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Across the U.S., large retail chain stores have created a monoculture of
automobile- based shopping, driving out independently owned businesses and decimating downtown shopping districts. The numbers are staggering--Wal-Mart, the big gorilla, now receives 10 percent of American's spending dollars, and Home Depot gobbles up nearly half of all home-improvement sales. Mitchell, an advisor to communities on retail development and independent business, compares these companies' tactics to European colonialism--they enter a community and plunder its resources, rather than adding value and enhancing the local economy. Gobbling up land, creating sprawl, and even knocking down historical landmarks in their quest for total dominance, these powerful corporations let nothing stand in their way. From shrinking the middle class to diminishing culture and landscape, the effects of the big-box retailers are far reaching, but Mitchell has uncovered a movement to curb the proliferation of the megaretailers and create policies that favor local enterprises. Her call to action reveals the hidden costs of those "low prices" promoted by the big-box bullies and gives hope to local entrepreneurs and concerned citizens alike. David Siegfried
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“This is an important book—important and gripping. For the first time in print we can read the details of the nuclear bombardment of Nagasaki, Japan, as written by the first American reporter on the terrible scene. . . [George Weller’s] reports, so long delayed but now salvaged by his son, at last have saved our history from the military censorship that would have preferred to have time to sanitize the ghastly details . . . Also delayed by MacArthur’s censorship were Weller’s dispatches from his visits to American prison camps [w]here he uncovered the Japanese military’s savage treatment of their American prisoners . . . There is so much in this volume that we never knew or have long forgotten. This volume of the last generation’s history is an important reminder, a warning to inspire civilian vigilance.”
—Walter Cronkite, from the Foreword
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist George Weller lived in Macon for a
time after the war. His son, Anthony Weller, editor of this volume, was
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Southern hip-hop is a fantastic affirmation of regional culture. In Third Coast, Roni Sarig traces dozens of genres birthed from their geographical environs: Atlanta crunk, Miami bass, Houston screwed & chopped.
Sarig unveils detailed networks of producers, moguls and musicians, emphasizing intricate social connections rather than the beats themselves. It is probably necessary. The beats, often effortlessly avant-garde, are tight packages of trends, references and other artifacts of a rich dialogue. Here, Third Coast excels, as when Sarig traces the transmutation of “Drag Rap,” a 1986 12-inch by obscure Queens act The Showboys into “Triggerman,” the foundation of New Orleans bounce.
If dry, Third Coast is also clear-headed: an essential document of the last two decades of pop. All it’s missing—sorely, unfortunately—are lists of recommended cuts. Oh, well. Grab a highlighter.
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Skydog reveals the true story of legendary guitarist Duane Allman: his childhood and musical awakening; his struggling first bands; his hard-won mastery of the slide guitar; his emergence as an A-list studio musician; his creation of the Allman Brothers Band; his tragic death at age 24, and his thriving musical legacy. Author Randy Poe taps the people who knew Duane best — along the way chronicling the tumultuous era that shaped Allman and his music, and that he in turn transformed. Featuring a foreword by ZZ Top’s Billy F Gibbons, Skydog includes a comprehensive discography of Duane Allman’s work with his own bands and on other artists’ recordings, a meticulously researched roundup of his studio and stage instruments, and a look at the continuing lives and careers of Allman’s friends and band mates. |
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"Cassandra King has written a wonderful and uplifting tale..."
-Fannie Flagg, author of Fried Green Tomatoes
" ... readers who like a well-written novel with realistic, well-developed and a believable-yet-unpredictable plot should pick up King's latest effort."
-Florida Times-Union
" exquisite ... pure magic!"
-Greensboro News & Record
Cassandra was in our store for a signing May 8th. A limited number of
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Here are Stanley Booth's acclaimed writings about the South and the music that emanates from it. Rythm Oil--you don't have to know how to spell "rhythm" to have it in your body and soul--is a potion sold on Beale Street in Memphis. The home of Sun Records, B.B. King, Elvis Presley, Howlin' Wolf, and Jerry Lee Lewis, Memphis is also the home of fantastic stories and broke-down dreams. As Booth makes his way from Memphis to the Mississippi Delta to the depths of the Georgia woods exploring the sounds, the music, and the culture of the American South, "he has produced some of the most gracefully written, thoughtful, and thought-stirring musings on the characters--the famous and the forgotten, the infamous and the unknown--who command the kingdom or drift through the shadowland of the South's rich-chorded patrimony"
Nick Tosches writing for the L.A. Times |
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This memoir conveys the experiences, first of my parents and subsequently of our family, the only Chinese people living in Macon, Georgia between 1928 and 1956. It describes our family's isolated existence running a laundry, enduring loneliness as well as racial prejudice for over 20 years, why and how it moved across the continent to live in a Chinese community, and how each family member adjusted to the challenges and opportunities of their new lives. |
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Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the pervasive racism of the era, Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius by the age of thirty-two. By combining the influences of gospel, jazz, blues, and country music, he invented, almost single-handedly, what became known as soul. And throughout a career spanning more than a half century, Ray Charles remained in complete control of his life and his music, allowing nobody to tell him what he could and couldn't do. As the Chicago Sun-Times put it, Brother Ray is "candid, explicit, sometimes embarrassing, often hilarious, always warm, touching, and deeply human-just like his music." |
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Though best known for his close friendships with Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and Carson McCullers, Mr. Massee himself was quite a wit, which becomes quickly evident when reading this unfinished autobiography, which has been published posthumously. Abounds with humorous stories of members of Macon's prominent old families, many of them originating from the author's father, Jordan Sr., a larger-than-life figure and acclaimed storyteller after whom the character of Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" was patterned. |
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