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Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy

Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy

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Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy

by Hendrickson, Paul

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9780375404610
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New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed on half-title.. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards [4], . xii, 343, [7] p. Illustrations. Map. A Bibliographic Essay. Index. From Wikipedia: "Paul Hendrickson (born April 29, 1944) is an American author, journalist, and professor. He is a senior lecturer and member of the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a former member of the writing staff at the Washington Post. He has been honored with two writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Lyndhurst Foundation, and Alicia Patterson Foundation. In 2003, he was the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy. In 2012, he was honored with a second Heartland Prize for Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961. It was also a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. "

Synopsis

Recounts the story of seven white Mississippi lawmen depicted in a horrifically telling 1962 Life magazine photograph, and of the racial intolerance that is their legacy. The men have gathered to stop James Meredith from integrating the University of Mississippi, and  The Sons of Mississippi  investigates how their racial attitudes shaped their lives and the lives of the generations that came after them.  Paul Hendrickson, a prizewinning feature writer for the Washington Post for more than twenty years, now teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Seminary: A Search, Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (a finalist for the National Book Award). He lives with his wife and two sons in Philadelphia. From the Hardcover edition. -

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy
Author
Hendrickson, Paul
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed on half-title.
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First edition [stated]. Presumed first printing
ISBN 10
0375404619
ISBN 13
9780375404610
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication
New York, NY
Date Published
2003
Keywords
Ross Barnett, Ty Ferrell, Civil Rights, John Cothran, James Grimsley, Jim Garrison, James Meredith, Ku Klux Klan, Integration, University of Mississippi

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