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1	Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue more books like this by John Shelton Reed, Dale Volberg Reed, Will McKinney add to wishlist This is the definitive guide to the people, recipes, and lore.North Carolina is home to the longest continuous barbecue tradition on the North American mainland. Authoritative, spirited, and opinionated (in the best way), "Holy Smoke" is a passionate exploration of the lore, recipes, traditions, and people who have helped shape North Carolina's ... see all copies from $17.94! new only from $19.91! \| first editions \| SVS
2	1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the South more books like this by John Shelton Reed, Shelton, Dale Volberg Reed add to wishlist A catalogue of noteworthy Southern things, from Robert E. Lee to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Moon Pies to kudzu. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Whistling Dixie: Dispatches from the South more books like this by John Shelton Reed add to wishlist A witty and sometimes outrageous collection of essays presenting one Southerner's viewpoint about what makes the South the South. As the Washington Post said, "Reed knows his region intimately, probably as well as anyone around, and manages the impressive feat of regarding it both seriously and lightly". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Southern Folk, Plain & Fancy: Native White Social Types more books like this by John Shelton Reed add to wishlist Creating a sort of periodic table of the southern populace, "Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy" catalogs and describes the several social types--gentleman and lady, "lord of the lash" and cunning belle, fun-loving "good old boy," depraved redneck, and other figures--that have animated the region since antebellum times. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Enduring South: Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society more books like this by John Shelton Reed add to wishlist First published in 1972, The Enduring South challenges the conventional wisdom that economic development, urbanization, and the end of racial segregation spelled the end of a distinctive Southern culture. In this new edition, John Reed updates the public opinion data to the 1980s and reinforces the book's original conclusions: Southerners are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.83! \| first editions \| SVS
6	My Tears Spoiled My Aim: And Other Reflections on Southern Culture more books like this by John Shelton Reed add to wishlist With characteristic tongue-in-cheek wit, Reed tackles the questions, Just what is "the South" today? Where is it? Why are Southerners so devoted to it? Instructional maps include "Where Kudzu Grows" and "States Mentioned in Country Music Lyrics." see all copies from $2.17! new only from $4.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	My Tears Spoiled My Aim and Other Reflections on Southern Culture: And Other Reflections on Southern Culture more books like this by John Shelton Reed add to wishlist The Kansas City Star calls John Shelton Reed "an H. L. Mencken of Dixie." "A writer this funny is dangerous, " says the Raleigh News and Observer. Here Reed is in peak form as he takes a hard, often humorous look at a region he claims has created its own quasi-ethnic group: the American Southerner. Is the South changing? You bet, says Reed. ... see all copies from $2.30! new only from $14.69! \| first editions
8	One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture more books like this by John Shelton Reed add to wishlist In the informal, engaging essays brought together in ONE SOUTH, John Shelton Reed focuses on the South's strong regional identity and on the persistence, well into the last decades of the twentieth century, of Southern cultural distinctiveness. Reed argues that Southerners are similar in much the same way that members of an ethnic group are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	1001 Things Everyone Should Know/South more books like this by John Shelton Reed, Dale Volberg Reed add to wishlist A catalogue of noteworthy Southern things, from Robert E. Lee to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Moon Pies to kudzu. see all copies from $4.23! new only from $15.00!
10	Kicking Back: Further Dispatches from the South more books like this by John Shelton Reed add to wishlist A humorous exploration of the cultural differences between the American South and North. The book looks at subjects ranging from manners, and religion to chain-stores and the treatment of pets. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $20.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Townways of Kent more books like this by Ralph C Patrick, Jr., John Shelton Reed (Editor), Dale Volberg Reed (Editor) add to wishlist Emersion into the society of York was an easy task for Patrick, a native of a nearby Gastonia, North Carolina, and with familial ties to York's elite. But his personal connections proved to be a mixed blessing to the project. His informants were more forthcoming than they might have been with an outsider, but Patrick felt so deep an obligation to ... see all copies from $16.55! new only from $20.04! \| SVS
12	Enduring Effects of Education more books like this by Herbert H. Hyman, Charles R. Wright (Editor), John S. Reed (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
13 view cover	Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing more books like this by Dale Volberg Reed (Editor), John Shelton Reed (Editor), John T Edge (Editor) add to wishlist This new collection in the Southern Foodways Alliance's popular series serves up a fifty-three-course celebration of southern foods, southern cooking, and the people and traditions behind them. Editors Dale Volberg Reed and John Shelton Reed have combed magazines, newspapers, books, and journals to bring us a "best of" gathering that is certain to ... see all copies from $3.25! new only from $16.95!
14 view cover	Millways of Kent more books like this by Dan Huntley (Introduction by), John Kenneth Morland (Commentaries by), John Shelton Reed (Preface by) add to wishlist This is a compelling portrait of life in a Southern Piedmont mill village after the Great Depression.Morland's skill as an oral historian and his respect for blue-collar subjects allow him to describe the cotton mill workers of York as sympathetic, three-dimensional human beings, something a bit more than even their insular white neighbors in the ... see all copies from $16.55! new only from $20.34! \| SVS
15	Southern Humor by Harry L Watson (Editor), John Shelton Reed (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
16	Southerners: The Social Psychology of Sectionalism more books like this by John Shelton Reed add to wishlist see all copies from $7.87! new only from $13.99!
17 view cover	Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism more books like this by John Shelton Reed add to wishlist An account of how the Anglo-Catholic movement in the Victorian Church of England overcame vehement opposition to establish itself as a legitimate form of Anglicanism. It should be useful to students and scholars of history, social and religious movements and Victorian literature. see all copies from $10.98! new only from $45.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Minding the South more books like this by John Shelton Reed add to wishlist For more than thirty years John Shelton Reed has been "minding" the South - watching over it, providing commentary upon it. He is the author or editor of thirteen books about the South, and despite his disclaimer regarding formal study of Southern history, Reed has read widely and in depth about the South. His primary focus is upon Southerners' ... see all copies from $11.54! new only from $28.91! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Beech Mountain Man: The Memoirs of Ronda Lee Hicks more books like this by Thomas Burton, John Shelton Reed (Foreword by) add to wishlist Ronda Lee Hicks, as the traditional song goes, is "a man you don't meet every day." Hailing from the Beech Mountain area of western North Carolina, Ronda is the offspring of the two families of great storytellers who are largely responsible for the area's strong storytelling tradition of the International Wonder Tales of Jack. And his late cousin ... see all copies from $14.95! new only from $22.94! \| first editions \| SVS
20	Regionalism and the South: Selected Papers of Rupert Vance by John Shelton Et Al Reed add to wishlist In the decades before the Civil War, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten or discredit their opponents. According to Elizabeth Varon, "disunion" was a startling and provocative keyword in Americans' political vocabulary: it connoted the failure of the founders' singular effort to establish a ... see all copies from $20.00! first editions

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