Mississippi Books

I have read many books on Hawks, and I enjoy "Hawks on Hawks," very much.

This book, however, turned out to be interesting in a surprising way. Most of these interviews come from the late Sixties and early Seventies, when Hawks' career was ending. You can see Hawks putting a brave face on his late work, glad for the chance to be working, but once his career is over, he assesses those films very clearly. Also of interest is that the book shows how the first generation of film students came to Hawks, seeking his input on the political struggles of the era and the emerging women's movement. Seeing the clash between their expectations and Hawks' opinions is almost a movie in itself.

Also, Hawks expresses himself vigorously about other directors, something I hadn't really seen before. (He is especially harsh on post-WWII Capra.)

So even if you have read "Hawks on Hawks," "Howard Hawks Inteviews" will surprise you and give you a fuller portrait of the man behind all those terrific movies.

Much has been written about Huey of the decades, truths and falsities. This book is something that is missing from the large amount of information written about Huey. This is not a historical critique or timeline of the Panthers, but, a look into Huey's evolution while leader of the Panthers. From Black Nationalist to internationalist.

A much needed missing piece about Huey's theoretical development.

St. Louis physician and Southern sympathizer, Dr. McPheeters' experience with Federal arrest and banishment, plus his day-by-day account of life in camp and with the local populace, gives an excellent picture of the impact of the Civil War in the Western Theater. You'll also gain knowledge of medical treatment, Confederate Trans-Mississippi politics, and military excursions by General Stirling Price.

My name is Joe Philipson. The guy that wrote this book is my uncle.

I just thought everyone would like to know that...yah he won some awards and stuff for it.

He lives in Nimbia, Africa in the peacecorp and majored in African studies so he knows what he's talking about.

Having grown up in the South, I was very impressed with how exact and on the mark this book was with Southern Traditions. The author was very well versed in all accounts of this book. In a Brother's Eyes, will touch you with every emotion you have and leave you wanting more. By the end I was became part of the McLachlan family and was rooting for all the characters. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put it down until the end!

Wildlife observer and photographer Joe Hudspeth, Jr. provides a fine portfolio of colorful close-up wildlife shot taken from the wetlands of Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas with In The Southern Wild, sharing his achievements here with any who are interested in either wildlife photography or Southern wetlands. Rick Bass provides the foreword to an exceptional and enthusiastically recommended visual treat of close-up wildlife encounters.

I want to know all about Mississipi City Histor

This book is an excellent source for understanding North American Indian customs and life style prior to the appearance of European settlers. It is very well documented with good authenticity. The journals by Nicholas Perrot are vivid and interesting.

The 1950's was about much more than conformity, containment, and contentment, and Lukin and his "Suburbanites" provide a peek behind the gray flannel curtain to show aspects of Fifites culture previously "invisible" in scholarship. Although all of the essays were well-written and felt ground-breaking in terms of their subjects (feminism during the Red Scare, homosexuality in the deep South, working-class conflict), two essays in particular captured my imagination and attention: Jennifer Worley's take on lesbian pulps and Ladislava Khailova's examination of mental disability in "The Light in the Piazza".

Khailova provides a history of attitudes toward and treatment of people (particularly women) with mental disabilities, and contrasts the eugenicist tendencies of state institutions with the accommodating, even romantic attitudes author Elizabeth Spencer ascribes to Italy. While the mentally disabled Clara is coddled and contained in the US, her sexuality understood as threatening, in Italy she becomes in many ways the ideal romantic partner and wife.

But, as much as I enjoyed Khailova's essay,and as important as it is to my own field (Disability Studies), my favorite essay in the book is Jennifer Worley's "The Mid-Century Pulp Novel and the Imagining of Lesbian Community." While it is deeply scholarly and relentlessly smart, Worley's essay is also fun -- the writing itself sparkles with a sense of humor, and an affection for the subject matter. This is the only academic article I've read in years (if ever) that I wanted to read over and over again, in the bathtub with a glass of wine. It's sophisticated in its description of the social forces which constrained writers of pulp novels, and conversational when it explores the particulars of Ann Bannon's characters.

Overall, Invisible Suburbs is accessible to the non-specialist and covers new ground in 1950's scholarship for those in the know. This is a book I'll be re-reading frequently.

Island Victory: The Battle Of Kwajalein Atoll by Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall (1900-1977) is a rare primary historical source, written by at-the-time Lieutenant Colonel S. L. A. Marshall at the time of the deadly Pacific fight in World War II. Marshall was a veteran of WW I who would later serve in Korea and Vietnam and become a brigadier general. When the Seventh Infantry Division battled the Japanese across Kwajalein Atoll in February 1944, Marshall was given the official task of creating a written record of the battle. In order to be as accurate as possible, he brought front-line soldiers to a group interview and taped their conversations in order to get as clear an idea as possible. Written accounts of war simply do not get any closer to the actions and feelings of those were there. Island Victory is a highly recommended, "must-read" book for those who study eye-witness WW II accounts, and a core title contribution to World War II studies academic reference collections.