Mississippi: An American Journey - Vintage Departures - Anthony Walton - Książki - Random House USA Inc - 9780679777410 - 28 stycznia 1997
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Mississippi: An American Journey - Vintage Departures

Anthony Walton

Mississippi: An American Journey - Vintage Departures

  To most Americans, Mississippi is not a state but a scar, the place where segregation took its ugliest form and struck most savagely at its challengers.  But to many Americans, Mississippi is also home.  And it is this paradox, with all its overtones of history and heartache, that Anthony Walton?whose parents escaped Mississippi for the relative civility of the Midwest?explores in this resonant and disquieting work of travel writing, history, and memoir.

Traveling from the Natchez Trace to the yawning cotton fields of the Delta and from plantation houses to air-conditioned shopping malls, Walton challenged us to see Mississippi's memories of comfort alongside its legacies of slavery and the Klan.  He weaves in the stories of his family, as well as those of patricians and sharecroppers, redneck demagogues and martyred civil rights workers, novelists and bluesmen, black and white. Mississippi is a national saga in brilliant microcosm, splendidly written and profoundly moving.


288 pages, 12 B&W PHOTOS THROUGHOUT; 12 B&W PHOTOS THROUGHOUT

Media Książki     Paperback Book   (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem)
Wydane 28 stycznia 1997
ISBN13 9780679777410
Wydawcy Random House USA Inc
Strony 288
Wymiary 133 × 202 × 16 mm   ·   277 g
Język English  

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