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Books by Hal Crowther
  | | Freedom Fighters and Hell Raisers A Gallery of Memorable Southerners by Hal Crowther, Silas House Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2018 by Blair ISBN-13: 978-0-932112-78-1, ISBN: 0-932112-78-1 ""I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin," wrote journalist Molly Ivins. Ivins is one of the biggest hell-raisers profiled in this collection of essays by Hal Crowther, but there is plenty hell-raising and freedom-fighting to go around. Crowther is a writer whose own career is marked by sharp political and social commentary in the pages of national and regional outle ..." |
 | | Gather at the River(1st Edition) Notes from the Post-Millennial South (Southern Literary Studies) by Hal Crowther, Louis D. Rubin, Mary E. White, Fred Hobson Hardcover, 165 Pages, Published 2005 by Louisiana State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-3100-8, ISBN: 0-8071-3100-8 "To read Hal Crowther is to find yourself agreeing with views on topics you never knew you cared so much about. In Gather at the River, Crowther extends the wide-angle vision of Southern life presented in his highly acclaimed collection Cathedrals of Kudzu. He cuts to the heart of recent political, religious, and cultural issues but pauses to appreciate the sweet things that the South has to offer, like music, baseball, great writers, ..." |
 | | An Infuriating American(1st Edition) The Incendiary Arts of H. L. Mencken (Muse Books) by Hal Crowther Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Iowa Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60938-281-0, ISBN: 1-60938-281-1 "As American journalism shape-shifts into multimedia pandemonium and seems to diminish rapidly in influence and integrity, the controversial career of H. L. Mencken, the most powerful individual journalist of the twentieth century, is a critical text for anyone concerned with the balance of power between the free press, the government, and the corporate plutocracy. Mencken, the belligerent newspaperman from Baltimore, was not only the mo ..." |
 | | Freedom Fighters and Hell Raisers A Gallery of Memorable Southerners by Hal Crowther, Silas House Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2018 by Blair ISBN-13: 978-0-932112-77-4, ISBN: 0-932112-77-3 ""I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin," wrote journalist Molly Ivins. Ivins is one of the biggest hell-raisers profiled in this collection of essays by Hal Crowther, but there is plenty hell-raising and freedom-fighting to go around. Crowther is a writer whose own career is marked by sharp political and social commentary in the pages of national and regional outle ..." |
 | | Something's Rising(1st Edition) Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal by Silas House, Jason Howard, Lee Smith, Hal Crowther Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-2546-6, ISBN: 0-8131-2546-4 "Like an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something's Rising gives a stirring voice to the lives, culture, and determination of the people fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal in the coalfields of central Appalachia. Each person's story, unique and unfiltered, articulates the hardship of living in these majestic mountains amid the daily desecration of the land by the coal industry because of America's insistence on ..." |
 | | Cathedrals of Kudzu(Updated) A Personal Landscape of the South by Hal Crowther, Steven Cragg Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2002 by Louisiana State Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2788-9, ISBN: 0-8071-2788-4 "Foreword by Fred Hobson and illustrations by Steven Cragg. Hal Crowther prides himself on being one of the last generalists in a professon of specialists. His eloquent essays on culture, history, politics, religion, arts, and literature have established him as one of the most influential Southern journalists of his generation. Cathedrals of Kudzu represents his ambition to "cover" the South-"its writers, politicians, geniuses, saints ..." |
