"I cannot live without books."--Thomas Jefferson
Vol. 2, No. 4 10/15/95
Watch this space for announcements about newsworthy books (or books that ought to be newsworthy)
Contents:
- Congratulations, John Hope Franklin
- Election Season Reading: Newt's Roots
- Come Go Home With Me
- When Nature Calls
- Speak Now Against The Day
- Holiday Gift Books
- Award-Winning Books
- Book Club Adoptions
- Bookstores carrying UNC Press Books
Congratulations, John Hope Franklin
Congratulations to UNC Press author John Hope Franklin for receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. In December, the Press will reissue The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860, Dr. Fra
nklin's first book. It was originally published by UNC Press in 1943.
Election Season Reading: Newt's Roots
The recent conservative climate in Washington should come as no surprise, because the roots of the movement are in the 1960s. While many political observers were focusing on social protests and liberal politics in the 60s, a conservative movement swept th
rough the Republican Party, setting the stage for Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential victory and the subsequent domination of the GOP by the Right.
In Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP, historian Mary C. Brennan describes how conservative Americans from a variety of backgrounds joined forces to transform the Republican Party. She argues that Barry Goldwat
er's loss to Lyndon Johnson in 1964 has obscured the more significant fact that conservatives had wrested control of the Republican Party from the moderates who had dominated it for years.
You'll meet Bertha and the snake handlers, local preacher Manassey Fender (who "looked like a pencil with a burr haircut, in a suit"), Adams's beloved grandfather Breaddaddy, and her great aunt "Granny," the well-known balladeer Dellie Chandler Norton, wh om Adams calls "the most exciting person I have ever known and the best teacher I would ever have."
Sheila's autographing schedule:
Saturday, Nov. 18, The Book Place, Johnson City, TN, 2-4 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 19, Malaprop's Books, Asheville, NC, 3 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 7, The Regulator, Durham, NC, 7-8:30 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 8, Atticus Books, Greensboro, NC, 7-8:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 9, Michael's Books, Greenville, NC, 12 noon
Sunday, Dec. 10, Wellington's Books, Cary, NC, 4-6 p.m.
Read "It's a Sign," the first story in the book.
Fifty of Jim Dean's best outdoor essays appear in Dogs That Point, Fish That Bite. These witty, sometimes poignant pieces are arranged into a loose chronicle of the sporting year, with a generous allowance for digression: the first is set in April, on the opening day of trout season, and the last tells of a New Year's Day spent alone in a mountain cabin.
Seasoned readers of Wildlife in North Carolina, the award-winning magazine of the state Wildlife Resources Commission, always turn first to the inside front cover for editor Dean's "Our Natural Heritage" column, from which the essays in this book a re drawn.
You don't have to be a Tar Heel to appreciate Dean's easy writing style and pointed observations about the outdoor life. And the essays are just long enough for . . . when nature calls. Coming in September. Read " The Last, Best Day."
New in paper: Speak Now Against the Day, by John Egerton
UNC Press has published John Egerton's Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before The Civil Rights Movement In The South. Originally published in hardcover by Knopf in fall 1994, the book, a compelling story of the earliest calls for d
esegregation and racial justice in the South, has been widely noted in the media, including reviews in the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, THE NATION, and WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD, and an extensive interview on National Public Radio. The book has won the Ro
bert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Ambassador Book Award in American Studies, and the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.
See quotes from some of the reviews.
Holiday Gift Books
Books make great gifts. And just in time for the holiday gift-giving season, check out the Winter 1995 Southern Bookshelf catalog from UNC Press. You'll find gift books for the gardener, woodworker, chef, birdwatcher, botanizer, Civil War buff, or nature
lover in your life. Perennial gift books include Roy Underhill's series of four woodworking books based on his PBS series, the Press's three fiction titles by Thomas Wolfe, and loving portraits of mountain communities like The Picture Man: Photograp
hs by Paul Buchanan and Cabins in the Laurel by Muriel Earley Sheppard.
UNC Press also has a catalog of recent Civil War books, from tactical studies of Gettysburg and Fredericksburg to portraits of such figures as Joshua Chamberlain and Ambrose Burnside.
Request The Southern Bookshelf or the Civil War catalog by calling 1-800-848-6224 or sending email to uncpress@unc.edu.
Award-Winning Books
1995 Maryland Historical Society Book Prize, Cowinner, Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake, by James Horn
1995 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, Military Order of the Stars and Bars, Andersonville: The Last Depot, by William Marvel
1994 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Honorable Mention, Canadian Historical Association, Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Life and Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850, by Daniel Vickers
Recent Book Club Adoptions
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860, by Thomas D. Morris, selection of the History Book Club
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