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The summer when nonviolent resistance met state-sponsored abuse of power at its own doorstep in Nashville

A corrupt old Democrat.A surging Republican populist.The Democrat, hounded by corruption allegations; the Republican, dogged by business failures and ties to white supremacists.The Republican turned out thousands of screaming supporters for speeches blaming illegal immigrants and crime on the Democrats, and the Democrat plummeted in the polls.Sound familiar?The 91 Louisiana Governors race was supposed to be forgettable. But when former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke shocked the nation by ousting incumbent Republican Governor Buddy Roemer in the primary, the world took notice. Democrat Edwin Edwards, a former three-term governor and two-time corruption defendant, was left alone to face Duke in the general electionand he was going to lose.Then a little-known state committeewoman stepped in with evidence of Dukes nefarious past. Could her evidence be enough to sway the minds of fired-up voters, or would Louisiana welcome a far-right radical into the highest office in the state?Journalist Brian Fairbanks explores how the final showdown between Duke and Edwards in November 1991 led to a major shift in our national politics, as well as the rise of the radical right and white supremacist groups, and how history repeated itself in the 2016 presidential election. The story of these political wizards, almost forgotten by history, remains eerily prescient and disturbingly relevant, and a compulsive page-turner.

This is Mindy Fried's moving and colorful account of caring for her 97-year-old father, Manny - an actor, writer, and labour organiser - in the final year of his life. This memoir chronicles the actions of two sisters as they discover concentric circles of support for their father and attempt to provide him with an experience of "engaged aging" in an assisted living facility.

Brings together an eclectic group of young scholars to examine the complementary notions of history and nostalgia as they are expressed through video games and in gaming culture. By focusing on specific games, historical periods and media ecologies, this work looks at the related topics of nostalgia for classic gaming.

Benevolent Orders, the Sons of Ham, Prince Hall Freemasonsthese and other African American lodges created a social safety net for members across Tennessee. During their heyday between 1865 and 1930, these groups provided members with numerous resources, such as sick benefits and assurance of a proper burial, opportunities for socialization and leadership, and the chance to work with local churches and schools to create better communities. Many of these groups gradually faded from existence, but their legacy endures in the form of the cemeteries the lodges left behind. These Black cemeteries dot the Tennessee landscape, but few know their history or the societies of care they represent. To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead is the first book-length look at these cemeteries and the lodges that fostered them. This book is a must-have for genealogists, historians, and family members of the people buried in these cemeteries.

Since the fall of 2014, 'The Advice King' has been one of the most widely read sections of alt-weekly the Nashville Scene. Three Chords and Condominium contains the best of those columns, with new 'In-the-Meantime' notes, a new introduction, and a foreword by Tracy Moore.

Unmasked is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy occurred in the COVID summer of 2020. State political failures, local negotiations among political and public health leaders, and community (dis)belief about the virus resulted in Okoboji being declared a hotspot just before the Independence Day weekend, when an influx of half a million people visit the town. The story is both personal and political. Author Emily Mendenhall, an anthropologist at Georgetown University, grew up in Okoboji, and her family still lives there. As the events unfolded, Mendenhall was in Okoboji, where she spoke formally with over 100 people and observed a community that rejected public health guidance, revealing deep-seated mistrust in outsiders and strong commitments to local thinking. Unmasked is a fascinating and heartbreaking account of where people put their trust, and how isolationist popular beliefs can be in Americas small communities.

Jacques-Timothe Boucher Sieur de Montbrun (anglicized to Demonbreun), born 1747 in Quebec, set the bar for country musics stories of cheating, gambling, drinking, and being the boss more than two centuries before anybody thought of supporting the storyline with a 1-4-5-4 chord progression and a fiddle. Lightly called a fur trader, he came to the city to make his fortune and fame, much like songwriters today. Looking back, it would be easy to call Demonbreun, the son of French Canadian near-royalty and brother to two nuns, a spoiled child who did what he wanted, a classic-case misogynist and polygamist, a conceited adventurer. He was a man who conned the Spanish governor out of a war, carried on graceful correspondence with Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, owned several slaves, may have served as a spy, and was a decorated veteran. He fought in the Revolutionary War, extraordinarily so it seems, given the number of land grants he received across Kentucky and Tennessee. Hes also known around Nashville as the guy who lived in a cave. Author Elizabeth Elkins sorts through the legends and nails down the facts in order to present the true story of Nashvilles First Citizen.

