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table of contents

Song of the Vagabond Bird ...................1terry Kay

Glimmerglass ..........................................2Marly Youmans

Sweetwater Blues ...................................3Raymond l. atkins

Save My Place ...........................................4olivia debelle byrd

On the Old Plaza ......................................5catharine savage brosman

Blessed Assurance ..................................6Marion castleberry

It is Written ...................................................... 7Philip lee Williams

The Best of Bob Steed ............................8Robert l. steed; with chuck Perry

To Make a Difference ............................9scott Walker

Rebel Yell ..............................................10Michael buffalo smith

Charles “Lefty” Driesell ........................11f. Martin Harmon

Farming, Friends, and Fried Bologna Sandwiches ...........................................12

Renea Winchester

The CEO as Urban Statesman .................13sam a. Williams

Cosmic Defiance ...................................14David crowe

The Divine Madness of Romantic Ideals ....................................................15

Kevin Hoffman

series Page ............................................16

IKC: Vol. 6 Fear and Trembling and RepetitionIKC: Vol. 8 The Concept of AnxietyIKC: Vol. 13 The Corsair Affair .............17

Robert l. Perkins, series editor

Tigers in the Tempest ..........................18f. erik brooks

In Subjection .........................................19Jessica Madison

J. n. Griffith baptist series Page ..........20

Selected Spiritual Writings of Anne Dutton, Vol. 7: Words of Grace ...........21

Joann ford Watson

Surviving the Stained-Glass Jungle .....22William l. self

civil War & History backlist ...........23–24

Cracker Cavaliers ..................................25John Randolph Poole

Mississippi Civil War .............................25ben Wynne

Recent Releases ..............................26–28

On the front cover: Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia

From the Director

Dear Reader,

Everywhere I go I take a book with me. Thoreau’s Walden and Plato’s Last Days of Socrates rest in a pocket on the back of the driver’s seat of my car. If traffic is ever brought to a complete halt, they are there to occupy my mind. Usually, two or three other books can also be found somewhere on the backseat waiting to be read.

Whenever eating alone, I take a book. The folks at Satterfield’s (a local BBQ restaurant) know I want a small table, a pitcher of tea, and good lighting. Of course, the book stays behind when eating out with my wife, because she is more interesting than any book. But when I am alone, or I go to a meeting or the cinema and arrive early, I always take a book and get in some extra reading. While reading in a certain chair or on the porch or patio is nice—and reading in bed is a great way to prepare the body for sleep—reading for an extra five or ten minutes is very enticing. Instead of wasting those minutes worrying about the meeting or whether the food is being prepared correctly, I am able to turn my thoughts somewhere other than the busyness of the day.

If you don’t do this, consider giving it a try. If you are not sure what book to choose, we have a few suggestions. As Mercer University Press celebrates its 35th anniversary this year we are nearing 1,400 titles published and have sold well over one million copies in our history. In these pages and on our website, a wonderful assortment of titles and authors await. Buy a few and give some away; and find one or two to keep in your car.

Marc Jolley

When he arrives on Neal’s Island to begin ten days of intensive group therapy to treat his obsession for a woman he cannot forget, he brings with him the pseudonym of Bloodworth. Pseudonyms are a requirement to participate in Dr. Carson X. Willingham’s unconventional and often bizarre seminars—a deliberate lie to inspire the search for a needed truth. What he discovers is an island of ghosts, an island of intense, but fragile, relationships founded on deceit, and, yet, an island strangely harboring the yearned-for promise of healing. The same is true for Barkeep, Menlo, Max, and Godsick—his fellow members in the seminar, each with his own pseudonym and each suffering his own agony because of a relationship with a woman. Vastly different as individuals, yet suffering the same crippling malady of obsession, the five are not prepared for the antics of Carson X. Willingham. He is maverick and madman, a brilliant investigator of his subjects, a mesmerizing performer, and either a genius or a charlatan with a rare gift of persuasion. Willingham is also a man with his own demons, caused by his own history of obsession. It is in this environment that Bloodworth finds himself faced with the delicate question of honesty as he tries to free the memory of his Kalee, and begin his new journey into the uncertainty of what might be.

Terry Kay, a member of the Georgia

Writers Hall of Fame, is the author of

fourteen works of fiction, including To

Dance with the White Dog, The Book

of Marie, The Greats of Cuttercane,

Shadow Song, The Runaway, The Year

the Lights Came On, and a recent book

for young readers, The Seventh Mirror.

Learn more about this award-winning

writer at www.terrykay.com.

Song of the Vagabond Bird

Terry Kay

Also available as an e-book

o t H e r t I t l e s f r o M t e r r y K a y

The Seventh Mirror

Terry KayHardback | $16.00t | H874

978-0-88146-452-8e-book | $12.00t | H874e

978-0-88146-456-6

The Greats of CuttercaneTerry KayHardback | $22.00t | H827978-0-88146-249-4e-book | $19.00t | H827e978-0-88146-250-0

Bogmeadow’s Wish

Terry KayHardback | $26.00t | H821

978-0-88146-230-2e-book | $19.00t | H821

978-0-88146-247-0

The Book of MarieTerry KayHardback | $23.00t | H742978-0-88146-082-7

A story of obsession and the search for truth and healing

SepTeMBer 2014 | FiCTion

5.75 x 8.75 | 325 pp. | Hardback, $26.00t | 978-0-88146-481-8 | H888

e-book, $22.00 | 978-0-88146-497-9 | H888e

69 www.mupress .org 866-895-1472New Release 1

Marly Youmans, “A writer of rare

ability” (Baton Rouge Advocate), is

the award-winning author of a dozen

books. Recent works include A Death at

the White Camellia Orphanage, called

“the finest and the truest period novel

I’ve read in years” by the late Lucius

Shephard; and Thaliad, hailed as “a work

of genius,” “amazing, mesmerizing”

by novelist Lee Smith. A native of the

Carolinas, Youmans now lives near the

mouth of the Susquehanna with her

husband and three children. Discover

more about her at www.thepalaceat2.

blogspot.com.

Perhaps it was a sense of estrangement from the everyday that drew Cynthia sorrel to the village of Cooper Patent. the failed painter was lured by the gatehouse with its seven doors, the lake with its tower, and the magical air of a place that couldn’t quite decide whether it was fictional, mythic, or real. the gatehouse should have been a first clue that she was on a journey, and soon she begins to glimpse and then to pursue a figure in the woods near her house, convinced she has seen the Muse.

as she reclaims her calling as a painter and moves deeper into the uncanny world of Cooper Patent, Cynthia finds herself at the heart of a labyrinth of mystery. she will have to navigate its dream depths and secrets, brilliant or dark, locked behind a door that opens into the earth.

sébastien Doubinsky writes, “I cannot recommend an author more than Marly youmans, whose fantastic prose is absolutely gorgeous and haunting.” Now this “best-kept secret among contemporary american writers” (Books & Culture) has scaled the tree of books and plucked twigs of gothic romance, ghost tale, medieval dream vision, and belated coming-of-age story, with a leaf or two from the novel of manners and fantasy. the transformed result, Glimmerglass, is a gift to literature like no other.

Glimmerglassa Novel

Marly Youmans

“A tale of gorgeous prose and terrifying romance” —Jeffrey Beam, poet and author of The Broken Flower and Gospel Earth


5.75 x 8.75 | 224 pp. | Hardback, $24.00t | 978-0-88146-491-7 | H896

2 MerCer uNIVersIt y Press fall/WINter 2014 New Release

A Death at the White Camellia

orphanageMarly Youmans

Hardback | $24.00t | H837978-0-88146-271-5

Paperback | $18.00t | P467978-0-88146-446-7

e-book | $14.00 | H837e978-0-88146-364-4

The Throne of psychepoemsMarly YoumansHardback | $30.00t | H826978-0-88146-246-3Paperback | $18.00t | P422978-0-88146-232-6

