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  • DIXIE RISING: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture. by Applebome, Peter.
    Applebome, Peter.
    DIXIE RISING: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crown, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which is even more true now than when it was written. The author "argues that the South is the region which is increasingly defining the whole United States. The roots of the major national debates on conservative politics, race, guns and states' rights are in the South - debates which the South once was losing, but has now reshaped. In a chapter on George Wallace, he traces the 1994 Republican take-over of Congress back to Wallace's racially charged campaigns that lost the white South for the Democratic party, changing the American political landscape. Applebome makes race the central issue, but also explores other southern influences like country…

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    New York: Crown, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which is even more true now than when it was written. The author "argues that the South is the region which is increasingly defining the whole United States. The roots of the major national debates on conservative politics, race, guns and states' rights are in the South - debates which the South once was losing, but has now reshaped. In a chapter on George Wallace, he traces the 1994 Republican take-over of Congress back to Wallace's racially charged campaigns that lost the white South for the Democratic party, changing the American political landscape. Applebome makes race the central issue, but also explores other southern influences like country music and Southern Baptism." SIGNED on the half title page. Photographs, notes on sources, bibliography, index. xii, 385 pp. ISBN: 0-812926536.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 79114
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  • THE BATTLEFIELD AND BEYOND: Essays on the American Civil War . by Jewett, Clayton E., editor.
    Jewett, Clayton E., editor.
    THE BATTLEFIELD AND BEYOND: Essays on the American Civil War .

    Edition: First printing.

    Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which "shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era. Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne M. Hudson, and Daniel E. Sutherland delve into the master-slave relationship, the role of blacks in the army, and the nature of southern violence. Herman Hattaway, Paul D. Escott, and Judith F. Gentry offer innovative perspectives on the influential leadership of President Jefferson Davis, Lieutenant-General Stephen D. Lee, and General Edmund Kirby Smith. Other contributors consider politicians and the public: Michael J. Connolly and Clayton E. Jewett investigate how despotism contributed to Confederate defeat; David E. Kyvig and Alan M. Kraut examine the war's impact on…

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    Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which "shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era. Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne M. Hudson, and Daniel E. Sutherland delve into the master-slave relationship, the role of blacks in the army, and the nature of southern violence. Herman Hattaway, Paul D. Escott, and Judith F. Gentry offer innovative perspectives on the influential leadership of President Jefferson Davis, Lieutenant-General Stephen D. Lee, and General Edmund Kirby Smith. Other contributors consider politicians and the public: Michael J. Connolly and Clayton E. Jewett investigate how despotism contributed to Confederate defeat; David E. Kyvig and Alan M. Kraut examine the war's impact on the Constitution and racial relationships with Jews; and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Kenneth Nivison, and Emory M. Thomas discuss the critical function of memory in our understanding of Lincoln's assassination. The essays . . expose our nation's continuing struggles with race, individual rights, terrorism, and the economy.. . 150 years after the nation's most defining conflict its consequences still resonate." A title in the series "Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War" under the editorship of T. Michael Parrish. Notes at the end of each selection and notes on contributors. 341 pp. ISBN: 978-0807143551.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 62340
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  • THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD: American Empire, Book Two. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD: American Empire, Book Two.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Twice in the last century, brutal war erupted between the United States and the Confederacy" - and in 1924, it is a time of rebuilding, of restoring the monuments in Washington and reclaiming the devasted cities. SIGNED and dated on the title page. Maps. 503 pp. ISBN: 0-345-444213.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 81219
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