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Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Mississippi |
ISBN | : 9781617034398 |
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A father and son present an eloquent portrait and personal evocations of modern Mississippi in this book which contemplates the realities of the present day, assesses the most vital concerns of the citizens, gauges how the state has changed, and beholds what the state is like as it enters the 21st century. 105 full-color photos.
Author | : Norma Watkins |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2011-05-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1604739789 |
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Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself failing at the ideal of becoming a southern lady. The Last Resort, her compelling memoir, begins in childhood at Allison's Wells, a popular Mississippi spa for proper white people, run by her aunt. Life at the rambling hotel seems like paradise. Yet young Norma wonders at a caste system that has colored people cooking every meal while forbidding their sitting with whites to eat. Once integration is court-mandated, her beloved father becomes a stalwart captain in defense of Jim Crow as a counselor to fiery, segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. His daughter flounders, looking for escape. A fine house, wonderful children, and a successful husband do not compensate for the shock of Mississippi's brutal response to change, daily made manifest by the men in her home. A sexually bleak marriage only emphasizes a growing emotional emptiness. When a civil rights lawyer offers love and escape, does a good southern lady dare leave her home state and closed society behind? With humor and heartbreak, The Last Resort conveys at once the idyllic charm and the impossible compromises of a lost way of life.
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Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780395273999 |
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Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.
Author | : David Crews |
Publisher | : Nautilus |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2022-03-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781949455304 |
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Author | : Carole Marsh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Mississippi |
ISBN | : |
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A collection of facts, questions and activities for learning about Mississippi.
Author | : Patricia Neely-Dorsey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2019-02-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781733675413 |
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EXPANDED SCHOOL EDITION 10 ADDITIONAL LOCATION ILLUSTRATIONS MORE EXTENSIVE STUDY GUIDE/LESSON PLAN SECTION Expanded Edition is an EXCELLENT EDUCATIONAL TOOL AND FUN LITERARY TOUR GUIDE FILLED WITH INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT MISSISSIPPI.
Author | : Carole Marsh |
Publisher | : Gallopade International |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0635086751 |
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A collection of facts, questions and activities for learning about Mississippi.
Author | : Mike Freedman |
Publisher | : Hogarth |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-07-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525573801 |
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A biting, hilarious literary satire of war, business, and contemporary masculinity, set in the cutthroat-but-ridiculous world of management consulting King of the Mississippi is an incisive, uproarious dissection of contemporary male vanity and delusion, centered around a "war" for dominance of a prestigious Houston consulting firm. On one side of the conflict is Brock Wharton, an old money ex-jock whose delight in telling clients to downsize is matched only by his firm conviction that people like himself deserve to run the world. On the other is Mike Fink, a newly hired wily former soldier trying to ride his veteran status to the top of a corporate world that lionizes "the troops" without truly understanding them. Brock and Mike are mortal enemies on sight, bitterly divided not only by background and class but by diametrically opposed (yet equally delusional) visions of what it means to "be a man." And as their escalating conflict spirals out of control, it will take them all the way from the hidebound boardrooms and gladiatorial football fields of Texas to the vapid and self-serving upper echelon of Silicon Valley, to the corporatized battlefield of Iraq, all the while serving as a ruthlessly funny takedown of the vacuity and empty machismo of corporate life and alpha-male culture in modern America. Devastatingly witty, unapologetically scathing, and ultimately surprisingly moving, King of the Mississippi marks the arrival of a unique and scintillating new voice in American fiction, one that boldly punctures the myths of American manhood like no one has since the heyday of The Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho.
Author | : Mary Winstead |
Publisher | : Hyperion |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780786867967 |
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Mary Winstead grew up in Minneapolis, captivated by her fathers tales of his boyhood in rural Mississippi. As a child, she visited her relatives down South, and her nostalgia for that world and its people would compel her to collect her fathers stories for her own children. But Winsteads research into her family history led her to a series of horrifying revelations: about her relatives ingrained racism, their involvement with the Klan, and their connection to the infamous 1964 murders of three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney.Writing with dignity, humility, and a profound sense of time and place, Winstead chronicles her awakening to painful truths about people she loved and thought she knew. She profiles her father, a man of remarkable charm and secretiveness. She traces her familys roots through post-Civil War poverty, Southern pride, and Jim Crow laws, exploring racism on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Most movingly, she details her own inner war, a battle between her love for her family and their untenable beliefs and practices.
Author | : Mark Childress |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007-09-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316015350 |
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You need only one best friend, Daniel Musgrove figures, to make it through high school alive. After his family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, Daniel finds fellow outsider Tim Cousins. The two become inseparable, sharing a fascination with ridicule, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, and Arnita Beecham, the most bewitching girl at Minor High. But soon things go terribly wrong. The friends commit a small crime that grows larger and larger, and threatens to engulf the whole town. Arnita, the first black prom queen in the history of the school, is injured and wakes up a different person. And Daniel, Tim, and their families are swept up in a shocking chain of events. "There is nothing small about Childress's fine novel. It's big in all the ways that matter -- big in daring, big in insight, and big-hearted. Really, really big-hearted." -New Orleans Times-Picayune