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MISSISSIPPI HEROES.
Wells, Dean Faulkner; Hunter Cole (editors). Willie Morris; John Carroll Eudy; Nannie Pitts McLemore; Emmie Ellen Wade; Shelby Foote; Nash Burger; John Bettersworth; Louis Dollarhide; William Winter; Jack Crocker; William Boozer; et al (contributors).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1980., 1980
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
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First edition (not stated per publisher's usual practice). xvi, 230 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket with some scuffs/nicks, short tears, and bumping at edges; front flap is not price-clipped. Red cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A…fine copy in a very good dust jacket. With Acknowledgements, Foreword by Willie Morris, Introduction, and Notes on Contributors. Features ten essays: "Thomas Rodney: Patriot in the Mississippi Territory" by John Carroll Eudy; "Sam Dale: Frontiersman of the Old Southwest" by Nannie Pitts McLemore; "Greenwood LeFlore: Farsighted Realist" by Emmie Ellen Wade; "Jefferson Davis: Prologue and Epilogue" by Shelby Foote; "L.Q.C. Lamar: Artificer of Reconciliation" by Nash K. Burger and John K. Bettersworth; "William Alexander Percy: Mississippi's Renaissance Man" by Louis Dollarhide; "Governor Martin Sennett Conner and the Sales Tax, 1932" by William Winter; "Jimmie Rodgers: Father of Country Music" by Jack Crocker; "William Faulkner: Transcending the Place Mississippi" by William Boozer; and "Medgar Willie Evers: The Civil Rights Leader as Utopianist" by Cleveland Donald, Jr. Apparently, per a notation on the book's copyright page, University Press of Mississippi intended for MISSISSIPPI HEROES to be the first volume in a series but no successive books have been published. {MS-Shelf#5} ISBN 0878051287.
