Mississippi Books

Barbara McIntosh has written a wondeful story with Mississippi Kiss. This is a must read for the historical romance reader, as well as anyone else. You won't be sorry. Give it a go!

This is one of the first romance novels I read (about 6 years ago) and I still remember it well. It's one of the best I've read (outside of Johanna Lindsey). If you liked "Man of my Dreams," you'll love this book. The characters are well thought out and the plot is amazing. I highly recommend it!

Collectors of state quilt books will not want to miss this important addition to their library.

This wonderful book not only teaches you about quilts, it also teaches you about the state of Mississippi history. I learned facts I had not known. Such as, Mississippi was one of the five wealthiest states in the Union before the Civil War. And of course this was from the cotton plantations, which supplied the cotton to make quilts. A must read for anyone interested in antiquity of our state.

As a history buff, I find that the only way to really get people interested in the past is to use storytelling. Mississippi Secrets does just that. The book doesn't just state the facts. It also delves into the myths and legends that make storytelling so much fun. I especially enjoyed the rich legends of Native Americans in Mississippi. Plus it's got murders, ghost stories, and a documented UFO encounter. Now that's entertainment. Besides that, what other book would tell you what Afroman and Jim Henson have in common? This book is enjoyable, whether you care about Mississippi history or not.

When I first picked up Mississippi Secrets, I really didn't expect to read anything that I didn't already know. I consider myself a smart person with a good knowledge of world events, but Mississippi Secrets goes far beyond the stuff we're taught in history class.

This book does a great job of showing Mississipp's connection to major historical persons and events. For instance, do you know what a gigantic role Mississippi played in the life and death of Lewis (of Lewis and Clark fame)? I do now. Mississippi Secrets takes famous characters out of the history books and places them in the real world where they were not the squeaky clean heroes we thought they were. And the bite-sized portions remind me of an Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, but with cool stories I look forward to impressing my friends with.

In short, I learned something. More importantly, I enjoyed it.

An excellent book, which pays attention to an episode in history, that should not be forgotten. In simple words James Yates makes clear the relationship between his struggle for civil rights in the US and his later contribution to the International Brigades in Spain. Also his courage to go on with his activities after the Worldwar, as his pictures show, is impressive...

This book is one of the greatest books I bought at the time when I was in the US. Pete Seeger wrote about the book: This is a great story, a great read, and has a great lesson to teach young Americans , black and white, of how you can be strongly rooted in your home community and at the same time see a sense of kindship with working people around this whole world. The battle to save the elected Loyalist government of Spain 50 years ago was the first battle in World War II. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade and others may have lost a battle but they didn't lose the war, nor have lost it yet. Carry on! I want to send all my respect to the members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, your international solidarity which you showed in the battle against the fascist Franco regime will never be forgotten, we will never forget you bright stars in the darkness.

How to brighten your spirits and put a smile on your face --- Just pick up and peruse this bright little gem of a book. The artist's 'joie de vivre' is infectious. Even though the depictions are of local scenes, be it in Mississippi or London or elsewhere, the themes are universal, and I find myself gravitating to Miriam's uplifting view of the world.

This is a wonderful book! It depicts the artist's happy view of life and (mostly) of her home state Mississippi. It is a grand addition to anyones collection. Highly recommended.

An amazing true adventure brought to life -- beautifully written, and with a spirited hero and heroine. In a narrative and highly readable fashion, the author takes us back into the life and times of the early 1800s. She brings into sharp relief the courage and persistence shown by Nicholas Roosevelt and his young wife Lydia Latrobe, as they dared the first steamboat voyage down the uncharted waters of the Mississippi River. The New Madrid earthquake, Indians, primitive living conditions and a host of other challenges spice the story of the historic voyage.

"Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat" describes the first steamboat journey on the Mississippi. It reads like a fast-paced novel yet it is scrupulously accurate history thanks to the thorough research done by the gifted Ms. Dohan. The three-month voyage starts in Pittsburgh in 1811 and is an exciting adventure for Nicholas and Lydia Roosevelt and their two children--the second born enroute. (Nicholas was Theodore Roosevelt's great-granduncle.) Roosevelt believed in his boat and risked everything to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of steam transportation on the Mississippi. The adventure-packed voyage includes passages through dangerous falls, a chase by Indians, the New Madrid earthquake and an on-board fire. This excellently written book is a must for those who like true-action with their history.

One of the most wonderful books highlighting places of interest in my home state of MS.

Miller and Carter have once again produced a magnificent melding of words and images. This is a classic work that transcends interest in a single state and a valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in Southern or architectural history. I don't live in Mississippi, but this book will be on my gift list for many friends across the country.

John Faulkner succeeded capturing the South better than any author I have read. I grew up near his location and in a family with the same moral and cultural values of his. His family could have been mine. If you want to travel to the South that used to be, that our families helped build after the Civil War and before Korea this is the best way I know to do it. His frugal use of words and his short sentences only add to the authenticity of his descriptions. For those of us from there he brings to life,as none other, what used to be and is to never be again.

A wonderful stylist, John tells the intimate story of the Faulkner family that no biographer or academic could. You simply don't know Faulkner until you've read this book.

Nearly forty years have passed since this book was first published, and it is still the best synthesis of this complex subject. Robert Bruce Flanders' 1965 classic study of Nauvoo, incomplete as it is because of its intentional disregard of social and religious issues, opened an avenue of discussion that most others have been unwilling to follow since that time. Flanders said that he wrote of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, not as a religious leader but as a "man of affairs--planner, promoter, architect, entrepreneur, executive, politician, filibusterer--matters of which he was sometimes less sure than he was those of the spirit." He also wrote of Mormon Nauvoo as a western boom town and not as a religious "city on a hill." There is little of the reverence in Flanders' study that most other Mormon scholars have displayed in handling the subject; the sacred history approach has created a romanticized and superficial image of Nauvoo and the events that took place there.

As interpreted by Flanders, Nauvoo is largely a story of tragedy, both personally for Joseph Smith and collectively for the Mormons. For Flanders, the lofty visions that had led to the founding of the Latter Day Saint church descended into a secular quagmire of economics and politics because of internal flaws and external pressures on the banks of the Mississippi. Ultimately, the city failed and the church fractured.

Very balanced book on the Mormons in Nauvoo. Gives a more complete view of the persecution, and reasons thereof, that members of the LDS faith went through in Nauvoo. From their political involvement to land speculation to polygamy to everything in between. Covers everything without an overly rosy or cynical view. The best book on the period that I've read, whether written by a member of the LDS church or not.

I stumbled across this book at the local community college library. I thought it was interesting title, so I sat down with it instead of my Calculus homework. I then spent the next four hours immersed in the hidden history of 20th century domestic counter-intelligence programs, aka "negative intelligence." Suddenly, I understood that the COINTELPRO of the 1960s wasn't an isolated American phenomenon. There was 50 years of practice behind those programs, and this book is the nitty gritty history of that. For those with an ideological bias towards the "right," don't dismiss this book just because it has the term "left" in the title - you need to know about how your government conducts surveillance and agitation against counter-establishment groups, too.

Talbot concludes the introduction to his book noting, "Most Americans, I dare say, have had a pristine vision of a country unencumberd by a meddling army. Like so much of our history, that belief turns out to be largely mythical". This book is essential reading for anyone interested learning about the destruction of the American left or interested in understanding how America's security aperatus rationalizes setting aside the law to enforce conformity to their social and political objectives.