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Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs by Guy Carawan 9781588381934
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £17.86Two classic collections of freedom songs, We Shall Overcome (1963) and Freedom Is A Constant Struggle (1968), are reprinted here in a single edition which includes a major new introduction by the... -
From Preaching to Meddling: A White Minister in the Civil Rights Movement by Francis X. Walter 9781588385161
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £16.34In a fascinating memoir, retired Episcopal priest Francis X. Walter shares his journey from the days of the Great Depression in Mobile, Alabama, across decades of Deep South segregation, and into the... -
From Brooklyn to the Olympics: The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn University Track Coach Mel Rosen by Craig Darch
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £18.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDr Craig Darch is the Humana-Sherman-Germany Distinguished Professor of Special Education at Auburn... -
East Florida in the Revolutionary Era, 1763-1785: Britain's Fifteenth Colony by George Kotlik 9781588384720
RRP: £125.95Booksplease Price: £115.92In 1763, Great Britain organized the colony of East Florida—which formed the entirety of what is now the state of Florida east of the Apalachicola River. East Florida is the Revolutionary Era's... -
East Florida in the Revolutionary Era, 1763-1785: Britain's Fifteenth Colony by George Kotlik 9781588385024
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £17.42In 1763, Great Britain organized the colony of East Florida—which formed the entirety of what is now the state of Florida east of the Apalachicola River. East Florida is the Revolutionary Era's... -
Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910 by Julie Hedgepeth Williams
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £16.48From author Julie Hedgepeth Williams, winner of the 2021 Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism HistoryIn 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright opened the first US civilian flight school in... -
Hugo Black's Pocket U.S. Constitution: Keep One on You All the Time' by Steve Suitts
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £6.72Remembered by some as the "most remarkable Supreme Court justice of the twentieth century," Justice Hugo L. Black was an early proponent of a judicial revolution that rebuilt America by expanding... -
They Say the Wind Is Red: The Alabama Choctaw--Lost in Their Own by Jacqueline Matte 9781588380791
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £15.43They Say the Wind Is Red is the moving story of the Choctaw Indians who managed to stay behind when their tribe was relocated in the 1830s. Throughout the 1800s and 1900s, they had to resist the... -
How to Survive the Apocalypse by Jacqueline Allen Trimble
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £15.33How to Survive the Apocalypse, the second collection from poet Jacqueline Allen Trimble, examines the many apocalypses that African Americans have weathered, advising that those who wish to avoid... -
Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America's Revolutionary Era by Mike Bunn 9781588384133
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £18.97The British colony of West Florida—which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what are now the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,... -
My Little Town: A Pilgrim's Portrait of a Uniquely Southern Place by D. B. Tipmore
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £20.14My Little Town turns the Yankee-comes-to-Dixie literary genre outside in, examining Marion, Alabama, through the eyes of someone who should never have been living there and yet found himself there... -
All of the Belles: The Montgomery Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F Scott Fitzgerald 9781588384232
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £19.06During his Roaring Twenties heyday, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote three stories about the belles of Tarleton, Georgia, a setting readers recognized as a thinly veiled version of his wife Zelda Sayre's... -
Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival by Julie Hedgepeth Williams
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £16.00From author Julie Hedgepeth Williams, winner of the 2021 Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism HistoryAlbert and Sylvia Caldwell were one of those rare Titanic families who lived through... -
Blighted: A Story of People, Politics, and an American Housing Miracle by Margaret Stagmeier 9781588384713
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £19.38Blighted is a powerful narrative about the decades-long decay and remarkable two-year reinvention of Summerdale, an aging apartment community located in one of Atlanta’s grittiest corridors. From... -
Mark Twain's Literary Resources: Twain's Collection, Owned and Borrowed (Volume II) by Alan Gribben 9781588383952
RRP: £164.95Booksplease Price: £88.73Dr. Alan Gribben, a foremost Twain scholar, made waves in 1980 with the publication of Mark Twain's Library, a study that exposed for the first time the breadth of Twain's reading and influences... -
Alef-Bet: A Hebrew Alphabet Book by Michelle Edwards
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.70Hebrew is a very, very old language. It was spoken in ancient Israel many thousands of years ago, and has been kept alive for centuries by Jews and scholars. Modern Hebrew was the dream and work of a... -
A War of Sections: How Deep South Political Suppression Shaped Voting Rights in America by Steve Suitts 9781588384911
RRP: £125.95Booksplease Price: £102.32In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement, Steve Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in Alabama came to shape both some of America’s best achievements in... -
East of Texas, West of Hell by Rod Davis 9781588384164
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £16.68The latest from prose stylist and accomplished novelist Rod Davis exposes the dark underbelly and underground economies of God's country. A desperate call from heiress Elle Meridian shakes ex-Dallas... -
A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost by Frye Gaillard 9781588385154
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £21.10There are many different ways to remember the sixties," Frye Gaillard writes, "and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced... -
Eugene Bullard: World's First Black Fighter Pilot by Larry Greenly 9781588383266
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £11.18A Booklist "Top 10 Multicultural Nonfiction for Youth" SelectionFinalist for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Southwest Region Crystal Kite AwardWinner of the 2016 Young Adult... -
Wings of Denial: The Alabama Air National Guard's Covert Role at the Bay of Pigs by Warren A Trest