The pope’s GuestA novel

Vladimir Volkoff†;translated by

John Marson DunawayPaperback | $24.00t | P471

978-0-88146-453-5e-book | $21.00 | P471e

978-0-88146-457-3

Mirror’s FathomSheridan HoughHardback | $28.00t | H861978-0-88146-401-6e-book | $28.00 | H861e978-0-88146-4207

t I t l e s o f I N t e r e s t

Rodney Earwood and Palmer Cray had been best friends for as long as either could remember. They were brothers in all but the genetic sense, each born late in the lives of good women who had given up on the dream of motherhood by the time their respective miracles occurred. They wandered the hills of North Georgia, hunted the pine woods, fished the cool, green streams, and camped under the stars. They shared each other’s clothing, each other’s families, and each other’s homes. They grew into tall young men, and on a hot May afternoon right after they turned eighteen, they both graduated from sweetwater High school, numbers seven and eight in the crooked, sweaty line that held a class of thirty of sweetwater’s finest. shortly thereafter, rodney and Palmer flew a Camaro into a tree, Palmer flew into a haystack, rodney flew into the great beyond, and nothing in sweetwater was ever the same again. follow Palmer in the aftermath of his one great mistake as he confronts regret at his own fallibility, endures punishment for his actions, finds unexpected redemption in unusual places, and is given a second chance to try to make it all right. He is joined in this journey by an unlikely cast of associates—including a methamphetamine dealer named Cheddar, a junkyard owner named ottis lee, a coffee-can addict named Bay-annette, and an alzheimer’s patient who was once rodney’s mother—as they face each day and try to overcome their sweetwater Blues.

raymond L. Atkins resides in Rome,

Georgia, where he is an instructor

of English at Georgia Northwestern

Technical College. His first novel, The

Front Porch Prophet, was released in

2008 and received the Georgia Author

of the Year Award. His second novel,

Sorrow Wood, was released in 2009,

and Camp Redemption, Atkins’s third

novel, was awarded the 2011 Ferrol

Sams Award for Fiction by Mercer

University Press. Learn more about him

at www.raymondlatkins.com.

Sweetwater Blues

a Novel

Raymond L. Atkins



A young man’s journey of loss, regret, faith, hope, and ultimate redemption in the hills of North Georgia


5.75 x 8.75 | 350 pp. | Paperback, $18.00t | 978-0-88146-507-5 | P495

e-book, $14.00 | 978-0-88146-508-2 | P495e


Camp redemptionA novel

Raymond L. AtkinsHardback | $25.00t | H864

978-0-88146-426-9e-book | $25.00 | H864e

978-0-88146-428-3

A plot for pridemoreA novelStephen RothPaperback | $20.00t | P484978-0-88146-482-5e-book | $16.00 | P484e978-0-88146-488-7

Mother of rainA novel

Karen Spears ZachariasPaperback | $17.00t | P469

978-0-88146-448-1e-book | $13.00 | P469e

978-0-88146-450-4

Washed in the BloodA novelLisa AltherHardback | $26.00t | H832978-0-88146-257-9e-book | $20.00 | H832e978-0-88146-345-3

olivia deBelle Byrd is the third

generation of her family to call Panama

City, Florida, home where she resides

with her husband, Tommy. Byrd

has a penchant for turning ordinary

happenings into entertainment. The

result was her first book of humorous

essays, Miss Hildreth Wore Brown:

Anecdotes of a Southern Belle, winner

of the Florida Publishers Association

Book Awards. Learn more about her at

www.oliviadebellebyrd.com.

Blessed with an innate optimism and a magical childhood, elisabeth Belle sterling discovers that the path to happily-ever-after love is not as easily obtained as she had always imagined. The Camelot-like love she longs for seems like only a dream until she meets the handsome Kincaid Patterson, a West Point graduate who carries a dark secret from his past. Theirs is a passionate and unconditional love that has to confront a painful past, heart-searing separation, and the greatest of all tragedies. But the biggest obstacle is the loss of faith that threatens to undermine all that they have. Save My Place is a beautifully written love story of two people who search deep within their souls to save each other.

Save My Placea Novel

Olivia deBelle Byrd


A love story set in the South during the 1960s and 70s against the backdrop of the Vietnam War


5 x 8 | 192 pp. | Paperback, $15.00t | 978-0-88146-501-3 | P493

e-book, $11.00 | 978-0-88146-503-7 | P493e



in pursuitA novel

Sharman Burson RamseyPaperback | $20.00t | P473

978-0-88146-454-2e-book | $16.00 | P473e

978-0-88146-458-0

Swimming with SerpentsSharman Burson RamseyHardback | $26.00t | H854978-0-88146-391-0e-book | $26.00 | H854e978-0-88146-379-8

The Curious Vision of Sammy Levitt

and other Stories Cliff Graubart

Hardback | $26.00t | H857978-0-88146-395-8

e-book | $26.00 | H857e978-0-88146-375-0

Stormy Weather & other StoriesLisa AltherHardback | $24.00t | H851978-0-88146-386-6e-book| $24.00 | H851e978-0-88146-366-8

In her tenth collection, Catharine Savage Brosman’s singular voice is heard again as she develops themes featured in her earlier work and adds new ones, displaying her full range of poetic craftsmanship and style and, as one critic wrote, using “metaphors brilliantly fitted in detail to the moods and workings of the human heart and mind.” a prefatory poem, “to readers,” uses the figure of trees to emphasize the truth, beauty, mystery, and autonomy of poetry.

yet it is clear that in Brosman’s work the art of verse is closely connected to human experience, the very feel of which comes through in the poems that follow. The title poem, set in New Mexico, evokes happy moments, good taste in food and art, and serenity, as “all, even regret, [is] silvered in the sunlight and the shade.” “a late summer Idyll” reinforces that happiness with images of mountains shimmering in september haze, “new currencies of color,” and the joys of love.

But the note of regret, implied from the outset, surfaces in depictions of the smoky sky over a forest fire. Death presents itself in evocations of a man’s last night, a dog soon to die, a botched suicide, and graveyards. figures connected to wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including empress eugénie of france, appear in elegiac or dramatic poems. The theme of art and its relationship to human striving has a major place, in poems featuring musicians, painters, poets, and dancers. a group of short satiric poems in rhymed tetrameter recalls eighteenth-century satiric verse. finally, a sequence of twenty poems, “a Voyager’s Journal,” recreates in varying forms the sights and experiences of traveling in south america. The concluding poem, “sunset,” honors Monet and returns to the serene mode of earlier poems in the collection.

Catharine Savage Brosman, who

lives in Houston, is professor emerita

of French at Tulane University and

honorary research professor at the

University of Sheffield (England). She

currently serves as poetry editor for

Chronicles: A Magazine of American

Culture. Brosman is the author or editor

of numerous books on French literature.

On the Old Plaza

Poems

Catharine Savage Brosman


on the north Slope

poemsCatharine Savage

BrosmanPaperback | $17.00t | P444

978-0-88146-273-9

BreakwaterpoemsCatharine Savage BrosmanHardback | $30.00t | H797978-0-88146-180-0Paperback | $18.00t | P391978-0-88146-163-3

Swift Hourpoems

Megan SextonPaperback | $16.00t | P478

978-0-88146-469-6

ConcertinapoemsJoseph BathantiPaperback | $18.00t | P480978-0-88146-470-2

“One of the most accomplished and fully-roundedpoets writing today.” —alex Pepple, Able Muse

oCToBer 2014 | poeTrY

6 x 9 | 144 pp. | Hardback, $25.00t | 978-0-88146-514-3 | H898

6 x 9 | 144 pp. | Paperback, $18.00t | 978-0-88146-496-2 | P491


i Have Told You and Told You

poemsElizabeth Cox

Paperback | $18.00t | P468978-0-88146-447-4

The House Began to pitchpoemsKelly WhiddonPaperback | $16.00t | P453978-0-88146-390-3


Marion Castleberry is professor of Theatre Arts at Baylor University where he teaches graduate courses in directing and performance theory. He holds a PhD in Theatre from Louisiana State University. Castleberry is founding president of the Horton Foote Society, cofounder of the Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival, and serves on the board of directors of the Horton Foote Legacy Project. His 2006 production of Foote’s The Traveling Lady at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for “Best Revival of a Play.” Castleberry is editor of three books on Horton Foote: The Voice of an American Playwright, Genesis of an American Playwright, and Farewell: Remembering Horton Foote.

For more than seventy years, beginning in 1939, when he penned his first play, Wharton Dance, Horton foote was regarded as one of america’s most revered dramatists. With his probing and perceptive dramas, he succeeded in charting the landscape of small-town america while creating classics of modern theatre and film that have found devoted audiences around the world. foote wrote more than a hundred plays and screenplays for cinema, theatre, and television, and was equally successful in all three mediums—a record of variety and productivity unmatched by any other writer. Inspired by his hometown of Wharton, texas, foote wrote timeless tales of family, home, and the mysterious resilience of the human spirit that garnered him dozens of prestigious awards, including an emmy for his adaptation of Old Man, academy awards for To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies, a Pulitzer Prize for The Young Man from Atlanta, as well as a National Medal of arts. Horton foote was, in the words of robert Duvall, the great american voice. With a foreword by Hallie foote, this biography is the most thorough and comprehensive to date of american dramatist Horton foote. Drawing on the author’s complete access to foote’s personal papers and extended conversations with the writer, his family, and his friends, Marion Castleberry discusses all the important aspects of Horton foote’s life and career—his Wharton, texas childhood, his devotion to family, his deep Christian faith, his abiding passion for the theatre, and his successes as a screenwriter and independent filmmaker. While placing foote’s work in biographical context and offering insightful analyses of his works, Castleberry paints a striking portrait of the artist as well as the man.

