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Lion of the Blues

August 10, 2011 With Soul of the Man: Bobby “Blue” Bland, Charles Farley illuminates the life of a towering talent that The New Yorker recently called a contender for “voice of the century.” While Bobby “Blue” Bland may not be a household name outside the music community, he played a pivotal role in the blending of blues, country, and gospel that created the soul-music revolution. Farley recently answered questions from Chapter 16 via email and will be signing his new book at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on August 11 at 6 p.m.

Lion of the Blues

The Political Trial of Benjamin Franklin

The Political Trial of Benjamin Franklin

The Political Trial of Benjamin Franklin - A Prelude to the American Revolution

Kenneth Lawing Penegar

Algora Publishing
266 pages
$33.95

“Drawing from his own legal background, Penegar deftly blends his discussion of personalities and events into a narrative that will entertain general readers while providing the nuances that scholars of the American colonial and revolutionary periods will appreciate. Although he does not conclusively solve the mystery of how Franklin got access to the letters, Penegar examines the evidence and offers possible solutions. This work is an important contribution to scholarship, and I have no doubt that it will long remain the key explication of this important historic event.”

— Dr. John R. Vile, Professor of Political Science and Dean, University Honors College of Middle Tennessee State University, author of The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America’s Founding.

To the Battles of Franklin and Nashville and Beyond: Stabilization and Reconstruction in Tennessee and Kentucky, 1864-1866

To the Battles of Franklin and Nashville and Beyond: Stabilization and Reconstruction in Tennessee and Kentucky, 1864-1866

To the Battles of Franklin and Nashville and Beyond: Stabilization and Reconstruction in Tennessee and Kentucky, 1864-1866

Benjamin Franklin Cooling

University of Tennessee Press
526 pages
$45.95

“Benjamin Franklin Cooling has produced a triumphant third volume to his definitive study of Tennessee and Kentucky in the Civil War. Like his first two volumes, this one perfectly integrates the home front and battlefield, demonstrating that civilians were continually embroiled in the war in intense ways comparable to and often surpassing the violence experienced by soldiers on the battlefield. The impacts of armies, guerrillas, and other military forces on civilians was continual, terrifying, and brutal in nearly all parts of the Confederacy’s Heartland.”

— T. Michael Parrish, Linden G. Bowers Professor of American History, Baylor University

Romances of the White Man's Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936

Take My Hand: How Nashville United In The Wake Of The 2010 Flood

Take My Hand: How Nashville United In The Wake Of The 2010 Flood

Take My Hand: How Nashville United In The Wake Of The 2010 Flood

McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations and Hands On Nashville

Hands On Nashville
104 pages
$30.00

In the first days of May 2010, Nashville, Tenn. was devastated by a 1,000-year flood. All Middle Tennesseans were affected, either personally or through friends’ and family members’ hardships. Yet out of this tragedy came triumph in the form of a historic volunteer response. Take My Hand celebrates the thousands of volunteers who refused to let the flood destroy Nashville. It is about the volunteers who worked night and day to help total strangers, and about Hands On Nashville, the organization that led the volunteer effort.

–From the Publisher

Moonshiners and Prohibitionists

Moonshiners and Prohibitionists

Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia

Bruce E. Stewart

University Press of Kentucky
344 pages
$50.00

In Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia, Bruce E. Stewart chronicles the social tensions that accompanied the region’s early transition from a rural to an urban-industrial economy. Stewart analyzes the dynamic relationship of the bootleggers and opponents of liquor sales in western North Carolina, as well as conflict driven by social and economic development that manifested in political discord. A welcome addition to the New Directions in Southern History series, Moonshiners and Prohibitionists addresses major economic, social, and cultural questions that are essential to the understanding of Appalachian history.

–From the Publisher

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