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Paul Mendelson was the winner of the July 1999 Hurricane Quiz drawing. Congratulations! Each month during hurricane season, we will randomly draw a name from all entrants. Each winner will receive a free copy of one of Jay Barnes's books: North Carolina's Hurricane History or Florida's Hurricane History--your choice! . . . On August 3, Samuel Walker, author of Prompt and Utter Destruction, was interviewed live on the internet by online host Eliot Stein on his website Stein Online, conducted for the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The interview can be heard now on the website Broadcast.com. . . . UNC Press author Jeanne Voltz (The Country Ham Book, October 1999) was featured on the cable's T.V. Food Network in July as an expert on the preparation of country ham (a lost art, if you ask us) on the show "Cooking Live." . . .We have been busy scheduling a lot of author signings and events. Please check out our calendar of upcoming author events for information on a booksigning near you!

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 Franca

See the list of Award Winning Books.


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