Blessed AssuranceThe life and art of Horton foote

Marion Castleberry

foreword by Hallie Foote


A comprehensive biography of one of America’s most talented and beloved dramatists

SepTeMBer 2014 | BioGrApHY/THeATre/HiSTorY

6 x 9 | 600 pp. | Hardback, $35.00t | 978-0-88146-505-1 | H892 | Bibliography | Index | Illustrations

The Voice of an American

playwrightinterviews with

Horton FooteGerald C. Wood and Marion Castleberry,

editorsPaperback | $22.00t | P454

978-0-88146-397-2

Searching for edenJohn Steinbeck’s ethical CareerJohn H. TimmermanHardback | $29.00t | H885978-0-88146-478-8

A Comfortable Boy

A MemoirSam Pickering

Hardback | $26.00t | H773 978-0-88146-182-4

The Letters of Austin Warrenedited and Selected, with an introduction and notesGeorge Panichas, editorHardback | $55.00t | H819978-0-88146-220-3

Filled with colorful details and rich with photographs of the author’s life, It Is Written is a beautifully written page-turner about how one person turns the raw materials of life into art. over a thirty-year career as a published author of fiction, poetry, and essays, Philip lee Williams has become one of the south’s most-honored writers. from his first published novel in 1984 until now, he has been a steady presence in the literary world. In addition, he is an accomplished composer with more than eighteen full symphonies, an opera, and a requiem mass to his credit. Now, Williams tells the story of his creative life in an open, jaunty, and often hilarious autobiography. The book starts with the story of a notorious party in New york City in 1991 and then backtracks to Williams’s early days living in the country outside Madison, Georgia, where his father was principal of Morgan County High school. While the book has plenty on Williams’s youth in Madison, his days as a student at the university of Georgia, and his later years as a journalist, it focuses primarily on his career as a published writer, beginning with his first novel, The Heart of a Distant Forest. along the way, it dishes inside information on Hollywood and the publishing business itself, and is filled with high good humor, bizarre detours, and a quiet sense of accomplishment as a major writer in the south.

philip Lee Williams is the much-

honored author of eighteen published

books, including twelve novels and

two volumes of poetry. His next book,

The Color of All Things: 99 Love

Poems, will be out early in 2015. He

lives with his wife Linda in Oconee

County, Georgia. Learn more about

him at www.philipleewilliams.com.

It Is WrittenMy life in letters

Philip Lee Williams

The autobiography of an award-winning Southern writer and member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame

SepTeMBer 2014 | AuToBioGrApHY

6 x 9 | 500 pp. | Hardback, $29.00t | 978-0-88146-493-1 | H886 | Index | Illustrations


The Flower Seeker An epic poem of William BartramPhilip Lee Williams

Limited Edition | $75.00s | H807978-0-88146-208-1

Hardback | $55.00t | H820978-0-88146-228-9

Paperback | $25.00t | P414978-0-88146-221-0

elegies for the WaterpoemsPhilip Lee WilliamsHardback | $20.00t | H757978-0-88146-142-8

The Campfire Boys

A novelPhilip Lee Williams

Hardback | $26.00t | H788978-0-88146-153-4

in the Morning reflections from First LightPhilip Lee WilliamsHardback | $23.00t | H717978-0-88146-022-3

emerson’s BrotherA novel

Philip Lee WilliamsPaperback | $20.00t | P445

978-0-88146-274-6e-book | $20.00 | P445e

978-0-88146-367-5

The Divine ComicsA Vaudeville Show in Three ActsPhilip Lee WilliamsPaperback | $37.50t | P435978-0-88146-261-6

o t H e r t I t l e s f r o M P H I l I P l e e W I l l I a M s


Chuck perry spent more than forty

years in the publishing business, first

as a newspaperman with the Atlanta

Journal-Constitution, then as founder

and publisher of Longstreet Press, and

finally in corporate marketing at Cox

Enterprises, Inc. Today he describes

himself as “self-unemployed” and

spends sunny days on the golf course.

A native of Athens, Georgia, Perry

holds an ABJ and MA in English from

the University of Georgia. He resides

in Atlanta, Georgia.

Former United States Attorney General Griffin Bell, a partner with robert l. steed in the prestigious atlanta law firm of King & spalding, once described steed as “half lawyer, half wit. His law partners insist he’s a writer, and his writer friends insist he’s a lawyer.” In fact, steed built an enviable career in both fields. a graduate of Mercer law school, steed became one of the nation’s leading bond attorneys during an era of rapid economic development. all the while he wrote humorous essays that were published in the Atlanta Constitution and collected into books; his barbs were targeted at the vainglorious in politics, entertainment, and society, always imploring them, “Don’t take yourself so damn serious.” That attitude also served steed well as a member of the Mercer university Board of trustees from 1974 till the present. His insight, humor, and love of Mercer helped him to guide the university, as chairman of the Board, through some tempestuous times. long-time Mercer President Dr. Kirby Godsey said, “I can honestly say that Mercer never had a more loyal alumnus than Bob steed.” Greatness often sprouts from modest roots, and such was the case with steed. shared here for the first time is the story behind the persona—the family, wife, wit, and commitment that coalesced to form an extraordinary scholar, writer, and philanthropist.

The Best of Bob SteedThe Not-so-serious but seriously accomplished life of robert l. steed

Robert L. Steed with Chuck Perry


Senator richard B. russell and

My Career as a Trial Lawyer

An AutobiographyCharles E. CampbellHardback | $35.00t | H867

978-0-88146-432-0

richard Brevard russell, Jr.A Life of ConsequenceSally RussellHardback | $35.00t | H834978-0-88146-259-3

The life and selected writings of an accomplished Southern lawyer, writer, raconteur, and philanthropist

noVeMBer 2014 | BioGrApHY/SeLeCTeD WriTinGS/MerCer

6 x 9 | pp. | Hardback, $25.00t | 978-0-88146-509-9 | H894 | Index | Illustrations

A Heart for Any Fate

The Biography of richard Brevard

russell, Sr.Sally Russell

Hardback | $35.00t | H628978-0-86554-957-9

Making My MarkThe Story of a Man Who Wouldn’t Stay in His placeMarvin S. Arrington, Sr.Hardback | $29.00t | H751978-0-88146-098-8

Over the span of the last three centuries, the ancestors of James t. Mcafee, Jr., relentlessly sought for a life that could make a difference. toward the middle of the seventeenth century, the Mcafees left conflict-torn scotland, and migrated to Ireland. once in Ireland, extreme hunger and poverty gave them urgent reason to risk voyage across the violent North atlantic to the New World. undeterred, they trekked from Delaware to Virginia, pioneered west into the unknown bluegrass of Kentucky alongside Daniel Boone, and finally, at the turn of the twentieth century, this weary clan settled next to the Mississippi river in the rich, alluvial soil of Western tennessee. a propitious moment had arrived.

success requires the relentless yearning and courage of countless generations for a family to reach a culminating moment of great contribution and distinction. With the birth of James t. Mcafee, Jr., in 1939, such fulfillment coalesced. over the span of the next six decades, Jim Mcafee emerges as a significant leader within the healthcare industry, as well as a generous and visionary contributor to higher education.

Drawing on family memoirs and a cache of personal interviews, scott Walker recounts the career of Jim Mcafee, and the impact of his life on Belmont university, Mercer university, and union university.

Scott Walker is the director of the

Institute of Life Purpose and senior

lecturer at Mercer University. He earned

a doctorate in adult education from the

University of Georgia, specializing in

adult developmental studies. Walker is

the author of eleven books, including

Hell’s Broke Loose in Georgia and

The Edge of Terror. He served with

Jim McAfee on the Mercer University

Board of Trustees.

To Make a Difference

a Biography of James t. Mcafee, Jr.

