Law scholar and historian and given us a book for the ages in the midst of a pandemic so you said your goal what do you mean by that quick. Great question i wanted to write a book that would be a first draft of the history for the year of covid and beyond but to speak to the interested reader not just the specialist in the field i got the value added to readers you are fascinated of the legal issues in the last six months that really be on most peoples agenda until now. We never thought about past epidemics but we are now what we can learn from them and what do we know when it will be over so at the end of your book to ask you more about this question america has two histories one is far more appealing in the months and years ahead they will hold the power between them lets hope they make the right choice. I will be asking you more what that choice is at the end of the interview but for now , what is the ugly part of america . The ugly part is the discrimination against racial minoriti
Books from the exhibit by parnassus books, where a portion of the proceeds go to benefit the festival directly. Just a bit of an introduction for each of our and then a little explanation as to what were doing. Charles Reagan Wilson is the southern way of life, meaning and culture and civilization in American South is substantial volume. The traces of the south, the colonial period to the start, the 21st century, certainly in the making for decades, wilsons book examines the regional consciousness of the south through. Three concepts southern civilization nation the southern way of life and Southern Living each is thoroughly historic sized its cultural moment. Southern civilization runs from the colonial period to world war one, the southern way of runs from the 1920s to 1960s, and Southern Living runs from the 1970s to the 21st century. A unifying theme through his book is the study of race and, religion and their continuing and changing role in the various imaginary and constructed o
Mississippi festival board of directors, i had the pleasure of working with scott on the board. Hes something of a lifer. Hes been on the board since the very of the book festival in 2015. Scotts also a member of the mississippi arts commission, the Mississippi Institute of arts and letters hes an ardent champion of arts. Hes the coowner of books and cat island coffee, house and Pass Christian and gulfport gulfport. Thank you very much and welcome to our session this morning on nature and the environment for of my life, my entry to america in history was through the biographies of our founding fathers, washington, jefferson, franklin, and then through to lincoln, frederick douglass, Theodore Martin luther king, chisholm, henrietta lacks, james baldwin, eisenhower, among many others. But then two years ago, i was fortunate enough to read jack davis as the bald eagle. And then a whole new world opened to me and missed the little earth upon which our country was founded and without which
Mississippi festival board of directors, i had the pleasure of working with scott on the board. Hes something of a lifer. Hes been on the board since the very of the book festival in 2015. Scotts also a member of the mississippi arts commission, the Mississippi Institute of arts and letters hes an ardent champion of arts. Hes the coowner of books and cat island coffee, house and Pass Christian and gulfport gulfport. Thank you very much and welcome to our session this morning on nature and the environment for of my life, my entry to america in history was through the biographies of our founding fathers, washington, jefferson, franklin, and then through to lincoln, frederick douglass, Theodore Martin luther king, chisholm, henrietta lacks, james baldwin, eisenhower, among many others. But then two years ago, i was fortunate enough to read jack davis as the bald eagle. And then a whole new world opened to me and missed the little earth upon which our country was founded and without which
Mississippi festival board of directors, i had the pleasure of working with scott on the board. Hes something of a lifer. Hes been on the board since the very of the book festival in 2015. Scotts also a member of the mississippi arts commission, the Mississippi Institute of arts and letters hes an ardent champion of arts. Hes the coowner of books and cat island coffee, house and Pass Christian and gulfport gulfport. Thank you very much and welcome to our session this morning on nature and the environment for of my life, my entry to america in history was through the biographies of our founding fathers, washington, jefferson, franklin, and then through to lincoln, frederick douglass, Theodore Martin luther king, chisholm, henrietta lacks, james baldwin, eisenhower, among many others. But then two years ago, i was fortunate enough to read jack davis as the bald eagle. And then a whole new world opened to me and missed the little earth upon which our country was founded and without which