Lawrence Goodwyn - The Populist Moment
C Vann Woodward - Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel
Robert Wiebe - The Search for Order 1877 - 1920
Gavin Wright - Old South, New South
We killed a homeless man on this bench. Me and Dru. Those were good times. You know, he begged for mercy, and you know, that only made her bite harder.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:02:01 am PDT #8558 of 28706
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:04:16 am PDT #8559 of 28706
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Carter Woodson - The Mis-Education of the Negro
Frederick Douglass - My Bondage and My Freedom
Stanley Elkins - Slavery
Rick Perlstein - Nixonland (esp for the sections about George Wallace)
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:06:38 am PDT #8560 of 28706
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Fiction:
Faulkner - Absolam! Absolam! and As I Lay Dying
Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood
Larry Brown - Big Bad Love
Barry Hannah - Airships
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:07:23 am PDT #8561 of 28706
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
It's like I've been waiting for years for someone to ask about this!
lisah - Mar 10, 2009 9:14:20 am PDT #8562 of 28706
Punishingly Intricate
It's like I've been waiting for years for someone to ask about this!
hah! You are on it! All I could think of were these collections of stories we read for my southern lit class in grad school: Stories of the Old South and Stories of the New South. There was great stuff in both of them.
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:16:50 am PDT #8563 of 28706
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Fogel & Engermann's Time On The Cross is a hideous book that someone might recommend to you. I think you should read it, knowing that it's an abomination of history.
Thomas Dixon's The Clansman is the work of fiction that Birth of a Nation was based on.
Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is another work of fiction, but the details are rather eye-opening.
Cormac McCarthy's early work Child of God is a great slice of Southern Gothic.
Sorry, more nonfiction:
Eric Foner's Reconstruction
David Halberstam's The Children (which is the finest book he ever wrote)
Sara Evans - Personal Politics, which is about the way that feminism was changed by the civil rights movement
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:18:41 am PDT #8564 of 28706
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
There was great stuff in both of them.
I have a few of those collections! And I agree.
lisah - Mar 10, 2009 9:27:14 am PDT #8565 of 28706
Punishingly Intricate
Cormac McCarthy's early work Child of God is a great slice of Southern Gothic.
Oh yeah. As is Outer Dark .
Toddson - Mar 10, 2009 9:32:20 am PDT #8566 of 28706
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Cavalier and Yankee by William R. Taylor
Pix - Mar 10, 2009 9:56:02 am PDT #8567 of 28706
The status is NOT quo.
William R. Taylor
Okay, that's creepy. That's my dad's name, middle initial and all. And though he is a published author (a filmography of Sydney Pollack published in the late 70s), that is definitely not his book. I guess it's not an unusual name, but it still made me look twice.