Scott Walker


i Am a part of All That i Have Met

The Memoirs of Burke nicholson

of BalvenieH. Burke Nicholson, Jr.;

with Mary Juliet Nicholson

Hardback | $25.00t | H878978-0-88146-471-9

Loving Beyond Your TheologyThe Life and Ministry of Jimmy raymond AllenLarry L. McSwainHardback | $35.00t | H805978-0-88146-205-0

eternity as a Sunrise

The Life of Hugo H. Culpepper

R. Alan CulpepperHardback | $35.00s | H621

978-0-86554-819-0

Journey through My YearsA MemoirJames M. CoxHardback | $29.95t | H684978-0-86554-959-3

The life and legacy of a Southern businessman and his impact on higher education in the South

DeCeMBer 2014 | BioGrApHY/MerCer




Michael Buffalo Smith created GRITZ

Magazine in 1998, and was editor for

thirteen years during which time he

became known as “The Ambassador of

Southern Rock.” He has written many

cover stories, features, and reviews for

magazines including Rolling Stone,

Goldmine, Hittin’ the Note, and Mojo.

Smith also writes Southern-based

fiction and songs and is the author of

Prisoner of Southern Rock: A Memoir.

Rebel Yell: An Oral History of Southern Rock presents the story of a musical genre born in the backwoods, highways, and swamps of Macon, Georgia, and Jacksonville, florida, in 1969 and peaking in popularity during the 1970s. This history of southern rock is told by the musicians, roadies, fans, and recording industry folk who lived it. Drawn from literally hundreds of hours of interviews with the author, the book focuses on the “big four”—The allman Brothers Band, lynyrd skynyrd, The Marshall tucker Band, and The Charlie Daniels Band—while delving into the careers of other great bands like The outlaws, Bonnie Bramlett, Cowboy, Wet Willie, and Molly Hatchet. The story is enhanced by the photography of Kirk West, Bill Thames, and others, and includes many never-before-published images. also included are a series of “top 20” lists—including the best southern rock vocalists, guitarists, songs, and more.

Rebel Yellan oral History of southern rock

Michael Buffalo Smithforeword by Alan Walden

o t H e r t I t l e s I N t H e M u s I C a N D a M e r I C a N s o u t H s e r I e s

prisoner of Southern rock

A MemoirMichael Buffalo Smith

foreword by Billy Bob Thornton

Hardback | $27.00t | H847978-0-88146-381-1

no Saints, no SaviorsMy Years with The Allman Brothers BandWilliam H. PerkinsHardback | $25.00t | H688978-0-86554-967-8

Southern Rock history told by the people who lived it

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MuSiC AnD THe AMeriCAn SouTH SerieS

6 x 9 | 420pp. | Paperback, $24.00t | 978-0-88146-495-5 | P490 | Index | Photographs

A never-ending Groove

Johnny Sandlin’s Musical odyssey

Anathalee G. SandlinHardback | $30.00t | H839

978-0-88146-276-0

They Heard Georgia SingingZell MillerHardback | $30.00t | H397978-0-86554-504-5

Termed the greatest program builder in the history of college basketball after winning more than a hundred games at four different Division I schools, all of which had fallen on hard times or never enjoyed hoops success, Charles “lefty” Driesell was a transcendent figure in his sport for more than forty years.

Despite never coaching at one of the college game’s traditional powers, and despite losing two seasons in the middle of his career due to the tragic actions of another, Driesell still ended his career as the fourth “winningest” college coach at the time he retired in 2003 with 786 victories, coaching at Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, and Georgia state.

Included in his legacy is the traditional start of preseason practice called Midnight Madness, assistant coaches who would later accumulate more than 2,500 Division I wins as head coaches, incentive for the expansion of the NCaa tournament to more than just conference champions, recruitment of the first african-american players at previously all-white schools in the south, and revolutionary recruiting tactics that would prompt NCaa legislation.

Thirty-three of his players were drafted by the NBa. among his ten first team all-americans were nine NBa first-round draft picks, while two of the best recruits he ever signed never played a minute for him.

This is the story of a legitimate basketball legend known simply as “lefty.”

F. Martin Harmon was sports

information director for twenty-two

years at three Southern universities—

the final fourteen years at Georgia

State University in Atlanta. Earlier in his

career, he was prep sports editor at the

Nashville Banner. Harmon is recently

retired as public relations director at

Roosevelt Warm Springs, the historic

Georgia facility founded by Franklin

D. Roosevelt. He is the author of The

Warm Springs Story: Legacy & Legend.

Find out more about him at www.

fmartinharmon.com.

Charles “Lefty” Driesell

a Basketball legend

F. Martin Harmon


The Warm Springs Story

Legacy & LegendF. Martin Harmon

Hardback | $35.00t | H879978-0-88146-472-6

Life of DreamsThe Good Times of Sportswriter Fred russellAndrew DerrHardback | $35.00t | H841978-0-88146-278-4

Career in Crisispaul “Bear” Bryant

and the 1971 Season of Change

John David BrileyHardback | $29.95t | H719

978-0-88146-025-4

The Greatest Champion that never WasThe Life of W. L. “Young” StriblingJaclyn Weldon Whiteforeword by Bert Randolph SugarHardback | $30.00t | H828978-0-88146-252-4

The colorful and challenging life of an innovative and legendary college basketball coach

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renea Winchester is the award-

winning author of In the Garden

with Billy. She is the recipient of

the Appalachian Writer and Denny

Plattner awards. Her work has aired on

Georgia’s WAB90.1FM. Winchester is

passionate about literacy and human

interest stories. Learn more about her

at www.reneawinchester.com.

Tucked behind a magnolia tree on a busy Georgia road is a magical place—a simple country farm, unchanged by time. on this little strip of land, chickens scratch greetings and goats bleat hello. sweet yellow corn grows tall, and curly bean vines reach for the sky. a burly tractor and a fifty-year-old Chevy wait inside the shed, ready for action.

for some folks, farms trigger childhood memories, such as sunday supper at their grandparent’s table, or recollections of past generations smiling from picture frames gathering dust on the mantle.

for 82-year-old Billy albertson, his farm reflects a time before folks were hurried, or technology ruled our lives. families grew gardens and feasted on fresh vegetables, adults spent time on front porches comparing stories, and children scampered barefoot through the grass waiting their turn at the hand-cranked ice cream freezer.

spending time with friends on the farm is Billy’s life. Here you don’t have to be a gardener or blood kin to be family. Inside the pages of Farming, Friends, & Fried Bologna Sandwiches is a story about Billy and his magical farm.

Farming, Friends, & Fried Bologna SandwichesRenea Winchester


A Southern Woman’s Guide

to HerbsJaclyn Weldon WhitePaperback | $20.00t | P472

978-0-88146-460-3

Buttermilk and Bible BurgerMore Stories from the Kitchens of AppalachiaFred W. SaucemanPaperback | $21.00t | P481978-0-88146-479-5

There is More than one Way

to Spell WienerThe Story of nu-Way

Ed GrisamorePaperback | $20.00t | P441

978-0-88146-269-2

remember When...?Family, Friends, recipesClara Belle Hooks Eschmann Hardback | $20.00t | P467

978-0-86554-623-3

Farm to table—the influence of one Southern farmer’s unchanged way of life

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6 x 9 | 296 pp. | Paperback, $21.00t | 978-0-88146-504-4 | P494


The place SettingTimeless Tastes of Mountain South, from Bright Hope

to Frog Level: Second Serving

Fred W. SaucemanHardback | $25.00t | H718

978-0-86554-998-2

The place SettingTimeless Tastes of Mountain South, from Bright Hope to Frog Level: ThirdsFred W. SaucemanHardback | $29.95t | H759978-0-88146-140-4

Sam Williams is one of the nation’s leading experts in urban competitiveness. over seventeen years at the helm of a top chamber of commerce and twenty-two years as a partner in a global architect-development company, Williams earned a national reputation for harnessing the power of Ceos to make cities thrive.

With their long-term view and the ability to garner support from many sectors, Ceos can often successfully address urban challenges too big for political and bureaucratic leaders to solve alone.

In The CEO as Urban Statesman, Williams uses case studies to argue that business leaders can and should contribute to their communities by using their business skills to solve public policy problems—and he tells them how to do it.

It’s happening all over the country. Ceos Pete Correll, tom Bell, and Michael russell helped rescue atlanta’s safety-net hospital from impending financial collapse. In oklahoma City. Ceo ray ackerman and part-time mayor and printing company executive ron Norick redeveloped the city’s downtown. Zions Bank Ceo scott anderson led a salt lake City business coalition that backed a successful sales tax referendum to jump-start their region’s transportation plan. In Houston, former astronaut and entrepreneur Mae Jemison led a task force on natural disasters following the devastation of Hurricane Ike. Georgia executive John turner worked for fourteen years to create the longest urban whitewater course in the world on the stretch of the Chattahoochee river that runs through downtown Columbus.

These projects are all different, but they share common themes. Williams explores each case in detail, distilling best practices as well as cautionary tales for business leaders who want to help their cities thrive.

