Category Archives: Reed, John Shelton
The South Explained
John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed talk about their new book, 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the South. In this book they combine precision, humor, and Confederate pride to explain America’s most intriguing but misunderstood region to the rest … Continue reading
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Dispatches from the South
Douglass Cater discusses his forthcoming book about President Lyndon Johnson. John Shelton Reed discusses Whistling Dixie, his collection of essays about the contemporary South. 589 – Dispatches from the South
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Southerners; Commentary for non-Southerners
Clyde Edgerton and Jill McCorkle discuss fiction in the modern South. Ms. McCorkle’s most recent book is Tending to Virginia (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill). Mr. Edgerton’s most recent novel is The Floatplane Notebooks (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill).; John … Continue reading
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Southern Folk: (1) Faulkner’s “Negro”; (2) White Stereotypes
Thadious Davis speaks about her study of Faulkner’s attitudes toward blacks and whites. She is the author of Faulkner’s ‘Negro’: Art and the Southern Context. In the second segment [13:45], John Shelton Reed, the author of Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy: Native … Continue reading
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Religion in England and America: (1) Mormonism; (2) The Oxford Movement
Aspects of religious thought and practice in nineteenth-century America and England are the focus of two interviews. In her book, Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition, Jan Shipps finds in nineteenth-century Mormonism an analogy to Christianity as it … Continue reading
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Tagged Mormonism -- History; Oxford Movement -- History, Religion
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