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"Winters Bone" by Daniel Woodrell. (Review by Gary Carden)
If you remember Charles Portis’ wonderful 1968 novel, True Grit (and the subsequent Kim Darby/John Wayne film), you are likely to have a nostalgic regard for plucky Arkansas teenagers who just get up and go on when life smacks them down.
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"Lamb in His Bosom" - An Editorial by Gary Carden
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER CAPTURES BRUTALITY, BEAUTY OF APPALACHIA
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"The Widow of the South" by Robert Hicks. (Review by Gary Carden)
Franklin, Tennessee. It is November 1864, and many of us (Civil War buffs) have been here before. Hicks’ account of this historic disaster contains a catalogue of bizarre details gleaned from historic records of the event.
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"For You, They Signed," by Marilyn Boyer (Review by Bill Potter)
In the best traditions of earlier American biographers, Marilyn Boyer has written composite biographies of the signers of The Declaration of Independence, at once retelling their stories from childhood to death but also drawing from their lives illustrations of exemplary moral character that should speak to the modern world.
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"Signing Their Lives Away," by Denise Kiernan and Joseph D’Agnese (Review by Bill Potter)
In the summer of 1776, fifty six men signed their names to a document that could well have confirmed their reservations with the royal hangman. Realizing they had everything to lose—family, property, and life itself, they nonetheless pledged themselves to secession from the mightiest nation on earth and to the creation of independent states.