At the helm of one of the nation’s most

influential chambers of commerce,

Sam A. Williams led Atlanta, Georgia’s

high-profile business community for

almost two decades. Earning a national

reputation for harnessing the power

of business leaders to make cities

thrive, he has become one of the

nation’s leading experts in urban

competitiveness. Williams was also

a partner for twenty-two years with

Portman Properties, a global architect-

development company. An active

alumnus of Harvard Business School

and Georgia Tech, he resides in Atlanta.

The CEO as Urban Statesman

Sam A. Williams


Growing a Better AmerciaSmart, Strong, and

Sustainable Chuck Leavell;

with J. Marshall CraigHardback | $24.95t | SP101

978-0-61543-458-2

The invisible Hand in the Wildernesseconomics, ecology, and GodMalcolm Clemens YoungPaperback | $30.00t | P489978-0-88146-487-0

How CEOs can address urban challenges too big for political leaders to solve

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6 x 9 | 192 pp. | Hardback, $25.00t | 978-0-88146-510-5 | H895 | Index


relationship Banker

eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, and

American Business, 1916–1959

James L. HuntHardback | $35.00t | H672

978-0-86554-915-9

Footnotes to HistoryA primer on the American political CharacterGriffin B. Bell;John P. Cole, editorHardback | $25.00t | H668978-0-886554-904-3


David Crowe is professor of English

at Augustana College in Rock Island,

Illinois. A graduate of Luther College

and the University of Minnesota, he

is a Fulbright Scholar (Norway), and

has published on Ernest Hemingway,

Wendell Berry, John Updike, Walker

Percy, and others.

John Updike once wrote that many of his works are “illustrations of Kierkegaard,” and yet no current study provides an extended, convincing reason why this is so, why updike came to live by søren Kierkegaard’s ideas. This study does, telling the story of updike’s life-altering encounter with Fear and Trembling in early career, and tracing the subsequent evolution of updike’s complex and coherent theology. examining updike’s many claims about Kierkegaard’s life and work, and casting those claims into debate with Kierkegaard’s best scholars and critics, this book explains why Kierkegaard and his intellectual inheritors Karl Barth and Miguel de unamuno provided updike with a reason to live, and a vocation as an antinomian Christian writer. The study pursues the same question updike did: how are identity and action bound up with faith in God? The eighteen intensely autobiographical Maples stories, chapters in the tale of a twenty-two-year marriage that begins hopefully but ends in divorce, epitomize the theological preoccupations updike learned from Kierkegaard—becoming an authentic self and learning to love the neighbor creatively rather than compulsively.

Cosmic Defianceupdike’s Kierkegaard

and the Maples Stories David Crowe


Searching for edenJohn Steinbeck’s

ethical CareerJohn H. TimmermanHardback | $29.00t | H885

978-0-88146-478-8

The C. S. Lewis phenomenonChristianity and the public SphereSamuel JoeckelPaper | $30.00t | P463978-0-88146-437-5

Sober Cannibals, Drunken ChristiansMelville, Kierkegaard,

and Tragic optimism in polarized Worlds

Jamie LorentzenPaperback | $35.00t | P409

978-0-88146-200-5

Wingless Chickens, Bayou Catholics, and pilgrim WayfarersConstruction of Audience and Tone in o’Connor, Gautreaux, and percyL. Lamar NislyHardback | $35.00t | H813978-0-88146-214-2

This biographical-critical study is the first book-length exploration of John Updike’s passion for Søren Kierkegaard’s ideas

noVeMBer 2014 | LiTerArY CriTiCiSM/upDiKe/KierKeGAArD

6 x 9 | 448 pp. | Hardback $35.00t | 978-0-88146-502-0 | H891 | Bibliography | Index | Illustrations

Subjectivity and religious Truth in the philosophy of

Søren KierkegaardMerigala Gabriel

Paperback | $30.00t | P398978-0-88146-170-1

Kierkegaard’s MetaphorsJamie LorentzenHardback | $39.95s | H548978-086554-7315

Kierkegaard’s writings are severely complicated and readers often do not know what to make of them given the array of genres he deploys. He is at once a philosopher, theologian, literary critic, and poet in his own right who writes under multiple pseudonyms directed at an unsure audience.

Stages on Life’s Way is one of his longer and more elusive texts, and even scholars often shy away from it. The Divine Madness of Romantic Ideals offers a close and extensive reading of this puzzling production, showing how its disarming, concrete themes of personal love and marriage help unlock more abstract conceptual boxes within Kierkegaard’s authorship for a general readership, pointing out the forest while paying scrupulous attention to the trees. The overall perspective of Stages is tracked in detail to show how the oft-evoked esthetic, ethical, and religious spheres of human life are concretely distinguished and problematically related in a kind of single developmental stage.

for students of nineteenth century romanticism this reader’s guide offers particular nuance to a tradition of reflection that typically blends an affirmation of eroticism, the natural world, and religious longing. for students of modern existentialism, if Kierkegaard is supposed to be the father, here we find clues about who the mother might be. for theologians it provides a peculiar literary theodicy, and for patrons of moral psychology an edifying disillusionment about the frailty of human aspiration and agency.

turning against the tide of cursory reading, this book is a model for treating a lesser-known classic.

also available: The International Kierkegaard Commentary Volume 11: Stages on Life’s Way—9780865547049, $50.00s.

Kevin Hoffman received his PhD in

Philosophy from Fordham University

and taught for many years at Christ

College in the honors program of

Valparaiso University where he was

given the Caterpillar Award for

excellence in teaching. He has published

journal articles on Kierkegaard in the

International Philosophical Quarterly

and The Journal of Religious Ethics.

The Divine Madness of

Romantic Idealsa reader’s Companion for

Kierkegaard’s Stages on Life’s Way

Kevin Hoffman

This original full-length commentary on stages on life’s Way fills a conspicuous gap in scholarship

noVeMBer 2014 | pHiLoSopHY

MerCer KierKeGAArD SerieS6 x 9 | 260 pp. | Paperback $35.00t | 978-0-88146-499-3 | P492 | Bibliography | Index


repetition and the Fullness of Time

Gift, Task, and narrative in

Kierkegaard’s upbuilding ethics

Randall G. Colton

Paperback | $30.00t | P474978-0-88146-462-7

Kant and Kierkegaard on Time and eternityRonald M. GreenHardback | $50.00t | H830978-0-88146-255-5

o t H e r t I t l e s I N t H e M e r C e r K I e r K e G a a r D s e r I e s

Kierkegaard’s Socratic ArtBenjamin Daise

Paperback | $18.00s | P195978-0-86554-655-4

The Concept of Anxiety in Søren Kiekegaard Arne Grøn; translated by Sinead Ladegaard KnoxHardback | $30.00t | H769978-088146-126-8

16 16 MerCer uNIVersIt y Press Series from Mercer University Pressfall/WINter 2014

International Kierkegaard CommentaryFor the first time in English the world community of scholars has systematically assembled and presented the results of recent research in the vast literature of søren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive english edition of Kierkegaard’s works by Princeton university Press, this series of commentaries addresses all the published texts of the influential Danish philosopher and theologian. —Robert L. Perkins, series editor

For a complete listing of this twenty-four-volume series visit our website

Mercer Kierkegaard SeriesThis Series is on everything Kierkegaard. as a companion to the International Kierkegaard Commentary series, this general series is open to any investigation of the life and work of søren Kierkegaard, including studies on irony, scripture, myth, authorship, religion, politics, and culture.Kant and Kierkegaard on Time and eternity Ronald M. Green H830 | 978-0-88146-255-5 | $50.00t

Subjectivity and religious Truth in the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard Merigala Gabriel P398 | 978-0-88146-170-1 | $30.00t

The Concept of Anxiety in Søren Kierkegaard Arne Grøn, Translated by Sinead Ladegaard Knox H769 | 978-0-88146-126-8 | $30.00s

For a complete listing visit our website

Voices of the African DiasporaThis Series presents the development of the intellectual tradition of the African Diaspora. Bringing together a variety of disciplines—literary and social/cultural criticism, anthropology, sociology, religion/philosophy, education, political science, psychology, and history—by publishing original critical studies and reprints of classic texts. The reprints will include both nineteenth- and twentieth-century works. our goal is to make important texts accessible and readily available both to the general reader and to the academic. —Chester J. Fontenot, Jr., series editor Abandonment in Dixie: underdevelopment in the Black Bible Belt Veronica L. Womack P461 | 978-0-88146-440-5 | $35.00t

Democracy in Twenty-First Century America: race, Class, religion, and region Ronald B. Neal P448 | 978-0-88146-286-9 | $30.00t

