A veteran Southern journalist journeys into the heart of rural Alabama to reveal why the small town of Little River erupted into a series of violent racial incidents in 1997, including the murder of a young black man, an attack on the white owner of a local general store, and the burning of two black churches by five white teenagers. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Nashville Sound

Traces the life and career of the mid-twentieth-century country music star, from his sickly and fatherless childhood and musical education by an African-American street singer, to his early gigs in Depression-era rural honky-tonks and rise to Grand Ole Opry star, in an account that also discusses his struggles with alcoholism and early death. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: A veteran journalist’s collection of sportswriting on the blue-collar South. Sport mirrors life. Or, in Paul Hemphill's opinion, “Sport is life.” The 15 pieces in this compelling collection are arranged along the timeline for an aspiring athlete's dream: “The Dawning,” with stories about boys hoping and trying to become men, “The Striving,” about athletes at work, defining themselves through their play, and “The Gloaming,” about the twilight time when athletes contend with broken dreams and fading powers...read more

Product Description: Bittersweet story of salvation an resurrection for a high school football hero by a widely published Nieman Fellow and Pulitzer Prize nominee.

Product Description: Jacob Smith, a prominent black lawyer and political and civil rights leader in New York in the segregated 1950s, was assassinated when his son, Jock, was eight years old. If this memoir told only of a child’s loving remembrance of his father (and a desire to follow in his footsteps, thus “Climbing Jacob’s Ladder”), it would be a success...read more

Product Description: A story with a heart of gold about love and the loss of innocence at the bottom of the most minor league in baseball―the class D Alabama-Florida League in the 1950s, with a sour old maverick manager, a yearning teenage second baseman, and a black catcher masquerading as a Venezuelan...read more

A veteran Southern journalist journeys into the heart of rural Alabama to reveal why the small town of Little River erupted into a series of violent racial incidents in 1997, including the murder of a young black man, an attack on the white owner of a local general store, and the burning of two black churches by five white teenagers. Reprint.

A racist's son returns to his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, to examine how the city's segregationist violence in the 1960s happened, explore the social changes that have occured, and reunite with his family (view table of contents)

Chronicles the story of stock car racing from its origins some fifty years ago through the events of the 1996 Winston Cup season, offering a behind-the-scenes look at everything from top players to the races themselves. Reprint.

Focuses on the drama of the 1996 thirty-one-race season as forty-five-year-old Dale Earnhardt aimed to break the legendary Richard Petty's record for championship seasons, while the upstart twenty-four-year-old Jeff Gordon sought to beat Earnhardt and earn his first championship. 35,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Follows a year in the life of minor league baseball player Marty Malloy, an undersized but competitive infielder whose love for the game, eagerness to learn, and indifference to money distinguishes him from his major league counterparts. 15,000 first printing.

The author recounts his journey with his nineteen-year-old son on a six-month hike along the Appalachian Trail and recalls how the two came to know each other at a critical point in their lives

The author recounts his journey with his nineteen-year-old son on a six-month hike along the Appalachian Trail and recalls how the two came to know each other at a critical point in their lives

Follows the fortunes of three generations of Clays, a North Carolina mountain family, as they move from Sixkiller Gap, to the Grand Ole Opry's center stage, to Nashville, to Harvard, and back to their valley