 | | Unarmed but Dangerous A Withering Attack on All Things Phony, Foolish, and Fundamentally Wrong With America Today by Hal Crowther Hardcover, 330 Pages, Published 1995 by Longstreet Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-56352-193-5, ISBN: 1-56352-193-8 "One of the nation's finest editorial columnists offers incisive commentary on a variety of issues, taking aim at callous polluters, craven politicians, addle-pated celebrities, image-mongers of every type--in short, everyone who has sold decency and integrity down the river in the name of the almighty dollar." |
 | | Cathedrals of Kudzu(1st Edition) A Personal Landscape of the South by Hal Crowther ., Steven Cragg, Forward Fred Hobson, Cathedrals Of Kudzu Hardcover, 177 Pages, Published 2000 by Louisiana State Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2594-6, ISBN: 0-8071-2594-6 "Foreword by Fred Hobson and illustrations by Steven Cragg. Hal Crowther prides himself on being one of the last generalists in a professon of specialists. His eloquent essays on culture, history, politics, religion, arts, and literature have established him as one of the most influential Southern journalists of his generation. Cathedrals of Kudzu represents his ambition to "cover" the South-"its writers, politicians, geniuses, saints ..." |
 | | Introducing Don DeLillo(Updated) by Frank Lentricchia, Hal Crowther, Don Delillo, Daniel Aaron, Professor Anthony Decurtis, Charles Molesworth Paperback, 221 Pages, Published 1991 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1144-7, ISBN: 0-8223-1144-5 "If you want to find out what a rock critic, a syndicated columnist, and scholars of American literature have to say about one of America's most important contemporary novelists, turn to "Introducing Don DeLillo. "Placing the author's work in a cultural context, this is the first book-length collection on DeLillo, adding considerably to the emerging critical discourse on his work.Diversity is the key to this striking assemblage of cultur ..." |
 | | Something's Rising(Reprint) Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal by Silas House, Jason Howard, Lee Smith, Hal Crowther Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-3383-6, ISBN: 0-8131-3383-1 "Like an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something's Rising gives a stirring voice to the lives, culture, and determination of the people fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal in the coalfields of central Appalachia. Each person's story, unique and unfiltered, articulates the hardship of living in these majestic mountains amid the daily desecration of the land by the coal industry because of America's insistence on ..." |
 | | Muse Bks. An Infuriating American : The Incendiary Arts of H. L. Mencken by Hal Crowther 92 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Iowa Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60938-309-1, ISBN: 1-60938-309-5 "... Jonathan, 12, 23, 28 Taibbi, Matt, 13 Teachout, Terry, 5, 82 Thomas, John Martin, 22, 24 Thompson, Hunter S., 13, 22, ... Edmund, 2–3, 7 Wilson, Woodrow, 32, 56 Wolfe, Thomas, 28 Wordsworth, William, 19, 44 Wright, Richard, 47–48, 59 , ..." |
 | | Cornbread Nation 4(1st Edition) The Best of Southern Food Writing (Cornbread Nation: Best of Southern Food Writing) (Cornbread Nation Ser.) by Dale Volberg Reed, John Shelton Reed, John T. Edge, Terri Pischoff Wuerthner, Brett Anderson, Jim Auchmutey, Bernard Lafayette Jr, Wendell Brock, Timothy C. Davis, Lolis Elie, Amy Evans, Beth Fennelly, Marcie Ferris, William Ferris, Tom Hanchett, Jessica B. Harris, Mary Hufford, Dan Huntley, Matthew Lee, Ted Lee, Frederick Opie, Audrey Petty, Julia Reed, Robb Walsh, R.W. Apple, Deb Barshafsky, Shane K. Bernard, Rick Brooks, Shaun Chavis, Pat Conroy, Hal Crowther, Candice Dyer, Jim Ferguson, Peggy Grodinsky, Jack Hitt, Dr Fred Thompson, Cindy Lamb, Christopher Lang, Carroll Leggett, David Leite, Edna Lewis, Michael Mcfee, Jerry Leath Mills, Jim Myers, T. Edward Nickens, Carol Penn-Romine, Molly O'neill, Fred Reenstjerna, Mary Tutwiler, Judy Walker, Simone Wilson, Mr Rick Bragg, Fred W. Sauceman, Will B. Campbell, Sara Camp Milam, Southern Foodways Alliance Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3089-1, ISBN: 0-8203-3089-2 "This new collection in the Southern Foodways Alliance's popular series serves up a fifty-three-course celebration of southern foods, southern cooking, and the people and traditions behind them. Editors Dale Volberg Reed and John Shelton Reed have combed magazines, newspapers, books, and journals to bring us a "best of" gathering that is certain to satisfy everyone from omnivorous chowhounds to the most discerning student of regional foo ..." |