The Cost of unity: African-Amercian Agency and education and the Christian Church, 1865–1914 Lawrence A. Q. Burnley H775 | 978-0-88146-134-3 | $45.00t

The Souls of W. e. B. DuBois: new essays and reflections Edward J. Blum and Jason R. Young, editors H777 | 978-0-88146-136-7 | $45.00t


The MelungeonsSometimes called “Melungeons,” the earliest nonnative “americans” to live in appalachia were (perhaps) of Mediterranean extraction and of a Jewish or Muslim religious persuasion. for fear of discrimination since “persons of color” were often disenfranchised and abused—the Melungeons were reticent regarding their heritage. In fact, over time, many Melungeons themselves “forgot” where they came from. Hence, today, Melungeons remain the “last lost tribe in america,” even to themselves. once lost, but now forgotten no more. This series explores the origins, history, and culture of these once-forgotten people. —Wayne Winkler, series editor & N. Brent Kennedy, founding editorThe Melungeons: The resurrection of a proud people—An untold Story of ethnic Cleansing in America N. Brent Kennedy and Robyn Vaughan Kennedy P143 | 978-0-86554-516-8 | $17.95t

Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America Elizabeth C. Hirschman P245 | 978-0-86554-861-9 | $19.00t

Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia Wayne Winkler P250 | 978-0-86554-869-5 | $19.00t

Through the Back Door: Melungeon Literacies and Twenty-First Century Technologies Katherine Vande Brake P387 | 978-0-88146-150-3 | $22.00t


The Melungeons

69 www.mupress .org 866-895-1472International Kierkegaard Commentary - New in Paper 17

Among the most important and intricate of all the works of Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety is deeply rooted in the life and personality of its author. first published in 1844 under the cryptic pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis, The Concept of Anxiety is, according to its subtitle, A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Heriditary Sin. “Psychologically orienting” it may be; “simple” it is not. for Kierkegaard, burdened as he was with the guilt of his father, “heriditary sin” was not a theoretical abstraction but an existential reality. yet the book, born of his daily struggle with anxiety, is perhaps Kierkegaard’s most difficult work, embodying the author’s great learning as well as his irony and his passion. In this commentary eight recognized Kierkegaard scholars explore the sources and the continuing influence of The Concept of Anxiety. The Dane’s debt to augustine, Kant, and schelling, his debate with Hegel and the overarching system of Idealism, and his intellectual legacy to modern thinkers like Martin Heidegger are analyzed and evaluated. The relation of anxiety to freedom and knowledge, to time and eternity, to sin and the demonic is assessed with the care and sensitivity that Kierkegaard’s writing demands.

SepTeMBer 2014 | pHiLoSopHY | 6 x 9 | 215 pp. | Paperback, $40.00s | 978-0-88146-515-0 | P498 | Index

In late 1845 Søren Kierkegaard began a literary duel with the satiric Danish review The Corsair that had momentous effects on his life and work. The affair prompted Kierkegaard to ponder and write about the use and abuse of the press. His reflections on this subject led him to examine topics that included communication, the public, the public morale, and the issues of social legitimacy, the relation of the individual to society and, surprisingly enough, the nature of the comic. standard Kierkegaard biographies and interpretations generally perceive the affair as decisive in leading Kierkegaard to give up his idea of becoming a country pastor and in driving him to continue his prodigious literary output. The Corsair Affair, is not like any other volume previously published or planned in the series. It contains only a few pages of Kierkegaard’s own published writings, while his unpublished journals constitute most of the volume. The second-largest section reprints the cartoons and articles about Kierkegaard published in The Corsair and includes excerpts from the autobiography of Meir Goldschmidt, editor of The Corsair. Perkins states in his introduction that this commentary “is the first concerted effort by scholars of many persuasions, using different methods, to address this series of events and the concepts that were developed in and through them. Here we make a fresh new start to work our way through a new set of concepts derived from these documents and our cogitations on them. In the process, we also enrich our treatment of concepts that have long been prominent in Kierkegaard research.”

SepTeMBer 2014 | pHiLoSopHY | 6 x 9 | 218 pp. | Paperback, $40.00s | 978-0-88146-516-7 | P483 | Index | Illustrations

International Kierkegaard Commentary Volume 13: The Corsair affair

Robert L. Perkins, series editor

Fear and Trembling continues to fascinate and frustrate all who find, for many reasons, that they must struggle with it. Not only “professional intellectuals,” but students and other seekers perennially wrestle with it, working their way through its difficult dialectic. Both philosophers and theologians are provoked by the prominence of typically Kierkegaardian terms, categories, and arguments—”paradox,” “resignation,” “faith,” “the absurd,” “the individual,” “the poet,” “immediacy,” “the ethical,” “leap,” “offence,” “silence,” and others. In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard challenges many of our modern assumptions, and he will continue to frustrate and fascinate us for so long as we attempt to sort out ourselves and our times. IKC 6 includes the first collection of essays to concentrate the talents of a number of scholars on Kierkegaard’s obscure little book Repetition which is, in a word, about hope. Kierkegaard suggests that in the midst of our epistemological errors, the weakness and/or arrogance of our wills, and in making fools of ourselves, or being made fools of, there is everlasting hope for us. Repetition indeed goes to the heart of the matter, to the core of human existence.

SepTeMBer 2014 | pHiLoSopHY | 6 x 9 | 400 pp. | Paperback, $40.00s | 978-0-88146-518-1 | P500 | Index

International Kierkegaard Commentary Volume 6: fear and trembling and repetition


International Kierkegaard Commentary Volume 8: The Concept of anxiety


F. erik Brooks is professor and chair

of the department of African American

Studies at Western Illinois University.

He previously taught Political Science

and Public Administration at Georgia

Southern University. Brooks earned

a PhD from the L. Douglas Wilder

School of Government at Virginia

Commonwealth University. He is a

native of Montgomery, Alabama.

Savannah State University is Georgia’s oldest public historically black university. from its inception as the black land grant college in1890, the roots of black activism were a core element of the school’s existence.

as a young boy, savannah state’s founder richard r. Wright was asked by General o. o. Howard, “What he should tell Northerners about the newly freed slaves in the south?” Wright boldly responded, “tell them that we are rising.”

years after this encounter and as the leader of Georgia state Industrial College for Colored youth, (savannah state university’s forerunner) Wright and many of the citizens of savannah bravely and brilliantly advanced the ideas of black independence, self-reliance, and equal rights. These concepts would later be used as motivating factors in orchestrating demonstrations and boycotts in the Civil rights movement in savannah.

In this provocative exploration of the issues of race, politics, and higher education in savannah, Georgia, Brooks unveils how Georgia’s political climate affected the growth and progression at savannah state university. Brooks interweaves local, state, national politics, the history of the university, and the Civil rights movement as a backdrop to showcase savannah state university students’ participation in the struggle for equality from the institution’s beginning in 1890 to the election of Barack obama as the first african american president of the united states in 2008.

additionally, Brooks reveals that not only have students fought for civil rights issues external to the university but they have also fought for rights internal to the university.

Tigers in the Tempestsavannah state university and the struggle for Civil rights

F. Erik Brooks


America’s Historically

Black Colleges & universities

A narrative History, 1837–2009

Bobby L. LovettHardback | $35.00t | H814

978-0-88146-215-9

A Touch of GreatnessA History of Tennessee State universityBobby L. LovettHardback | $35.00t | H870978-0-88146-435-1

pursuing a promiseA History of African

Americans at Georgia Southern university

F. Erik BrooksHardback | $35.00t | H700

978-0-88146-018-6

educating the urban new SouthAtlanta and the rise of Georgia State university, 1913–1969Merl E. ReedHardback | $35.00t | H784978-0-88146-148-0

The history of activism and racial politics at Savannah State University and the City of Savannah

JAnuArY 2015 | AFriCAn AMerCiAn STuDieS/HiSTorY

AMerCiA’S HiSToriCALLY BLACK CoLLeGeS AnD uniVerSiTieS SerieS

6 x 9 | 256 pp. | Hardback, $35.00t | 978-0-88146-494-8 | H887 | Bibliography | Index | lllustrations


undaunted By the Fight

Spelman College and the Civil

rights Movement, 1957–1967

Harry G. Lefever Paperback | $25.00t | P292

978-0-86554-938-8

“Tell Them We Are Singing For Jesus”The original Fisk Jubilee Singers and Christian reconstruction, 1971–1878Toni P. AndersonHardback | $45.00t | H785978-0-88146-112-1

This study of church discipline cases describes a system of subjection with obligations for all—men, women, parents, children, masters, and servants. although many historians have mistaken this for “oppression,” most southerners accepted the idea of “subjection,” regarding it as a divinely ordained system for their mutual governance and benefit.

using Baptist church record books from across North and south Carolina, the author invites readers to sit in on business meetings of the past to see how churches regulated the behavior of their members. Chapter 1, “subjection: a Cultural Consensus,” describes this system of subjection that encompassed members from all walks of life. Chapter 2, “unity and Discord,” examines cases of general contention between church members, demonstrating that churches expected brothers and sisters to submit to each other in Christian fellowship. Chapter 3, “Crucifying the Carnal Man,” focuses on discipline cases wherein men were brought under subjection to church standards. Chapter 4, “fellowlabourers,” examines financial matters, demonstrating that while expectations varied for men and women, they both bore financial responsibilities as church members, and both were held equally accountable for their secular dealings. Chapter 5, “Promiscuity and Marriage,” concentrates on the relationship between husbands and wives, a common symbol of Christian subjection.

