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Author Applebome, Peter.

Title Dixie rising : how the South is shaping American values, politics, and culture / Peter Applebome.

Publication Info. San Diego ; New York ; London : Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Harmon  973.929 Ap52d 1997    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition First Harvest edition.
Description xii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series A harvest book
Note Originally published: New York : Times Books, 1996.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-376) and index.
Contents The Southernization of America -- Cobb County, Georgia: Newtland -- Selma, Alabama : Crossing the bridge, calling the roll, keeping the faith, thirty years on -- Montgomery, Alabama : Wallace's revenge -- Columbia, South Carolina: Southern partisans, then and now -- Charlotte, North Carolina: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Jeb Stuart's Cavalry, Dot Counts's ordeal, and the mind of the New South -- Honea Path, South Carolina: The ghosts of the Chiquola Mill -- Wilmington, North Carolina: Back to the future at Williston High -- Nashville, Tennessee: How Bud, Garth, Tim, and the Renfro Valley home folks took over America -- Mississippi I : Highway 61 revisited -- Mississippi II : In the electric casinos with the Confederate dead -- From Moreland to Atlanta: Visions of the South from Tobacco Road to the Sad Ballad of Lewis Grizzard.
Summary Vivid reportage about why the South is increasingly dominating American life in public and private.
Subject Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Southern States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term Since 1900
ISBN 0156005506
9780156005500

 
    
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