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Mockingbird songs : my friendship with Harper Lee
\"A memoir of Wayne Flynt's friendship with Harper Lee, centered on a collection of letters between Harper Lee, her sisters, ... Wayne Flynt, and his wife\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Alabama in the Twentieth Century
An authoritative popular history that places the state in
regional and national context Alabama is a state
full of contrasts. On the one hand, it has elected the lowest
number of women to the state legislature of any state in the
union; yet according to historians it produced two of the ten
most important American women of the 20th century—Helen
Keller and Rosa Parks. Its people are fanatically devoted to
conservative religious values; yet they openly idolize tarnished
football programs as the source of their heroes. Citizens who are
puzzled by Alabama's maddening resistance to change or its
incredibly strong sense of tradition and community will find
important clues and new understanding within these pages. Written
by passionate Alabamian and accomplished historian Wayne Flynt,
Alabama in the Twentieth Century offers supporting
arguments for both detractors and admirers of the state. A native
son who has lived, loved, taught, debated, and grieved within the
state for 60 of the 100 years described, the author does not
flinch from pointing out Alabama's failures, such as the woeful
yoke of a 1901 state constitution, the oldest one in the nation;
neither is he restrained in calling attention to the state's
triumphs against great odds, such as its phenomenal number of
military heroes and gifted athletes, its dazzling array of
writers, folk artists, and musicians, or its haunting physical
beauty despite decades of abuse. Chapters are organized by
topic—politics, the economy, education, African Americans,
women, the military, sport, religion, literature, art,
journalism—rather than chronologically, so the reader can
digest the whole sweep of the century on a particular subject.
Flynt’s writing style is engaging, descriptive, free of
clutter, yet based on sound scholarship. This book offers
teachers and readers alike the vast range and complexity of
Alabama's triumphs and low points in a defining century. *
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