Complete with a map and statistical tables, this book argues that church discipline bound everyone together in mutual subjection to a shared code of conduct rather than empowering white men exclusively with a position of authority over others.

Jessica Madison earned her PhD from

the University of Kentucky. She now

specializes in online instruction and

teaches courses in American History for

Eastern Kentucky University, Tennessee

Temple University, and Kentucky

Community and Technical College

System. Madison lives in Southeast

Kentucky.

In SubjectionChurch Discipline in the early

american south, 1760–1830Jessica Madison


An investigation into the eighteenth-century Southern belief system of a prescribed and ordered society for all

oCToBer 2014 | SouTHern HiSTorY

6 x 9 | 224 pp. | Hardback $35.00t | 978-0-88146-500-6 | H890 | Bibliography | Index | Illustrations


Democracy in Twenty-First

Century Americarace, Class, religion,

and region Ronald B. Neal

Paperback | $30.00t | P448978-0-88146-286-9

erasing public Memory race, Aesthetics, and Cultural Amnesia in the AmericasJoseph A. Young and Jana E. Braziel, editorsHardback | $60.00s | H736978-0-88146-076-6Paperback | $30.00t | P327978-0-88146-058-2

The old SouthA Brief History

with DocumentsDavid Williams

Paperback | $25.00t | P486978-0-88146-484-9

e-book | $21.00 | P486e978-0-88146-489-4

The narrative LifeThe Moral and religious Thought of Frederick DouglassScott C. Williamson

Paperback | $25.00t | P236

978-0-86554-834-3

encyclopedia of religion in

the SouthSamuel S. Hill

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Volume 7: Words of Grace is the last volume of letters rounding out anne Dutton’s correspondence as a significant spiritual writer and encourager of revival and growth in holiness.

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JoAnn Ford Watson is the H. R.

Gill Family Professor of Theology

at Ashland Theological Seminary,

Ashland, Ohio. She received her PhD

degree from Northwestern University.

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the Presbyterian Church, USA with

various pastoral experience. She has

worked with Mother Teresa’s order,

the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta,

India.

Selected Spiritual Writings of

Anne Duttoneighteenth-Century, British-Baptist,

Woman Theologian:

Volume 7: Words of GraceJoAnn Ford Watson

o t H e r a N N e D u t t o N V o l u M e s I N t H I s C o l l e C t I o N

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Surviving the Stained-Glass Jungle is a compelling and positive look at the parish ministry through the eyes of a veteran pastor of more than fifty-three years. The book directly confronts the issues of burnout, conflict, stress, and social con-cerns. It gives strategy and practical help in navigating through these difficult currents. self addresses the usual themes of preaching, administration, and pastoral care, but also gives practical help with the issues of the pastor’s own mental health and self-care. This material is written for parish leaders of all mainline denominations and will become a standard for the practice of ministry. The general theme of the book is that the church is worth the effort. The target audience is seminarians and veteran pastors alike in order to encourage them in the task. laymen would also benefit significantly by reading this book, gaining a better understanding of the ministry. self has a national reputation as a gifted preacher, pastor, author, lecturer, motivational speaker for corporate america, and innovator in church growth.

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From the first conflict under General Nathan Bedford Forrest at Murfreesboro in 1862 to the desperate and often brutal battles with union cavalry in the Carolinas during 1865, the 2nd Georgia was almost constantly in action. While the 2nd Georgia fought in such famous campaigns as Perryville, stones river, Chickamauga, Knoxville, resaca, atlanta, and Bentonville, they also participated in deadly encounters at farmington, Mossy Creek, Noonday Creek, sunshine Church, and Waynesboro. Many of these conflicts are obscure to all but the most ardent Civil War historians. returning in paperback, this is the first regimental history of a Georgia Cavalry regiment ever published. The 2nd Georgia served under both Nathan Beford forrest and Joe Wheeler, and campaigned not only on home turf, but literally on the farm acreages of many of the unit’s members.

John randolph poole, a graduate of the University of Georgia, is managing partner of Poole &

Dunn Management Services, LLC, a small firm that provides government relations and management

services for business groups. He lives on Lake Hartwell with his wife Susan.

Cracker CavaliersThe 2nd Georgia Cavalry under Wheeler and forrest

John Randolph Poole

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This book begins with an introductory overview of the socio-political climate of the state of Mississippi during the 1850s and ends with a treatment of its post-war environment. In between, the work covers the pivotal events, issues, and personalities of the period. Wynne emphasizes the experiences of Mississippians—male and female, black and white—as they struggled to deal with the crisis. The political events leading to secession, Mississippians’ initial enthusiasm for war, voices of dissent, the disbursement of troops in and out of the state, the home front, freedom for the slave community, waning enthusiasm (both in the military and on the home front) as the war dragged on, defeat, and the ultimate struggle to turn defeat into a moral victory through lost Cause mythology are also discussed.

This title is also available in hardback 9780881460391, $35.00t.

A native of Florence, Mississippi, Ben Wynne serves as associate professor of History at the

University of North Georgia. He is the author of A Hard Trip: A History of the 15th Mississippi

Infantry,1861-1865 and other works related to the American South.

Mississippi’s Civil War

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Georgia’s Confederate Monuments: in Honor of a Fallen nation Gould B. Hagler, Jr. H877 | $45.00t | 9780881464665The Battle of peach Tree Creek: Hood’s First Sortie, July 20, 1864 Robert D. Jenkins, Sr. H858 | $35.00t | 9780881463965 Mother of rain: A novel Karen Spears Zacharias P469 | $17.00t | 9780881464481 e-book | $13.00 | 9780881464504The Seventh Mirror Terry Kay H874 | $16.00t | 9780881464528 e-book | $12.00 | 9780881464566Concertina: poems Joseph Bathanti P480 | $18.00t | 9780881464702in pursuit: A novel Sharman Burson Ramsey P473 | $20.00t | 9780881464542 e-book | $16.00 | 9780881464580Memory’s Mist: The View from the Journey Jackie K. Cooper P476 | $18.00t | 9780881464641 e-book | $14.00 | 9780881464672The pope’s Guest: A novel Vladimir Volkoff†; translated by John Marson Dunaway P471 | $24.00t | 9780881464535 e-book | $20.00 | 9780881464473

repetition and the Fullness of Time: Gift, Task, and narrative in Kierkgaard’s upbuilding ethics Randall G. Colton P474 | $30.00t | 9780881464627inconclusive Theologies: Sor Juana inés de la Cruz, Kierkegaard, and Theological Discourse Lisa D. Powell P475 | $30.00t | 9780881464634Thomas Grantham: God’s Messenger from Lincolnshire John Inscore Essick H876 | $30.00t | 9780881464610Can i Get a Witness?: essays, Sermons, and reflections Bill Leonard P479 | $30.00t | 9780881464689Baptist principles: With practical Applications and Questions for Discussion George H. Tooze† P464 | $19.00t | 9780881464382A Scandalous providence: The Jesus Story of the Compassion of God E. Frank Tupper P434 | $40.00t | 9780881462609Toward Human Flourishing: Character, practical Wisdom, and professional Formation M. L. Jones, P. A. Lewis, and K.E. Reffitt, editors P462 | $30.00s | 9780881464368A Touch of Greatness: A History of Tennessee State university Bobby L. Lovett H870 | $35.00t | 9780881464351

