Búsqueda de Editorial : UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS (ORM)

35 resultados

Ordenar por:

ebook

HOWARD ZINN'S SOUTHERN DIARY

ROBERT COHEN

The activist and author of A People's History of the United States records an in-depth and personal account of the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into the historic protests occurring across Atlanta. At the time, Howard Zinn was a history professor...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

REVOLTING NEW YORK

NEIL SMITH AND DON MITCHELL

A comprehensive guide to New York City's historical geography of social and political movements. Occupy Wall Street did not come from nowhere. It was part of a long history of uprising that has shaped New York City. From the earliest European colonization to the present, New Yorkers have been revolting. Hard hitting, revealing, and insightful, Revolting New York tells the stor...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

KNIGHTS OF SPAIN, WARRIORS OF THE SUN

CHARLES HUDSON

The 20th anniversary edition of the study that first revealed De Soto's path across the 16th century American South includes a forward by Robbie Ethridge Between 1539 and 1542, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto led a small army on an expedition of almost four thousand miles across Southeastern America. De Soto's path had been one of history's most intriguing mysteries until...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

THE SLAVE-TRADER'S LETTER-BOOK

JIM JORDAN

Long-lost letters tell the story of an illegal slave shipment, a desperate Savannah businessman, and the lead-up to the Civil War. In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. T...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

THE BROKEN COUNTRY

PAISLEY REKDAL

An attack in a grocery store parking lot launches an examination of the Vietnam War's dark legacy—by the author of The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee. The Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make sense of the shocking and baff...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

WILLIAM FAULKNER IN HOLLYWOOD

STEFAN SOLOMON

A scholarly examination of the scripts and fiction Faulkner created during his foray as a Hollywood screenwriter. During more than two decades (1932-1954), William Faulkner worked on approximately fifty screenplays for major Hollywood studios and was credited on such classics as The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not. Faulkner's film scripts—and later television scripts—const...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

A BOY FROM GEORGIA

HAMILTON JORDAN

"The story of a young man waking to the fact that his family is on the wrong side of history."— Atlanta Journal-Constitution When Hamilton Jordan died in 2008, he left behind a mostly finished memoir. His daughter, Kathleen—with the help of her brothers and mother—took up the task of editing and completing the book. A Boy from Georgia—the result of this posthumous father-dau...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

MY UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION

DEBRA MONROE

A woman reflects on her working-class roots, her unsuitable exes, and her accidental road to happiness in a memoir of "many delights" ( Atlanta Journal Constitution). A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career—if only because her plans to be a midwestern housewife...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

TRUMAN CAPOTE

TISON PUGH

The author of Queer Chivalry presents a biographical study of the celebrity writer "rich with insight into [his] literary and cinematic achievements" ( Publishers Weekly). Truman Capote's legacy is in many ways defined by his complex relationship with Hollywood. In Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies, Tison Pugh explores the author and his literature through a cinem...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

WHITE GIRL

CLARA SILVERSTEIN

One woman's memoir of coming of age while being bused to largely black schools after a Virginia legal battle forced integration in the 1970s. This poignant account recalls firsthand the upheaval surrounding court-ordered busing in the early 1970s to achieve school integration. As a white student sent to predominantly black schools in Richmond, Virginia, Clara Silverstein tells ...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

ALONE AMONG THE LIVING

G. RICHARD HOARD

The son of a Georgia prosecutor killed by a car bomb offers a "compelling" account of the crime and its effect on his life ( Booklist). When I was twenty I came face to face with the old man convicted of paying five thousand dollars for the murder of my father. From the gripping first line of this true story, you will follow a young man's journey through grief and despair to ...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

KATHARINE AND R.J. REYNOLDS

MICHELE GILLESPIE

"A tour de force . . . a top-notch study of a powerful couple negotiating the shifting socioeconomic world of the New South and early corporate America."— Journal of American History Separately they were formidable—together they were unstoppable. Despite their intriguing lives and the deep impact they had on their community and region, the story of Richard Joshua Reynolds an...

$251.00

Ver detalle
ebook

APALACHEE

JOYCE ROCKWOOD HUDSON

In this "deeply involving" novel set in colonial Florida, a Native American woman is torn away from her husband and sold into slavery ( Booklist). Spanish missionaries have settled in the Apalachee homeland on the Florida panhandle, introducing new diseases to the native population and attempting to convert them to Christianity. Despite these changes, the Apalachees maintain ...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE REDNECK RIVIERA

HARVEY H. JACKSON

A "lucid, often pithy" history of the eastern Gulf Coast vacation destination by an Alabama native who is "a talented storyteller as well as a scholar" ( Washington Times). In The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera, Southern historian Harvey H. Jackson presents a cultural history of the coastal region stretching from Mobile Bay and Gulf Shores, Alabama, to Panama City, F...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

THE FAITHS OF THE POSTWAR PRESIDENTS

DAVID L. HOLMES

"Impressively balanced accounts of such matters as Nixon's betrayal of Billy Graham's trust and Obama's connection to Jeremiah Wright…[An] interesting take."— Booklist From the author of The Faiths of the Founding Fathers, an acclaimed account of the spiritual beliefs of such iconic Americans as Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson, this is a measured look at the role of faith...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

HE INCLUDED ME

SARAH RICE

The dramatic and colorful autobiography of a Black woman born in 1909 in rural Alabama. A rare first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South, He Included Me weaves together the story of a black family—eight children reared in rural Alabama, their mother a schoolteacher, their father a minister—and the emerging self-portrait of a woman determined, like her parents...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

AT-RISK

AMINA GAUTIER

"Gautier writes with exhilarating insight and confidence about the lives of teenagers . . . at risk from themselves, their families and their friends."—Margot Livesey, New York Times bestselling author In Amina Gautier's Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don't, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier's stories explore the lives of young African A...