 | | Southern Literary Studies Gather at the River : Notes from the Post-Millennial South by Hal Crowther 184 Pages, Published 2005 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-5245-4, ISBN: 0-8071-5245-5 "“He had begun to be haunted that his epitaph might well be: 'His was a life of brave beginnings. . . .'” I suspect Frady was angling for a better epitaph when he secured Jesse Jackson to preach his funeral. (“He could paint pictures with words,” ..." |
 | | Nashville(1st Edition) An American Self Portrait by Bruce Feiler, Richard Schweid, Will D. Campbell, Robin Hood, Reginald Stuart, Roy Blount Jr., John Egerton, E. Thomas Wood, Lamar Alexander, Hal Crowther, Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain, Fred Russell, David Halberstam Hardcover, 374 Pages, Published 2005 by Beaten Biscuit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9706702-1-2, ISBN: 0-9706702-1-4 "Nashville: An American Self Portrait captures the essence of the city at a pivotal time in its history. The year 2000 a period of signal events: a presidential primary season with two Nashvillians seeking the nomination; a fall run for the White House that Democrat Al Gore won at the ballot box yet lost in the electoral college; the 75th anniversary of the Grand Ole Opry; a farewell crusade by the Reverend Billy Graham; the 22nd decenni ..." |
 | | SOUTHERN CULTURES SPRING 2004, VOLUME 10, NUMBER 1. by Harry L. Watson, Alice Walker, William R. Ferris, Brooks Blevins, Lee Smith, Hal Crowther, Robert Hill Long, John Shelton Reed, Louis M. Kyriakoudes, Ron Rash, Robert Reed Flournoy Paperback, 109 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of North Carolna Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5329-0, ISBN: 0-8078-5329-1 "This quarterly occupies a unique position among publications about the South by targeting both an academic and an educated lay audience. The rich array of photographs and graphics, and the sincere and effective attempt at reader appeal, go well beyond what is attempted by most journals. This edition features Alice Walker and essays by Brooks Blevins and Lee Smith" |
 | | Dear Jesse [VHS] by Karen Brown, Patsy Clarke, Hal Crowther, Jaki Shelton Greene, Allan Gurganus, directed by Tim Kirkman Vhs Tape, Published 1999 by New Yorker Video Color, Ntsc ISBN-13: 978-1-56730-200-4, ISBN: 1-56730-200-9 "Tim Kirkman's plainspoken documentary Dear Jesse addresses the five-term "Senator No" from North Carolina repeatedly over the course of its 85 minutes. Although Helms never appears to respond, it's easy to anticipate his answers, especially after the openly gay Kirkman offers countless close-ups of sensational newspaper headlines as well as insensitive replies, typed neatly on Senate letterhead, from Helms's office to concerned constitu ..." |
 | | Unarmed But Dangerous by Hal Crowther Hardcover, Published 1995 by Longstreet Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56532-193-9, ISBN: 1-56532-193-6 |
 | | Lewis Nordan(1st Edition) Humor, Heartbreak, and Hope by Barbara A. Baker, Kate Beard, Marcel Arbeit, Manuel Broncano, Hal Crowther, John Dufresne, Clyde Edgerton, Edward J. Dupuy, Roberta S. Maguire, Lee Martin, Jo Mcdougall, Lewis Nordan, Constance C. Relihan, Robert Rudnicki, Terrell L. Tebbetts, Don Noble Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2012 by Pebble Hill Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5681-1, ISBN: 0-8173-5681-9 ""Lewis Nordan: Humor, Heartbreak, and Hope" examines and celebrates the work of southern writer Lewis Buddy Nordan, whose stories reveal his own pain and humanity and in their honesty force us to recognize ourselves within them. Written by scholars and fiction writers who represent a fascinating range of experience from a Shakespearean scholar to English professors to a former student of Nordan s this is a rich array of essays, poems, a ..." |
 | | Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, Volume II North Carolina by Casey Clabough, Michael Chitwood Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2017 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-139-3, ISBN: 1-68003-139-2 |
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