AltWeeklies Wire
'High Cotton': Not For Sissiesnew
There have been hundreds, maybe thousands, of books written about the social, agricultural and economic attributes of cotton, but not until Gerard Helferich came along did anyone think to provide insight into what it is like to actually be a cotton farmer.
Jackson Free Press |
James L. Dickerson |
08-23-2007 |
Nonfiction
Telling It Straightnew
Mills devotes chapters to the "Three Kings of Tombigbee Country" (Elvis, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus), former legislators Butch Lambert and Jerry Wilburn, former state Supreme Court Justice Armis Hawkins and Mill's life as a young legislator staying at the old Sun-N-Sand Motel.
Jackson Free Press |
Jere Nash |
07-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
Politics in the Light of Daynew
Using personal records, correspondence, meeting minutes and other long-forgotten documentation, Crespino chronicles how white reaction to the civil rights movement in Mississippi contributed to the rise and formation of Republican Party as we know it.
Jackson Free Press |
Jere Nash |
05-07-2007 |
Nonfiction
Child Soldiernew
If you were put off by the Caucasian self-obsession of Blood Diamond, A Long Way Gone serves as a refreshing correction.
Jackson Free Press |
John Dicker |
03-22-2007 |
Nonfiction
Deep Waters of Weltynew
Susan Marrs takes readers through the years of life of this icon of Mississippi literature in which she lived and read and wrote and revised herself into a full-fledged writer.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
07-28-2005 |
Nonfiction
A Hip Mama's Talesnew
The lessons in Bee Lavender’s autobiography are not about making dead animals look life-like but about getting through this life.
Jackson Free Press |
Skyla Dawn Luckey |
05-30-2005 |
Nonfiction
Statistics Are at the Heart of Baseballnew
Lovers of baseball dwell on statistics the way teen-aged girls dissect each and every nuance in a glance from that cute boy across the cafeteria.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
05-19-2005 |
Nonfiction
To Hell and Backnew
Two rainy seasons spent killing in Vietnam haunt Claude Anshin Thomas. When it rains, he thinks of mud, napalm, people screaming and dying. In his book, he describes how he grappled with violence and then found solace.
Jackson Free Press |
Shay O'Neil |
02-17-2005 |
Nonfiction
Anniston Burningnew
Author Phil Noble describes how the work of the Bi-Racial Human Relations Council enabled citizens of Anniston, Ala., to endure and to overcome, for the most part, the violence associated with the Civil Rights Movement in the South.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
02-17-2005 |
Nonfiction
An Epitaph for Architecturenew
"Content," an inventory of work by the Office of Metropolitan Architecture, professes at every turn the difficulty of creating architecture in an increasingly complex and pluralistic world.
Jackson Free Press |
Randy Perkins |
11-10-2004 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Content, Rem Koolhaas
Behind the Robesnew
Another book on the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church appears, at first, redundant. What is there left to say? Yet, Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II informs us of new, fascinating stories. One is of a priest who takes on the Vatican on behalf of abuse victims.
Jackson Free Press |
Lawrence Silver |
11-03-2004 |
Nonfiction
God Had a Plannew
Hanson writes, "I've never been one to believe that people could or should blame how they’ve turned out on circumstance, yet Spencer’s story spoke straight to my soul."
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
11-03-2004 |
Nonfiction
White Noisenew
The only thing as ill-conceived as the 22-year-old author's arguments is his logic. Trouble is, somewhere along the line Ben Ferguson bought into his own hype, and started believing he was qualified to crown himself the voice of young America.
Jackson Free Press |
Robert Williamson |
10-02-2004 |
Nonfiction
Sweet Home Paradoxnew
What we have in Mark Kemp’s new book is much more than what it appears to be on the surface—it’s a cathartic treatise on the author’s life in and with the music of his formative and adult years and the musicians who brought it to him.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
09-23-2004 |
Nonfiction
The Altar of Footballnew
The New York Times reporter Warren St. John became intrigued with football fan mania after he heard a father admit on a TV interview that he and his wife skipped their daughter's wedding to watch a football game.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
09-08-2004 |
Nonfiction
