H Brandt Ayers: 3 books
Cussing Dixie, Loving Dixie
Fifty Years of Commentary by H. Brandt Ayers
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Cussing Dixie, Loving Dixie: Fifty Years of Commentary by H. Brandt Ayers collects in one volume the essential writing of the legendary publisher and editor of the Anniston Star.
The decades-long ribbon of prose that spilled from Ayers’s pen captured the epochal milestones of our times, such...
In Love with Defeat
The Making of a Southern Liberal
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Journalist and publisher Brandt Ayers's journey takes him from the segregated Old South to covering the central scenes of the civil rights struggle, and finally to editorship of his family’s hometown newspaper, The Anniston Star. The journey was one of controversy, danger, a racist nightrider murder,...
The 2013 BCS National Championship
A Reflection on America's Moral Equivalent of War, Occasioned by the Latest Meeting on the Gridiron of the Crimson Tide and Notre Dame
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
College football is a cultural dynamo, the sport that like no other taps into Americans’ martial spirit and evokes the fervor of religious faith. Further, it has been a fulcrum of social change; its schemes date back to Hannibal; and some of its themes are drawn from military history and Shakespeare’s...