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The Literary Legacy of Jimmy Carter

Essays on the President's Books

Edited by Frye Gaillard, Dr. Mark I. West ...

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 reflect on this substantial – and to some, unexpected – dimension of Carter's legacy. Collectively, ... Read more

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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 reflect on this substantial – and to some, unexpected – dimension of Carter's legacy. Collectively,
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Heroes and Other Mortals

Stories of Our Better Angels

by Frye Gaillard ...

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 human condition.By blending interviews and stories of well-known figures like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, ... Read more

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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 human condition.By blending interviews and stories of well-known figures like Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
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Southern Footprints

Exploring Gulf Coast Archaeology

by Gregory A. Waselkov, Philip J. Carr ...

Unearthing the Gulf Coast’s past—one footprint at a time.Southern Footprints celebrates more than fifty years of archaeological research along the Gulf Coast by the University of South Alabama and the Center for Archaeological Studies. Archaeologists Gregory A. Waselkov and Philip J. Carr, the former and current directors of the center, present the “greatest hits” that have transformed knowledge ... Read more

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Unearthing the Gulf Coast’s past—one footprint at a time.Southern Footprints celebrates more than fifty years of archaeological research along the Gulf Coast by the University of South Alabama and the Center for Archaeological Studies. Archaeologists Gregory A. Waselkov and Philip J. Carr, the former and current directors of the center, present the “greatest hits” that have transformed knowledge
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The Dream Long Deferred

The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina

by Frye Gaillard ...

A fifty-year history of one community's battles with race in public educationThe 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, who covered school integration for the Charlotte Observer, updates his earlier 1988 and 1999 editions of ... Read more

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A fifty-year history of one community's battles with race in public educationThe 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, who covered school integration for the Charlotte Observer, updates his earlier 1988 and 1999 editions of
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A Word on Words

The Best of John Seigenthaler's Interviews

by Arna Bontemps, Marshall Chapman, Pat Conroy, Rodney Crowell, John Egerton, Jesse Hill Ford, Charles Fountain, William Price Fox, Kinky Friedman, Nikki Giovanni, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Halberstam, Waylon Jennings, John Lewis, David Maraniss, William Marshall, Jon Meacham, Ann Patchett, Alice Randall, Dori Sanders, John Michael Seigenthaler, Marty Stuart ...

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 writers who appeared on his show and gave a glimpse into their creative processes. Seigenthaler was a ... Read more

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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 writers who appeared on his show and gave a glimpse into their creative processes. Seigenthaler was a
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Live As If

A teacher's love story

by Frye Gaillard ...

In the most deeply personal writing of his long career, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the life and work of his wife Nancy, who died of leukemia in 2018. Partly the memoir of a vibrant marriage, Live As If... tells the story of Nancy's work as a public school teacher, principal, and professor during a time of education under siege. "It's a story of what can go right," Gaillard says ... Read more

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In the most deeply personal writing of his long career, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the life and work of his wife Nancy, who died of leukemia in 2018. Partly the memoir of a vibrant marriage, Live As If... tells the story of Nancy's work as a public school teacher, principal, and professor during a time of education under siege. "It's a story of what can go right," Gaillard says
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Prophet from Plains

Jimmy Carter and His Legacy

by Frye Gaillard ...

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 redefined the role for all who follow him.Frye Gaillard, who wrote extensively about Carter at the ... Read more

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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 redefined the role for all who follow him.Frye Gaillard, who wrote extensively about Carter at the
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Alabama's Civil Rights Trail

An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom

by Frye Gaillard ...

Series series Alabama: The Forge of History
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 monumentsNo other state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more thoroughly than Alabama. Nor is there a place where that history is richer. Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail tells of Alabama’s great civil rights events, as well as its ... Read more

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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 monumentsNo other state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more thoroughly than Alabama. Nor is there a place where that history is richer. Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail tells of Alabama’s great civil rights events, as well as its
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Cradle of Freedom

Alabama and the Movement That Changed America

by Frye Gaillard ...

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 in history, the burden of the movement was not carried by them alone. It was fueled by the commitment ... Read more

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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 in history, the burden of the movement was not carried by them alone. It was fueled by the commitment
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The Remembered Gate

Memoirs by Alabama Writers

by Mary Ward Brown, Patricia Foster, Frye Gaillard, Robert Inman, C. Eric Lincoln, James Haskins, Wayne Greenhaw, Andrew Hudgins, Rodney Jones, Phyllis Alesia Perry, William Cobb, Sena Jeter Naslund, Charles Gaines, Albert Murray, Fannie Flagg, Mark Kennedy, Andrew Glaze, Helen Bell Norris, Ms. Nanci Kincaid ...

Series series Deep South Books
Showcases nineteen nationally known writers who have roots in AlabamaIn The Remembered Gate, nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists, and poets recall how their formative years in Alabama shaped them as people and as writers. The essays range in tone from the pained and sorrowful to the wistful and playful, in class from the privileged to the poverty-stricken, in geography from the rural ... Read more

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Showcases nineteen nationally known writers who have roots in AlabamaIn The Remembered Gate, nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists, and poets recall how their formative years in Alabama shaped them as people and as writers. The essays range in tone from the pained and sorrowful to the wistful and playful, in class from the privileged to the poverty-stricken, in geography from the rural
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In the Path of the Storms

Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast

by Frye Gaillard, Sheila Hagler, Peggy Denniston ...

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 down over time— that providing for the needs of one’s family is the only true measure of success. But ... Read more

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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 down over time— that providing for the needs of one’s family is the only true measure of success. But
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The Southernization of America

A Story of Democracy in the Balance

by Frye Gaillard, Cynthia Tucker ...

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect on the role of the South in America's long descent into Trumpism. In 1974, Southern author John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie, reflecting on the double-edged reality of the South becoming more like the rest of the country and vice versa. Tucker and Gaillard dive deeper into that ... Read more

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect on the role of the South in America's long descent into Trumpism. In 1974, Southern author John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie, reflecting on the double-edged reality of the South becoming more like the rest of the country and vice versa. Tucker and Gaillard dive deeper into that
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