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Can reading about the Battle of Gettysburg improve your day? Your life? If you enjoy fast-paced story-telling that inspires self-discovery, here are over 200 life-lessons from 88 stories that are stimulating takeaways that reveal how character is defined, how your success can be achieved, and why your own leadership is in your DNA. Open to any page for a quick read to expand your outlook and enrich your life. The author spent over 10 years wri...

While on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, journalist and novelist Paul Hemphill wrote of that pivotal moment in the late sixties when traditional defenders of the hillbilly roots of country music were confronted by the new influences and business realities of pop music. Originally published in 1970, The Nashville Sound shows the resulting identity crisis as a fascinating, even poignant, moment in country music and entertainment history.

Hank Williams' story reads like fiction: dirt-poor beginnings as a sickly child, learning music from a black street singer and refining it in raucous honky-tonks during the Depression, and emerging as a Grand Ole Opry star. He mined his experiences to write songs that will live forever.

In this lively and fascinating book, noted writer and Auburn alum Paul Hemphill tells the story of the progress of Auburn from that first game coached by Auburn legend George Petrie through the team's growth and development into the national force it is today. Hemphill records the many highs and occasional lows, and the heartbreak and jubilation each caused, noting the standouts great and small on the way.

More than an anatomy of a church arson, "The Ballad of Little River" is a poignant but hard-hitting biography of one of the poorest areas in the United States--where deer outnumber people. A cauldron of unresolved racial and familial conflict, of heat, boredom, gossip, and grudges, Little River, Alabama, gained notoriety in 1997 as the site of the U.S. government's first conviction under a new hate-crimes law intended to stop a rash of fires ...

A story about love and the loss of innocence at the bottom of the most minor league in baseball--the Class D Alabama-Florida League in the 1950's.

Birmingham's history of racial violence and bigotry is the centerpiece of this intense and affecting memoir about family, society, and politics in a city still haunted by its notorious past.

These stories, often bittersweet, emotional, and mythic are a veteran journalist's collection of sportswriting on the blue-collar South.