Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo

Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo PDF Author: Willie Morris
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ISBN: 9780916242602
Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo

Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo PDF Author: Willie Morris
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ISBN: 9780916242602
Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo

Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo PDF Author: Willie Morris
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613885409
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Languages : en
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Good Old Boy

Good Old Boy PDF Author: Willie Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916242688
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143

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The author's boyhood escapades in his hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi.

Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo

Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo PDF Author: Willie Morris
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ISBN: 9780916242671
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Languages : en
Pages : 164

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The Kudzu That Ate Yazoo City

The Kudzu That Ate Yazoo City PDF Author: William Jenkins
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1594678022
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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Junior Jenkins, influenced by a large family, poverty, faith, and the ever-present kudzu vine, mingles fact, fiction and homegrown wisdom to remember those cotton picking days in Yazoo City, Mississippi.

My Dog Skip

My Dog Skip PDF Author: Willie Morris
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307558169
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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This classic story of a boy, a dog, and small-town America is "a rich experience all around.... Skip turns out to be a dog worth writing about.... I'd take him home in a shot" (The New York Times Book Review). In 1943 in a sleepy town on the banks of the Yazoo River, a boy fell in love with a puppy with a lively gait and an intelligent way of listening. The two grew up together having the most wonderful adventures. My Dog Skip belongs on the same shelf as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Russell Baker's Growing Up. It will enchant readers of all ages for years to come. A major motion picture form Warner Brothers, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and "Eddie" from the TV show Frasier (as Skip), and produced by Mark Johnson (Rain Man).

Conversations with Willie Morris

Conversations with Willie Morris PDF Author: Willie Morris
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578062379
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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In this first collection of interviews and profiles devoted to author Willie Morris, Bales compiles 25 fascinating and incisive conversations (some never before published) with a man who confronted the turbulent issues of his generation.

Never Too Late

Never Too Late PDF Author: Bobby Delaughter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074322339X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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In June 12, 1963, Mississippi's fast-rising NAACP leader Medgar Evers was gunned down by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith. Beckwith escaped conviction twice at the hands of all-white Southern juries, and his crime went unpunished for more than three decades. Now, from Bobby DeLaughter, one of the most celebrated prosecutors in modern American law, comes the blistering account of his remarkable crusade in 1994 finally to bring the assassin of Medgar Evers to justice. This is the fascinating, real-life story of the assistant district attorney -- played by Alec Baldwin in Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi -- who brought closure to one of the darkest chapters of the civil rights movement. When the district attorney's office in Jackson, Mississippi, decided to reopen the case, the obstacles in its way were overwhelming: missing court records; transcripts that were more than thirty years old; original evidence that had been lost; new testimony that had to be taken regarding long-ago events; and the perception throughout the state that a reprosecution was a futile endeavor. But step by painstaking step, DeLaughter and his team overcame the obstacles and built their case. With taut prose that reads like a great detective thriller, Never Too Late is a page-turner of the very highest order. It charts the course of a country lawyer who, concerned about the collective soul of his community and the nature of American justice in general, dared to revisit a thirty-one-year-old case -- one so incendiary that everyone warned him not to touch it -- and win a long-overdue conviction. DeLaughter's success in this trial stands today as a landmark in the annals of criminal prosecution, and this bracing first-person account brings the saga to life as never before.

Read All about It!

Read All about It! PDF Author: Jim Trelease
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140146555
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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A treasury of fifty sensational read-aloud pieces for young adults. From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to Maniac Magee, sci-fi to op-ed, “Casey at the Bat” to a moving true story about the reunion of two Holocaust survivors, this wonderfully diverse collection of excerpts from newspapers, magazines, and books has been created by Jim Trelease especially to turn young people on to the many pleasures of reading. Here are thought-provoking columns from Mike Royko and Pete Hamill; excerpts from classics like To Kill a Mockingbird and “Rikki-tikki-tavi”; autobiographical sketches by Maya Angelou, Moss Hart, and others, highlighting the importance of reading in their lives; and much more. With selections representing many different cultures, genres, writing styles, and interests, Read All About It! is a wonderful introduction to the riches of literature and to a lifetime of reading.

The Last of the Southern Girls

The Last of the Southern Girls PDF Author: Willie Morris
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807119563
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Carol Hollywell is beautiful, smart, elegant, and charming. A debutante from De Soto Point, Arkansas, and a recent graduate of Ole Miss, she is heir to a good southern name and a small southern fortune. She knows what she wants and, more important, knows how to get it. She is, in other words, the prototypical southern belle, a Scarlett O’Hara for the 1950s, and when she moves to Washington, D.C., in 1957, she sets the town on its ear. Willie Morris’ cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed novel (loosely based on a real-life figure) follows this headstrong woman from her arrival at the Capital and traces the ups and downs of her life in the political and social whirl of the city over the next decade and a half. Eventually, she becomes romantically involved with a prominent congressman—an idealist, a reformer, a man perhaps headed for the very pinnacle of political life. It is at first a dazzling alliance, yet the genuine satisfactions they find in their relationship cannot long withstand the pressures of the ambitions both of them harbor. The very drives that initially brought them together in the end propel their love affair into jeopardy. Morris paints a devastatingly accurate portrait not only of a power-hungry woman but also of the society that feeds such hunger. His descriptions of Washington and its denizens—the politicos, the journalists, the socialites, and the hangers-on—are nothing short of breathtaking.