"Prophet from Plains" covers Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jimmy Carter's major achievements and setbacks in light of what has been at once his greatest asset and flaw: his stubborn, faith-driven integrity. Carter's remarkable postpresidency is still in the making; however, he has already redefined the role for all who follow him.Frye Gaillard, who ...
Cradle of Freedom puts a human face on the story of the black American struggle for equality in Alabama during the 1960s. While exceptional leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, John Lewis, and others rose up from the ranks and carved their places in history, the burden of the movement was not ...
"With Music and Justice for All" is a collection of Frye Gaillard's most compelling work, one writer's odyssey though a time and place. There are stories here of the civil rights movement, a moral, social and political upheaval that changed the South in so many ways. Gaillard has captured the essence of that drama by giving it a face - telling the ...
They are still the forgotten people of America, but the Native American tribes of the South and the East are writing new chapters in their people's history, and in that history every tribe is different. Each has its own story, its own intermingling of triumph and struggle and difficult problems that remain to be solved. Bibliography and index. 60 ...
Begun in 1965 by Millard Fuller, a wealthy Alabama businessman, Habitat for Humanity has become one of America's greatest success stories. In the mid-1980s, former president Jimmy Carter became an active member of Habitat, leading armies of volunteers on house-building blitzes. By the end of 1995, Habitat had built more than 40,000 homes, housing ...
This anthology celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Novello Festival of Reading, one of the premier literary events in the country. All of the writers in the book have appeared at Novello, which is sponsored by the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, named National Library of the Year in 1995. This diverse collection of prose ...
Behind-the-scenes on the stock car racing circuit with Kyle Petty, son of legend Richard Petty. Gaillard recounts the dynamic history of this three-generation racing dynasty, intertwining it with the daily goings-on in the pit and the track. A colorful, informative account of today's hottest sport. Photos.
This insider's account of the fastest-growing sport in America recounts the dynamic history of three generations of the Petty family's racing dynasty, along with the daily goings-on in the pit and on the track. This edition features updated appendices and stats. 16 pages of photos, 8 pages in color.
"Watermelon Wine was a groundbreaking look at country music when first published 25 years ago. This new edition features a new introduced by Peter Cooper and an afterword by the author.
This book offers a touching and heroic portrait of two Alabama Gulf Coast communities. The Gulf Coast villages of Bayou La Batre and Coden are two of Alabama's most distinctive, with roots going back to the French settlements of the 18th century. For generations, the proud inhabitants of these communities have extracted their modest livings from ...
Describes the life of the chimpanzee that was sent into space as part of the American space program, describing his capture, training, the actual flight, and his life afterwards.
A journalist with deep Southern roots probes the issues that prompted battles -- race, politics and religion chief among them and -- brings us close to some of the people who fought them.
"The Dream Long Deferred" tells the fifty-year story of the landmark struggle for the desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the present state of the city's public school system. Gaillard, who covered school integration for the Charlotte Observer, updates his earlier 1988 and 1999 editions of this work to examine the difficult ...
In small towns across the South, semi-professional baseball leagues offer a glimpse of the game that was once the American pastime in real life rather than on television. These mostly black leagues have a remarkable impact on their local communities. Two years ago, photographer Byron Baldwin and writer Frye Gaillard began following one of the ...
Charlotte, North Carolina, has developed a national reputation as a banker's town, a place where business deals are made. But as this anthology makes clear, another side to the city's life -- a rich literary heritage -- grows stronger with the years. Charlotte is the place where Carson McCullers wrote The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, where W. J. Cash ...
Beginning in the S.C. Lowcountry with Capt. Peter Gailliard, who fought in the Revolutionary War, the author traces his family through the major events of Southern history -- the Civil War, Reconstruction and the Civil Rights revolution -- to show how a family's identity was forged by challenge and hardship. A powerful memoir which is sure to ...
Few writers have probed so deeply into the heart and soul of the South as has Frye Gaillard, and few have laid this complex region so bare for all to see and understand. In this collection of incongrous characters whose hearts are deeply rooted in what the South was, is and could be, Gailliard again shows why the South still stirs such deep ...
They range in age from nine to fifteen, and already they have seen the hard side of life. Two have been raped. One has seen his own mother killed. But the photographers whose work is collected here clearly have and eye for happiness and beauty. They are children, after all, and most of their pictures are images of hope. The best of their powerful ...
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