Jason Sokol grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, and attended Oberlin College and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in American history. He lives in Ithaca, New York, and teaches at Cornell University.
“Fascinating and remarkably empathetic.” —The Atlantic Monthly“[There Goes My Everything is] on my personal list of the year’s best books.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post “A richly documented, often compellingly dramatic narrative, whose strength is its absence of polemic.” —Dallas Morning News"As eye-opening a look at race relations in the Civil Rights Era as anything this side of Dr. King's own Letter From a Birmingham Jail."—Arkansas Democrat-Gazette“Simply stunning…This is one of the few books about the civil rights movement…that gets it right…Deserves to be read by every American.” —Tucson Citizen
This debut by Sokol, a doctoral candidate in American history at the University of California, Berkeley, is an insightful, incisive analysis of a critical period of change in American history. Examining the American Civil Rights Movement in the South from the conclusion of World War II to the mid-1970s, Sokol offers an original and penetrating perspective on what all too often is assumed to be one singular progression. He focuses on the experiences, reactions, and in some instances radical transformations of whites of the South during this most tumultuous time. Sokol's narrative challenges the reader to reexamine this era from the various and often competing perspectives of mostly ordinary men and women encountering a societal earthquake beneath their feet. Particularly effective is Sokol's focus on the "micro" level, as he considers the "intrusion" of black lives in "white only" establishments such as schools, restaurants, movie theaters, and public accommodations, as per the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Making sense of social transformation is seldom easy and invariably fraught with temptations to oversimplify. Sokol works carefully, compassionately, and creatively and avoids the pitfall of simplistic assessment. This chronicle of the destruction of the white Southern hierarchy belongs in all libraries, public and academic. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 4/1/06.] Stephen K. Shaw, Northwest Nazarene Coll., Nampa, ID Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
"Fascinating and remarkably empathetic." -The Atlantic Monthly"[There Goes My Everything is] on my personal list of the year's best books." -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post "A richly documented, often compellingly dramatic narrative, whose strength is its absence of polemic." -Dallas Morning News"As eye-opening a look at race relations in the Civil Rights Era as anything this side of Dr. King's own Letter From a Birmingham Jail."-Arkansas Democrat-Gazette"Simply stunning...This is one of the few books about the civil rights movement...that gets it right...Deserves to be read by every American." -Tucson Citizen
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