A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's account of making his way in the world, from a humble beginning in poverty-stricken rural Alabama to international fame as a "New York Times" reporter.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg was born a year after his maternal grandfather died in 1958, but resurrects him here, in this portrait of the grandfather he never knew. Researching the life of this much-loved patriarch brings Bragg to the Appalachian foothills, and back in time to a South that is no more.
The final volume in the beloved family saga that began with "All Over butthe Shoutin'" and continued with "Ava's Man, The Prince of Frogtown" is a revelatory book about fatherhood, a perfect gift for Dad.
In this collection of more than 60 of his published articles from the New York Times and elsewhere, Bragg relates stories that made headlines everywhere, such as the Oklahoma City bombing or the Susan Smith murder/kidnapping scandal, but he also tells stories of people who live beneath the media's radar, such a graveyard worker in charge of ...
This autobiography recounts how Bragg, brought up in poverty in the deep South, ended up a Pulitzer Prize-winning report for the "New York Times". The book is an account of growing up in an impoverished, ragged white Alabama family - poor to the point that even "nigras" would bring them food. He writes of his deprived yet hilarious childhood in ...
In this volume, award-winning journalist Bragg details the attack, capture, injuries, and imprisonment of Private First Class Jessica Lynch, and her subsequent release. Traveling across Iraq with her unit during the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of that country, Lynch was captured and held by Iraqi forces, then removed from the hospital by American ...
Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 in 21 Days is the perfect guide to learn the intricacies of the latest version of SQL Server. With the new "database-driven" focus that is becoming more important for businesses today, it is essential that you be able to provide efficient results for your endusers. This hands-on tutorial will take you from ...
Though usually plain, sometimes humble, wooden churches are something special. With no fancy accoutrements - the flying buttresses, the mountains of organ pipe, the marble floors, the windows of stained glass - wooden churches distinguish themselves through the people who built them, the people who preach in them, and the place they assume in the ...
Award-winning photographer Ken Elkins captures indelibly the lives and landscapes of rural Alabama in this book. This collection of 100 haunting, sometimes humorous, but always deeply honest black-and-white photographs reveals the 42-year career of a master photographer and photojournalist. Ken Elkins retired as chief photographer of the "Anniston ...
In spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills came to the edge of all they had ever been. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill survived. The century-old hardwood floors still trembled under ...
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