Freedom fighters and hell raisers : a gallery of memorable southerners /
'I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin,' wrote journalist Molly Ivins. Ivins is one of the biggest hell raisers profiled in this collection of essays by Hal Crowther, but there is plenty of hell-raising and...
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[Durham, North Carolina] :
Blair,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Silas House
- Molly Ivins: the red rose of Texas
- John Hope Franklin: a long view, unsweetened
- Father Thomas Berry: deep greens and blues
- Lance Corporal Brian Anderson: a farewell to arms
- James Dickey: the last wolverine
- Sister Evelyn Mattern: confession, dedicated to a fighting nun
- James Still: a man of the world
- Marshall Frady: son of a preacher man
- Kirk Varnedoe: a prophet from Savannah
- Jesse Winchester: the Tennessee kid
- Anne Braden: an embarrassing woman
- Tommy Thompson: the last song of Father Banjo
- Eubie Blake: a century of ragtime
- Judy Bonds: this land is your land
- Frank M. Johnson: the last southern hero
- Jesse Helms: the last of his kind?
- Will Campbell: God's will
- George Wallace: requiem for a bantamweight
- Doc Watson: but now i see.