Mirror’s Fathom: A novel Sheridan Hough H861 | $28.00t | 9780881464016 e-book | $28.00 | 9780881464207The Curious Vision of Sammy Levitt And other Stories Cliff Graubart H857 | $26.00t | 9780881463958 e-book | $26.00 | 9780881463750Begin with rock, end with Water: essays John Lane P451 | $25.00t | 9780881463842Swimming with Serpents: A novel Sharman Burson Ramsey H854 | $26.00t | 9780881463910 e-book | $26.00 | 9780881463798our Sufficiency is of God: essays on preaching in Honor of Gardner C. Taylor T. George, J. E. Massey, R. Smith, Jr. P465 | $25.00t | 9780881464450The Tragedy and the Triumph of phenix City Alabama Margaret Anne Barnes† P459 | $20.00t | 9780881464184Baptists in early north America—Swansea, Massachusetts, Volume 1 William H. Brackney, series editor with Charles K. Hartman H871 | $60.00s | 9780881464399Baptists in early north America—First Baptist, providence, Volume 2 J. Stanley Lemons, editor H873 | $60.00s | 9780881464436

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i Am a part of All that i Have Met: The Memoirs of Burke nicholson of Balvenie H. Burke Nicholson†; with Mary Juliet Nicholson H878 | $25.00t | 9780881464719 The invisible Hand in the Wilderness: economics, ecology, and God Malcolm Clemens Young P489 | $30.00t | 9780881464870A plot for pridemore: A novel Stephen Roth P484 | $20.00t | 9780881464825 e-book | $16.00 | 97808814644887Separation of Church and State: Founding principle of religious Liberty Frank Lambert H884 | $29.00t | 9780881464771Swift Hour: poems Megan Sexton P478 | $16.00t | 9780881464696William Dean and the First Chinese Study Bible Chung-Yan Joyce Chan P488 | $35.00t | 9780881464863Half of What i Say is Meaningless Joseph Bathanti H880 | $25.00t | 9780881464733Buttermilk and Bible Burgers: More Stories from the Kitchens of Appalachia Fred W. Sauceman P481 | $21.00t | 9780881464795

The Splendour Falls: essays Sam Pickering P470 | $20.00t | 9780881464498 e-book | $16.00 | 9780881464511i Have Told You and Told You: poems Elizabeth Cox P468 | $18.00t | 9780881464474The Second Bud: Deserting the City for a Farm Winery Martha M. Ezzard H875 | $25.00t | 9780881464559 e-book | $21.00 | 9780881464597Decembers: poems James A. Perkins P477 | $18.00t | 9780881464658Murder in the State Capitol: The Biography of Lt. Col. robert Augustus Alston (1832–1879) Pamela Chase Hain H865 | $35.00t | 9780881464306Camp redemption: A novel H864 | $25.00t | 9780881464269 e-book | $25.00 | 9780881464283The C. S. Lewis phenomenon: Christianity and the public Sphere Samuel Joeckel P463 | $30.00t | 9780881464375A Killing on ring Jaw Bluff: The Great recession and the Death of Small Town Georgia Wiliam Rawlings H866 | $29.00t | 9780881464313 e-book | $29.00t | 9780881464429

Shakespeare’s prince: The interpretation of The Famous History of King Henry the eighth Guy Story Brown H868 | $45.00t | 9780881464337Abandonment in Dixie: underdevelopment in the Black Belt Veronica L. Womack P461 | $35.00t | 9780881464405Senator richard B. russell and My Career as a Trial Lawyer: An Autobiography Charles E. Campbell H867 | $35.00t | 9780881464320prisoner of Southern rock: A Memoir Michael Buffalo Smith foreword by Billy Bob Thornton H847 | $27.00t | 9780881463811The Voice of an American playwright: interviews with Horton Foote Gerald C. Wood and Marion Castleberry P454 | $22.00t | 9780881463972A Death at the White Camellia orphanage Marly Youmans H837 | $24.00t | 9780881462715 P467 | $18.00t | 9780881464467 e-book | $14.00 | 9780881463644Stormy Weather & other Stories Lisa Alther H851 | $24.00t | 9780881463866 e-book | $24.00 | 9780881463668restless Fires: Young John Muir’s Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf in 1867–68 James B. Hunt P457 | $20.00t | 9780881463934

The Father of Modern Landmarkism: The Life of Ben M. Bogard J. Kristian Pratt H869 | $35.00t | 9780881464344The Life and Letters of emily Chubbuck Judson (Fanny Forester), Vol. 7, 1826–1854 The Collected poetry and Fiction George H. Tooze, editor H872 | $60.00t | 9780881464412The pinkest party on earth: Macon, Georgia’s international Cherry Blossom Festival Ed Grisamore P482 | $25.00t | 9780881464801A Southern Woman’s Guide to Herbs Jaclyn Weldon White P472 | $20.00t | 9780881464603The old Governor’s Mansion: Georgia’s First executive residence James C. Turner; Matthew. S. Davis and Travis Byrd, contributors P466 | $16.00t | 9780881464443 Thinking photography Diane Asséo Griliches P456 | $30.00t | 9780881464276

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What the Yankees Did to us: Sherman’s Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta Stephen Davis H859 | $35.00t | 9780881463989The House Began to pitch: poems Kelly Whiddon P453 | $16.00t | 9780881463903A Miracle of Grace: An Autobiography E. Glenn Hinson H856 | $35.00t | 9780881463941George Liele’s Life and Legacy: An unsung Hero David T. Shannon†, Julia F. White, and Deborah B. Van Broekhoven, editors H853 | $35.00t | 9780881463897A Church for rachel Charles E. Poole H860 | $19.00t | 9780881463996 e-book | $19.00 | 9780881463774politics and Faith: reinhold niebuhr and paul Tillich at union Seminary in new York Ronald H. Stone H863 | $45.00t | 9780881463859The World’s Largest prison: The Story of Camp Lawton John K. Derden H850 | $35.00t | 9780881464153peace Warrior: A Memoir from the Front Daniel L. Buttry P455 | $25.00t | 9780881464009

Breathing and Walking Around: Meditations on a Life Kathy A. Bradley P442 | $20.00t | 9780881462708 e-book | $20.00 | 9780881463637Going Farther into the Woods than the Woods Go Seaborn Jones P443 | $15.00t | 9780881462722Life of Dreams: The Good Times of Sportswriter Fred russell Andrew Derr H841 | $35.00t | 9780881462784A Titanic Love Story: ida and isidor Straus June Hall McCash H840 | $29.00t | 9780881462777 e-book | $29.00 | 9780881464078on the north Slope: poems Catharine Savage Brosman P444 | $17.00t | 9780881462739Washed in the Blood: A novel Lisa Alther H832 | $26.00t | 9780881462579 e-book | $20.00 | 9780881463453And Your Daughters Shall prophesy: Sermons by Women in Baptist Life Karen Massey, editor P447 | $25.00t | 9780881462852Diverging Loyalties: Baptists in Middle Georgia during the Civil War Bruce T. Gourley H833 | $35.00t | 9780881462586

Democracy in Twenty-First Century America: race, Class, religion, and region Ronald B. Neal P448 | $30.00t | 9780881462869 Game Day and God: Football, Faith and politics in the American South Eric Bain-Selbo H790 | $35.00t | 9780881461558 P458 | $25.00t | 9780881464177A Choosing people: The History of Seventh Day Baptists Don A. Sanford† H846 | $35.00t | 9780881462845 e-book | $31.00 | 9780881464122Gridiron Glory Days: Football at Mercer, 1892–1942 Robert E. Wilder P439 | $25.00t | 9780881462678Between the House and the Chicken Yard: The Masks of Flannery o’Connor Jolly Kay Sharp H835 | $35.00t | 9780881462630 The Greatest Champion That never Was: The Life of W. L. “Young” Stribling Jaclyn Weldon White H828 | $30.00t | 9780881462524 Gone With the Wind: The Three Day premiere in Atlanta Herb Bridges† P431 | $30.00t | 9780881462456The Filming of Gone With the Wind Herb Bridges† P180 | $35.00t | 9780865546219

The Marriage of Faith: Christianity in Jane Austen and William Wordsworth Laura Dabundo H831 | $19.00t | 9780881462562 Father Mercer: The Story of a Baptist Statesman Anthony Chute P436 | $20.00t | 9780881462623John Milton, paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated edition Matthew Stallard, editor P440 | $24.00t | 9780881462685Lessons from Aquinas: A resolution of the problem of Faith and reason Creighton Rosental H829 | $45.00t | 9780881462531Don Browning and psychology: interpreting the Horizons of our Lives Terry D. Cooper P433 | $30.00t | 9780881462548Jesus of nazareth: Background, Witnesses, and Significance Gerald L. Borchert P438 | $25.00t | 9780881462661MMBB: A pioneer in employee Benefits—The First 100 Years Everett C. Goodwin H849 | $35.00t | 9780881463935Georgia: A Brief History Christopher C. Meyers and David Williams P446 | $25.00t | 9780881462791 e-book | $25.00 | 9780881463729

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