Frye Gaillard, writer-in-residence at the University of South Alabama, is the author of seventeen other works of non-fiction, including Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy; The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina; Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America; and Watermelon Wine: The Spirit of Country Music.
Indelible and often surprising portraits of everybody from Marshall Chapman to Billy Graham, Tipper Gore to Johnny Cash. --Less Smith A fresh, non-standard survey of Southern culture over the last 40 years: significant figures who are not well known and new lights on ones who are. It will buck you up, I believe, if you have strong feelings about the South. --Roy Blount Jr. ""Frye Gaillard tells the truth at all costs, confronting racism head-on, explicating Southern music better than anybody else in the world, presenting indelible and often surprising) portraits of everybody from Marshall Chapman to Billy Graham, Tipper Gore to Johnny Cash. Rigorous integrity and generous, graceful writing characterize this fine book."" --Lee Smith
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