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9780684818931

South A Two-Step Odyssey on the Backroads of the Enchanted Land

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    9780684818931

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    0684818930

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-07-10
  • Publisher: Touchstone
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Summary

An anecdotal, rollicking tour through America's most colorful region.From the Tidewater through Appalachia, down the Blue Ridge country and into the sunbelt, B.C. Hall and C.T. Wood take us through the American South, inviting us to listen to its music -- blues, country, gospel, and rock -- and to the voices that have shaped its extraordinary, distinctive literature. Interweaving interviews with people both ordinary and famous with thought-provoking reflections on Southern life, history, politics, humor, religion, and cultural icons,The Southis a matchless, impressionistic portrait of a people and a place.

Author Biography

B.C. Hall and C.T. Wood are the coauthors of Big Muddy. Hall is also the author of a novel, The Burning Season, and Judgment Day, for which he received an Edgar Allan Poe Special Nonfiction Award. He teaches English and American Studies at Arkansas Tech University. Wood, an economist and consultant, lives and writes in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Gateways to the Southp. 12
"Stones Cut by Saxon, Bricks Made by Roman Hands"p. 17
Ancien Regimep. 19
Tidewater Virginia
Walter Raleigh and Jamestown
Nat Turner's Rebellion
The Cotton Kingdom
Maryland and the Chesapeake
Lost Causes, Old and Newp. 49
Mason and Dixon's Line
Monticello
John Brown and Harper's Ferry
Woodrow Wilson and the Savage Ideal
VMI
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson
The Cumberland Gap
A Cosmic Conspiracyp. 75
New Magic in a Dusty Worldp. 77
North Carolina's Triad
Daniel Boone
Biltmore and the Vanderbilts
Thomas Wolfe
John C. Calhoun and Jesse Helms
Junior Johnson and NASCAR
Tobacco Road
The Grandees of God's Little Acresp. 105
South Carolina and Georgia
Southern Language
Blood Sport and Cockfights
Charleston and The Citadel
James Oglethorpe and Jimmy Carter
Augusta National Country Club
Erskine Caldwell
"Just an Old Sweet Song"p. 133
Atlanta
Henry Grady
The Cathedral of the Holy Spirit
W. E. B. Du Bois
Macon and Southern Rock 'n' Roll
Andersonville
The Buckle of the Bible Beltp. 157
"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"p. 159
Alabama and Mississippi
Redneck Aristocrats, Good Old Boys, and Mean Sumbitches
Ralph Ellison
The Tuskegee Experiment
Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Belle
James Agee
Elvis
Why We All Live at the P.O.p. 188
Mississippi and Western Tennessee
Faulkner and His Heirs
The National Tobacco Spitting Contest
Eudora Welty
Robert Johnson and the Delta Blues
Memphis
B. B. King and Beale Street
The High-Toned Old Christian Woman Weds the Horse Traderp. 213
Eastern Tennessee
The Southern Baptist Convention
David Lilienthal and the TVA
The Scopes Trial
Music City, USA
Tom T. Hall
Brother Will D. Campbell
Outlandersp. 237
Kentucky and West Virginia
Tobacco Auctions and Bourbon Whiskey
Louisville and Lexington
Woody Stephens and Churchill Downs
Mother Jones
Appalachia
Snake Handling and Glossolalia
The Latter-Day Phoeniciansp. 263
Arkansas and Missouri
Uncle Witt Stephens and the Merchant Princes
Little Rock
Clinton
Augustus Hill Garland
The Capo of Hot Springs
Branson and the Ozarks
Cole Younger's Descendants
Little Dixiep. 293
Oklahoma and Texas
The Trail of Tears
Dee Brown
Dallas
Pappy Joiner and the Spindletop Field
Joe Don Looney
The Graecia Maximap. 321
The Saltwater Wayp. 323
The Gulf Coast
Brownsville
The Alamo
The Rapido River Affair
Zydeco
New Orleans
The Kingfish
The Sunbelt Southp. 350
The Redneck Riviera
Mobile Bay
The Mother Teresa of Cervantes Street
Pensacola and Tallahassee
The Everglades
Henry Flagler and the Gold Coast
The Keys
Background Sourcesp. 373
Indexp. 381
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