{"product_id":"the-southernization-of-america-a-story-of-democracy-in-the-balance-9781588384560","title":"The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance","description":"In 1974 John Egerton published his seminal work, \u003cem\u003eThe Americanization of Dixie\u003c\/em\u003e. Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard carry Egerton's thesis forward in \u003cem\u003eThe Southernization of America\u003c\/em\u003e, a compelling series of linked essays considering the role of the South in shaping America's current political and cultural landscape. They dive deeper, examining the morphing of the Southern strategy of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan into the Republican Party of today, the racial backlash against President Obama, family separation on our southern border, the rise of the Christian right, the white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, the death of George Floyd, and the attack on our nation's capitol. They find hope in the South too, a legacy rooted in the civil rights years that might ultimately lead the nation on the path to redemption. Tucker and Gaillard bring a multiracial perspective and years of political reporting to bear on a critical moment in American history, a time of racial reckoning and democracy under siege.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frye Gaillard, Cynthia Tucker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e NewSouth Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781588384560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGaillard, Frye:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eFrye Gaillard\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning journalist with over 30 published works on Southern history and culture, including \u003cem\u003eWatermelon Wine\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eCradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Books That Mattered: A Reader's Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eJourney to the Wilderness: War, Memory, and a Southern Family's Civil War Letters\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eGo South to Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eA Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe Slave Who Went to Congress\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eA Hard Rain\u003c\/em\u003e was selected as one of NPR's Best Books of 2018. Writer-in-residence at the University of South Alabama, he is also John Egerton Scholar in Residence at the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi. He is the winner of the Clarence Cason Award for Nonfiction Writing, the Lillian Smith Book Award, and the Eugene Current-Garcia Award For Distinction in Literary Scholarship. In 2019, Gaillard was awarded the Alabama Governor's Arts Award for his contributions to literature.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTucker, Cynthia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eCynthia Tucker\u003c\/b\u003e is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist who has spent most of her career in journalism, having previously worked for the \u003cem\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/em\u003e as an editorial page editor and as a Washington-based political columnist. She has also been featured as a political commentator on television and radio. Tucker's work as a journalist has been celebrated by the National Association of Black Journalists (who inducted her into its hall of fame), Harvard University, and the Alabama Humanities Foundation. She spent three years as a visiting professor at the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and is currently the journalist-in-residence at the University of South Alabama.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39827441909875,"sku":"9781588384560","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_aaa32c7b-db37-45d6-902a-ea5033b57487.jpg?v=1644568196","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-southernization-of-america-a-story-of-democracy-in-the-balance-9781588384560","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}