Cynthia Perales was the winner of the June 15 Win Free Books drawing. She chose the Birding Prize Package. Congratulations! The next drawing will be on September 15. . . . We have changed our website address and changed our look (in case you didn't notice). Please bookmark our new address: http://www.uncpress.unc.edu. . . . UNC Press Civil War author Gary Gallagher was featured live at Gettysburg, PA, on C-Span's BookTV on July 3 for his new title, The Antietam Campaign. If you weren't able to catch it, check out Booktv.org for a schedule of upcoming programming; they will likely run the show again in the future. . . . Lawrence Grossman, author of The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean (UNC Press 1998), was recently interviewed by NPR's program, "Living On Earth," for background information on the environmental impact of banana production. To reciprocate, "Living on Earth" lists Grossman's book on their website. To read the transcript for the banana story and to see a list of reference materials, including Grossman's book, visit their website.
GOOD NEWS! Excerpts from Recent Reviews
Broadcasting Freedom
Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948
by Barbara Dianne Savage
"A polished, scholarly account that traces the evolution of national radio in confronting stereotypes of Blacks and pushing for political and economic equality. Serious readers of Black history will appreciate this carefully researched and well-written book." --Emerge
A Speaking Aristocracy
Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
by Christopher Grasso
"A hugely impressive book, with an engaging style and a nice eye for anecdote." --Times Literary Supplement
Working with Class
Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity
by Daniel J. Walkowitz
"A trenchant critique of the trajectory of social work." --The Nation
Henry Steele Commager
Midcentury Liberalism and the History of the Present
by Neil Jumonville
"Neil Jumonville writes history like poetry . . . bringing layers of meaning to his text that transform it into literature. . . . [Jumonville] does a fine job of setting Commager on his intellectual path. He describes the historian's appreciation of the principles of Thomas Jefferson, Unitarian abolitionist Theodore Parker and others who argue for free speech." --Chicago Tribune
Catesby's Birds of Colonial America
edited by Alan Feduccia
"[This book] is both beautiful in the simple accuracy of its drawings and historically interesting for its pictures and descriptions of species now extinct."--New Yorker
The Mystery of Samba
Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil
by Hermano Vianna
edited and translated by John Charles Chasteen
"Despite the fact that Brazil is one of the three most prolific sources for the continuing evolution of popular music (the United States and Cuba being two others), an outsider without a decent knowledge of Portuguese must struggle to grasp the significance of the country's music and its culture. Hermano Vianna's new book is a valiant effort to make sense of both. . . . Popular music isn't only what one turns to when taking a rest from important things like writing social history. It can actually work, if sometimes indirectly, to change the world." --Lingua FrancaSee the May | June 1999 issue of newsbytes for the list of Award Winning Books.
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