GenreLaw, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorRichard Rubin
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight25 oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-510321
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal976.2/46 B
Table Of ContentContents Prologue: Thanksgiving, 1994 PART I:THE HIGH-WATER MARK OF MY CONFEDERACY Hospitality State A Fine Introduction The Alternate State Capital of Mississippi They'll Eat You Alive The Last of Their Kind There Is No News How People Really Lived The Briefest Experience of Perfection My Job Some Kind of Club The High-Water Mark of My Confederacy Bye, Baby PART II:A BAD PLACE TO BE The New Old South The Benefits of Being a White Man Contaminated The Delta Way A Bad Place to Be He Who Stands Firm Diorama In Every Man PART III:THE DEATH OF MY GREENWOOD One More Mississippi Mystery Something Blue Confederacy of Silence The Death of My Greenwood Afcknowledgments
SynopsisTraces the author's experiences as a young journalist in the Deep South, describing the challenges he faced in a town resisting twentieth-century life and his relationship with a promising young football player who is later charged with murder.