A Flawed Hero in Tumultuous Times
…posturing of its inhabitants. Bluff City’s subject is Ernest Withers, the polite and charismatic Memphis photographer who covered crucial moments of the civil-rights era while also acting as a spy…
…posturing of its inhabitants. Bluff City’s subject is Ernest Withers, the polite and charismatic Memphis photographer who covered crucial moments of the civil-rights era while also acting as a spy…
…seemed settled is undergoing radical revision, with sometimes violent conflicts over the placement of Confederate monuments erupting alongside the opening of new historic exhibits—like the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama—designed…
…is called to fight for the doomed King Charles. In conveying historical details of the period, Vantrease seamlessly weaves together the factual and the fictional, the political and personal. For…
Vanderbilt
176 pages
$35
“The photos are placed in context by an essay by Linda Wynn, of Fisk University and the Tennessee Historical Commission, on Nashville during the civil rights era and an essay by Susan H. Edwards, executive director of the Frist Art Museum, on photojournalism. Civil rights pioneer Representative John Lewis offers a foreword recounting memories of his time in Nashville.”
-from the publisher
…a life-altering conversion to Christianity and began to preach. But whenever he found happiness, adversity was also close at hand. Riley’s drinking and mismanagement eventually led him to send Henson…
…war resembles recent post-apocalyptic fiction in which military violence combines with ecological catastrophe to destroy all remnants of civilization. Pockets of survivors band together in secluded enclaves, their paranoia a…