The Wildmons of Mississippi: A Story of Christian Dissent: "The Red Clay Hills of Tippah County" Tapa blanda - 2010

2010 green softcover in very good+ condition; some wear to covers, good binding, no marks inside. US media mail only for shipping. This autobiography tells the story of the Wildmon family and their struggle to survive in rural Mississippi during the Great Depression and the years that followed. In this book, author Allen Wildmon, renders life on a hard-scrabble farm, the merciless betrayal of nature, the spare pleasures offered by a subsistence farm, and the triumph of character over circumstance that led the author's brother Don to found the American Family Association and challenge the hegemony of a pop culture that has changed America - and not for the better.This narrative -- which begins in a cotton row in North Mississippi -- is characterized chiefly by its riveting details of life among people whose courage and simple faith are seldom encountered in the historic treatments of poor whites in the South. Wildmon exhibits total recall of an era that has passed into memory - the sights, sounds, and… Leer más

Outskirts press, 2010. Trade paperback. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine condition, appears unread. One crease to rear corner. ISBN 9781432750299.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.