powerful series of essays on the role of the South in America’s long descent into its present political predicament. In 1974 the great Southern author John Egerton published his pioneering work, The …
Quilt, The
And the Poetry of Alabama Music
Av Frye Gaillard, Kathryn Scheldt
Häftad, 2015
342 kr
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With a combination of song lyrics and reflective essays, Alabama author Frye Gaillard and recording artist Kathryn Scheldt pay tribute to the literary legacy of Alabama songwriters. Included here are reflections on the works of Hank Williams, Emmylou Harris, and W. C. Handy, among many others. …
Dream Long Deferred
The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina
E-bok, 2022
429 kr
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A fifty-year history of one community''s battles with race in public education The Dream Long Deferred tells the fifty-year story of the landmark struggle for desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the present state of the city''s public school system. Award-winning writer Frye Gaillard, …
