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One Giant Step Back

…idea has been demonstrably false. But on the morning of the launch of Apollo 11, even the gruffest, most cynical of Americans, even Norman Mailer himself, could inhabit that optimism…

No Surrender

…saw the Everglades or the Ten Thousand Islands. I also want them to feel that “moral outrage”—anger, even—that I felt when I watched a place getting paved over and turned…

Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government

University Press of Florida
364 pages
$74.95


“Original, illuminating, and provocative, Nation within a Nation is certain to challenge those who deny southern exceptionalism. These essays show the complexity, hypocrisy, and, yes, perversion in this tortured relationship.”

–Orville Vernon Burton, author, The Age of Lincoln

Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government

Finding Identity Amid Anonymity

…this unfinished, unsettling quality. Brandon leads his protagonists to the brink of life-altering decisions but then stops before the critical choices are made, giving readers the space to imagine alternative…

On the Origins of Ecology

…Hunt examines, his thinking about the relationship of humans to the rest of nature was not yet completely formed. Muir was endowed with extraordinary energy and irrepressible intellectual curiosity. His…

Georgia Democrats, The Civil Rights Movement, and the Shaping of The New South

University Press of Florida
288 pages
$74.95


“In this timely volume, Tim Boyd challenges one of the most prominent explanations for this shift: the ‘white backlash’ theory. Taking the political experience in Georgia as a case study, he makes a compelling argument that New South politics formed out of the factional differences within the state Democratic Party and not simply as a result of white reactions to the civil rights movement.”

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