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £16.38After nearly four decades of government denial, the deeds of four Alabama Air National Guardsmen who died at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 have been made public and their names memorialized at the CIA's... -
The South Never Plays Itself: A Film Buff’s Journey Through the South on Screen by Ben Beard 9781588384010
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £23.86Since The Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915, movies have struggled to reckon with the American South-as both a place and an idea, a reality and a romance, a lived... -
American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World by Christina Proenza-Coles
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £17.14American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements,... -
The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement by Bob Zellner 9781588383945
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £16.98Winner of the 2009 Lillian Smith Book AwardEven forty years after the civil rights movement, the transition from son and grandson of Klansmen to field secretary of SNCC seems quite a journey. In the... -
Hunter: The Yukon Gold Rush Letters of Robert Hunter Fitzhugh, Jr., 1897-1900 by Ann C Carmichael 9781588383372
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £15.23Hunter Fitzhugh left St. Louis in 1897 dreaming of fortune and adventure, bound for the Yukon Territory, where it was rumored that nuggets of gold simply littered the ground, waiting to make a man... -
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald by William Alsup
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £23.18The assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby robbed the nation of the closure it so desperately needed following the death of John F. Kennedy. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald asks what might... -
A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost by Frye Gaillard
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £27.95An NPR Best Book of 2018A 2021 Alabama Library Association Author Award WinnerFrye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in... -
Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories: From Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi by Kathryn Tucker Windham 9781588384317
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £13.38This is the first anthology of the author's own favorite ghost stories from the highly successful Jeffrey series of books that began in 1969 with 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. Hundreds of thousands... -
The Making of a Philosopher-King: Selected Speeches of Omo N'Oba Erediauwa, CFR., Oba of Benin by T. I. Akenzua 9781588383679
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £17.47This book presents to the world and posterity the workings of a great mind, a great Philosopher-King who was called the Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Erediauwa, CFR, Oba of Benin. It will... -
Of Goats & Governors: Six Decades of Colorful Alabama Political Stories by Steve Flowers 9781588383860
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £17.27Few states have as colorful a political history as Alabama, especially in the post-World War II era. During the past six decades, the state played a central role in the civil rights movement, largely... -
More Than Peanuts: The Unlikely Partnership of Tom Huston and George Washington Carver by Edith Powell 9781588384461
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £16.88The further we go the bigger it gets and the more interesting. I don't know what we would have done without you." So wrote Bob Barry, a White executive with the Tom Huston Peanut Company, to George... -
Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies, and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham's Civil Rights Days by T K Thorne
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £21.83Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies, and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham's Civil Rights Days is a remarkable look at a historic city enmeshed in racial tensions, revealing untold or forgotten... -
The Meanest Man in Congress: Jack Brooks and the Making of an American Century by Timothy McNulty
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £28.74The meanest man in Congress was also the most successful in terms of passing legislation and bi-partisan leadership. The story of Jack Brooks's colorful life and accomplishments, including his... -
Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter by Dan T. Carter 9781588384812
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £23.96Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the... -
From Vacillation to Resolve by Julian McPhillips 9781588383815
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £12.55From Vacillation to Resolve tells the little-known story of the French Communist Party's role in the Resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II. Author Julian McPhillips Jr. researched... -
She: The Old Woman Who Took Over My Life by Kathryn Tucker Windham 9781588383730
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £10.28This slender book, the last of twenty-nine written by Kathryn Tucker Windham over her long and productive life, will be an exquisitely bittersweet read for the many fans of the late storyteller and... -
The Tuskegee Airmen, an Illustrated History: 1939-1949 by MR Joseph D Caver 9781588382443
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £23.19Many documentaries, articles, museum exhibits, books, and movies have now treated the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen, the only black American military pilots in World War II. Most of these works have... -
The Meanest and 'damnest' Job: Being the Civil War Exploits and Civilian Accomplishments of Colonel Edmund Winchester Rucker During and After the War by Michael P Rucker
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £21.78Most Civil War histories focus on the performance of top-level generals. However, it was the individual officers below them who actually led the troops to enact the orders. Some of these were... -
Drifting Into Darkness: Murders, Madness, Suicide, and a Death Under Suspicious Circumstances by Mark I Pinsky 9781588384577
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £20.97A tangled web of family dysfunction, fatal attraction, and greed wends its way from the elegant Southern mansions of old Montgomery, Alabama, to the New Age salons of Boulder and rural, windswept... -
Afternoons with Harper Lee by Wayne Flynt
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £15.87Imagine sitting with an esteemed writer on his or her front porch somewhere in the world and swapping life stories. Dr. Wayne Flynt got the opportunity to do just this with Nelle Harper Lee. In a...