$274.00

Ver detalle
ebook

A CRY OF ANGELS

JEFF FIELDS

"An authentic cry of American innocence . . . The author seizes the reader with a Southern gift for storytelling and never lets go."— Time Magazine It is the mid-1950s in Quarrytown, Georgia. In the slum known as the Ape Yard, hope's last refuge is a boardinghouse where a handful of residents dream of a better life. Earl Whitaker, who is white, and Tio Grant, who is black, ar...

$249.00

Ver detalle
ebook

THE DANGEROUS LIVES OF ALTAR BOYS

CHRIS FUHRMAN

The basis for the film starring Kieran Culkin. "Evoked with the rare, genuine sort of candor that made Holden Caulfield—and J.D. Salinger—famous."— Vogue Set in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the concerns of early adulthood. Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest friends are altar boys at B...

$249.00

Ver detalle
ebook

GHOSTBREAD

SONJA LIVINGSTON

A memoir of growing up poor and hungry in 1970s western New York: "Like an American version of Angela's Ashes."—Kathleen Norris, New York Times-bestselling author of The Cloister Walk When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through. One of seven children brought up by a single mother, Sonja Livingston was raised in areas of western New York that remain re...

$249.00

Ver detalle
ebook

UNDER THE RED FLAG

HA JIN

"The spirit of a rural town during China's Cultural Revolution is captured" in this Flannery O'Connor Award-winning short story collection ( Publishers Weekly). The acclaimed poet Ha Jin was raised in China and emigrated to the United States after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. In Under the Red Flag, he writes about loss and moral deterioration with the keen sense of ...

$251.00

Ver detalle
ebook

OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES

NICOLE SEITZ AND JONATHAN HAUPT

Acclaimed writers, family, friends, and more pay homage to the celebrated Southern author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini. New York Times–bestselling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his f...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

COASTAL NATURE, COASTAL CULTURE

PAUL S. SUTTER / PAUL M. PRESSLY

An essay collection exploring the history of 5,000-year relationship between human culture and nature on the Georgia coast. One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that see...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

THE GOLDEN AGE OF PIRACY

DAVID HEAD

Twelve authors shed new light on the true history and enduring mythology of seventeenth– and eighteenth–century pirates in this anthology of scholarly essays. The twelve entries in The Golden Age of Piracy discuss why pirates thrived in the seas of the New World, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined. ...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

BAD KANSAS

BECKY MANDELBAUM

The eleven stories in this Flannery O'Connor Award-winning collection explore Midwestern life "with heart and precision, and a fresh sense of humor" (Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted). These beautifully crafted stories reveal the complicated underbelly of the country's most flown-over state and the quirky characters that call it home. In this darkly humorous c...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

BLOOD, BONE, AND MARROW

TED GELTNER

"Brilliantly renders the life of the late writer Harry Crews . . . It captures the wild spirit of an unflinching American writer."— Publishers Weekly (starred review) In 2010, Ted Geltner drove to Gainesville, Florida, to pay a visit to Harry Crews and ask the legendary author if he would be willing to be the subject of a literary biography. His health rapidly deteriorating, ...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

LADIES NIGHT AT THE DREAMLAND

SONJA LIVINGSTON

Tales of female daredevils, warriors, killers, and victims: "Radiant essays inspired by 'slivers and bits' of real women's lives…Wise, fresh, captivating."— Kirkus Reviews (starred review) At the Dreamland, women and girls flicker from the shadows to take their proper place in the spotlight. In this lyrical collection, Sonja Livingston weaves together strands of research and ...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

SPELLBOUND

DAVID MCKAIN

In this award-winning memoir, a poet recalls his difficult childhood as the son of a poor lay preacher in a Pennsylvania mountain town. In Spellbound, David McKain brings readers inside the secret world of a boy growing up in "God's Country," a small oil-drilling town in the Allegheny Mountains through the forties and fifties. His devoutly religious parents, overwhelmed by th...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

INVISIBLE SISTERS

JESSICA HANDLER

The acclaimed author of The Magnetic Girl delivers "an elegy for her dead sisters . . . a heartfelt, painful family saga, skillfully told by a survivor" ( Kirkus Reviews). When Jessica Handler was eight years old, her younger sister Susie was diagnosed with leukemia. To any family, the diagnosis would have been upending, but to the Handlers, whose youngest daughter, Sarah, ha...

$229.00

Ver detalle
ebook

ALONE ATOP THE HILL

ALICE DUNNIGAN

The memoir of "the first African American female reporter to gain entry into the closed society of the White House and congressional news correspondents" (Hank Klibanoff, coauthor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Race Beat). In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper's daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation's capital and a career in journalism that eventuall...

$229.00

Ver detalle

01 02 »