Newsouth Books: 150 books
The Freedom Rides and Alabama
A Guide to Key Events and Places, Context, and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
This concise guidebook gives a brief overview of the 1961 Freedom Rides, a crucial moment in American history in which an interracial group traveled across the South to protest segregated transportation. The Freedom Rides and Alabama focuses on the Freedom Riders? experiences in Alabama, from the...
Civil Rights in My Bones
More Colorful Stories from a Lawyer's Life and Work, 2005–2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Civil Rights in My Bones: More Colorful Stories from a Lawyer's Life and Work, 2005-2015 is a memoir by Julian L. McPhillips Jr. In a career stretching over forty-plus years, the Montgomery, Alabama, attorney has earned a reputation as a determined advocate for the rights of consumers, victims of...
Drug Conspiracy
We Only Want the Blacks
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Part history, part true crime thriller, part first-hand investigation into the inner workings of the U.S. Justice Department, and part polemic, Drug Conspiracy: “We Only Want the Blacks”—My Persecution by the United States Government is the story of one man’s attempt to navigate the labyrinthine...
by John Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
This provocative novel takes the reader on a wild ride inside the mind of a Mississippi Delta good-old-boy ex-deputy sheriff who is as vicious and racist as the worst 1950s-’60s stereotypes. Junior Ray Loveblood narrates the story in his own profane, colloquial voice, telling why he hates just about...
by Lewis Grizzard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
They Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat, first published in 1982, has sold more than 100,000 copies. Without skipping a beat, one of America's favorite humorists, the late Lewis Grizzard, tells of the early stirrings of his wayward heart in the backseat of a '57 Chevy and the ominous murmurings...
Tinsley Harrison, M.D.
Teacher of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Tinsley Harrison -- doctor, teacher, researcher, medical school leader -- is one of the most important medical figures of the 20th century. He edited the first five editions of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, regarded as a quintessential medical text and perhaps the best-selling medical...
Crooked Letter i
Coming Out in the South
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Crooked Letter i offers a collection of first-person nonfiction narratives that reflect the distinct 'coming out' experiences of a complex cross-section of gay, lesbian, and transgendered Southerners from all walks of life and at different stages in their lives. There is the Appalachian widower who,...
The Poetry of Faith
Sermons Preached in a Southern Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The ministry of the Rev. Stephen F. Dill was forged in the turbulent civil rights years when he stood for social justice and spoke against racial segregation. In this collection of sermons -- many from his 20 years as pastor of Dauphin Way United Methodist Church in Mobile, Alabama -- Dill reflects...
Beyond the Burning Bus
The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Anniston, Alabama, is a small industrial city between Birmingham and Atlanta. In 1961, the city’s potential for race-related violence was graphically revealed when the Ku Klux Klan firebombed a Freedom Riders bus. In response to that incident, a few black and white leaders in Anniston took a progressive...
by Frye Gaillard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
More than twenty years ago, Robert Croshon, an elderly friend of Frye Gaillard's, told him the story of Croshon's ancestor, Gilbert Fields, an African-born slave in Georgia who led his family on a daring flight to freedom. Fields and his family ran away intending to travel north, but clouds obscured...
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...
Poor Man's Provence
Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
For over a decade, syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson has been spending several months a year in Southwest Louisiana, deep in the heart of Cajun Country. Unlike many other writers who have parachuted into the swampy paradise for a few days or weeks, Rheta fell in love with the place, bought...
Forever Blue
The Memoirs of a Lanier High School and University of Kentucky Football Coach
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Coach Bill Moseley?s inspiring guidance still resonates with his former players, and his story is one of exemplary and honest leadership. Growing up hardscrabble in Depression-era Montgomery, Alabama, Bill began his playing days at Sidney Lanier High School and the University of Kentucky, before joining...
by Lewis Grizzard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Lewis Grizzard always makes us laugh. But this time, when he tells us all about his father—a certified war hero and a shameless passer of bad checks . . . a charmer of men and women and a consummate con artist . . . a man of great courage and an alcoholic destined to drink himself to death—he’s...