In 1779 John Donelson loaded his family and slaves into a boat at the present site of Kingsport, Tennessee. Their journey into the wilderness led to the founding of what is now Nashville. In 2016, photographer John Guider retraced the Donelson party's journey. This photo book contains more than 120 striking images from the course of the journey.

Jaguars Tomb is a novel in three parts, written by three interconnected characters. Part one, Hidden Variables by Mara Celina Igarzbal, is narrated by Bruno Seguer. Seguer in turn is the author of the second part, Recounting from Zero (Contar desde zero), in which Evelynne Harrington, author of the third, is a central character. Harrington, finally, is the author of Uncertainty (La incertidumbre), whose protagonist is the dying Igarzbal. Each of the three parts revolves around the octagonal room that is alternately the jaguars tomb, the central space of the torture center, and the heart of an abandoned house that hides an adulterous affair. The novel, by Argentine author Angelica Gorodischer, is both an intriguing puzzle and a meditation on how to write about, or through, violence, injustice, and loss. Among Gorodischers many novels, Jaguars Tomb most directly addresses the abductions and disappearances that occurred under the Argentine military dictatorship of 197683. This is the fourth of Gorodischers books translated into English. The first, Kalpa Imperialtranslated by Ursula Le Guinwas selected for the New York Times summer reading list in 2003.

Wide-ranging essays on sex and sexuality in the modern Middle East and North Africa

Wide-ranging essays on sex and sexuality in the modern Middle East and North Africa

Was Nashville once home to a giant race of humans? No, but in 1845, you could have paid a quarter to see the remains of one who allegedly lived here before The Flood. That summer, Middle Tennessee well diggers had unearthed the skeleton of an American mastodon. Before it went on display, it was modified and augmented with wooden ';bones' to make it look more like a human being and passed off as an antediluvian giant. Then, like so many Nashvillians, after a little success here, it went on tour and disappeared from history. But this fake history of a race of Pre-Nashville Giants isn't the only bad history of what, and who, was here before Nashville. Sources written for schoolchildren and the public lead us to believe that the first Euro-Americans arrived in Nashville to find a pristine landscape inhabited only by the buffalo and boundless nature, entirely untouched by human hands. Instead, the roots of our city extend some 14,000 years before Illinois lieutenant-governor-turned-fur-trader Timothy Demonbreun set foot at Sulphur Dell. During the period between about AD 1000 and 1425, a thriving Native American culture known to archaeologists as the Middle Cumberland Mississippian lived along the Cumberland River and its tributaries in today's Davidson County. Earthen mounds built to hold the houses or burials of the upper class overlooked both banks of the Cumberland near what is now downtown Nashville. Surrounding densely packed village areas including family homes, cemeteries, and public spaces stretched for several miles through Shelby Bottoms, and the McFerrin Park, Bicentennial Mall, and Germantown neighborhoods. Other villages were scattered across the Nashville landscape, including in the modern neighborhoods of Richland, Sylvan Park, Lipscomb, Duncan Wood, Centennial Park, Belle Meade, White Bridge, and Cherokee Park. This book is the first public-facing effort by legitimate archaeologists to articulate the history of what happened here before Nashville happened.

The Sculpture of William Edmondson is the first large-scale museum examination of the artist's career in over twenty years. The exhibition draws on new scholarship and methodologies to contextualize Edmondson's sculpture. This catalogue expands on the exhibition, including photos of Edmondson's grave markers and his yard art.

The Xhroll, an alien humanoid race whose infertility is bringing them near extinction, come into contact with a crew of fertile human astronauts. Their encounter on a remote space station will have significant consequences for both species when a human male winds up impregnated. Author Elia Barcelos setup is funny and feminist, and it raises questions of what it means to be male or femaleprescient, considering this novel was first published twenty-five years ago. The anniversary is being celebrated now with the first English-language edition, translated by veteran sci-fi translators Yolanda Molina-Gaviln and Andrea Bell, who also provide a critical introduction.