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Alabama afternoons : profiles and conversations / Roy Hoffman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffman, Roy, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alabama--History--Anecdotes.
- Alabama.
- Alabama--Biography--Anecdotes.
- Alabama--Social life and customs--Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Alabama Afternoons is a collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman. Written as Sunday feature stories for the Mobile Press-Register with additional pieces from the New York Times, Preservation, and Garden & Gun, these profiles preserve the individual stories-and the individual voices within the stories-that help to define one of the most distinctive states in the union. Hoffman recounts his personal visits with writer Mary Ward Brown
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The makers
- pt. 2. The tellers
- pt. 3. The journeyers
- pt. 4. Witnesses to the movement
- pt. 5. Down back roads
- pt. 6. Different windows on Dixie
- pt. 7. Personal sojourns.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8560-6
- OCLC:
- 772845309
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