A
Admiral Robert Penn Warren and the Snows of Winter 184–185
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn xiii, 3, 10–15, 18–20, 167, 193
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The 11
Aeschylus 72
Ahab’s Wife 165, 166, 168, 169–170, 171, 179
Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations 197
Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation 194
All Creatures Great and Small 94–97
Allen, C. Richard 195
Allman Brothers 102
All Over but the Shoutin’ 157
All the King's Men xiii, 111–112, 114, 118–120, 121, 126, 185
Ancient Law, The 106
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped Hide the Frank Family 195
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl 76, 82–83, 84–85, 195
Armageddon in Retrospect 195
Armies of the Night, The 65
At Play in the Fields of the Lord 111, 122, 124–125
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The 149–150
Avenue, Clayton City, The 153, 197
Awakening, The 107
B
Baldwin, James 40, 46–47, 48–51, 51, 57, 122, 194
Balzac, Honoré de 43
Bayou Folk 107
Beach Music 162
Best and the Brightest, The xiii, 68, 74
“Big Boy Leaves Home” 44
Big Russ and Me 159
Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness 196
Birth of a Nation, The 98, 196
“Black Pneumonia” 130
Bledsoe, Jerry 198
“Blues for Huckleberry” 193
Book of Genesis 182
Book of Prefaces, A 43
Boone 186
Bragg, Rick 37, 147, 155, 156–159, 197
Branch, Taylor 194
“Briar Patch, The" 114
“Bright and Morning Star” 44–45
Brinkley, Alan 196
Brokeback Mountain 184, 189–190
Brontë, Charlotte 166
Brooks, Cleanth 120
Brooks, Geraldine 165, 176–179, 198
Brother to a Dragonfly 121
Brown, Larry 107
Buckdancer’s Choice 100
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 129, 141–145, 197
C
Caldwell, Erskine vii
Carter, Dan T. 194
Carver, George Washington 53
Catch-22 86
Chase, Owen 169
Chaucer, Geoffrey 191
Childhood, A: The Biography of a Place 156
Childress, Mark 198
Clansman, The 98
Cleaver, Eldridge 40
Clemens, Samuel. See Twain, Mark
Cold Mountain 186
Color Purple, The 109
Confessions of Nat Turner, The 52, 65
Conroy, Pat 37, 147, 157, 160–164, 197
Covington, Dennis 184, 186–188
Covington, Vicki 198
Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America 198
Crane, Stephen 43
Crowther, Hal 198
Cured by Fire 156
Curtain of Green, A 21, 32–33, 103
Custer Died for Your Sins 145
D
Davidson, Donald 112
Dead Sea Scrolls 181
“Death of Santini, The” 163–164, 197
Defoe, Daniel 13
Descendant, The 106
“Desiree’s Baby” 107
Dillard, Annie 107
Dirty Work 107
Dixon, Thomas 98
Douglass, Frederick 52
DuBois, W.E.B. 52
E
Edgerton, Clyde 94, 102–106, 108, 110, 196
Edwards, Harry Stillwell 10
Ehle, John 197
Ellen Foster 107
Ellison, Ralph 3, 14–15, 15, 40, 53, 57, 193
Evans, Walker 23
F
Factories in the Field 138–139
Fair and Tender Ladies 107
Farewell to Arms, A 102
Father Coughlin and the Great Depression 196
Faulkner, William vii, xii, 31, 40, 54–55, 55, 60, 64, 112, 121, 160
Foote, Shelby 56
Forrest Gump 159
Frady, Marshall 65, 76, 93, 195
Frank, Anne 76, 81, 82–85, 195
Franklin, Tom 198
G
Gap Creek 186
Gates, Henry Louis 40, 54, 194
“Ghost of Tom Joad, The” 141, 197
Gibbons, Kaye 107
Giovanni, Nikki 40
Gold, Alison Leslie 195
Gone With the Wind 98
Grapes of Wrath, The xiii, 129, 131, 134, 136–138, 139–141, 141, 197
Greatest Generation, The 85
Great Santini, The 147, 160, 161–162
Grey, Zane 10
Guterson, David 111, 122, 125–128
Guthman, Edwin O. 195
Guthrie, Woody 129–130, 134, 140, 141
H
Halberstam, David xiii, 58, 65, 68–72, 74, 75, 191, 195
Haley, Alex 147, 148–153, 154–155, 155, 197
Hamlet 166
“Hard Kind of Courage, The” 194
Harvest Gypsies, The: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath 196
“Harvest Gypsies, The” 132–133
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 165, 167–168, 197
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The 21, 31–32, 194
Heller, Joseph 85
Help, The 186
Hemingway, Ernest xiii, 14, 31, 55, 102, 122, 191, 193
“Here Comes That Rainbow Again" 140
“Hester Prynne: Sinner, Victim, Object, Winner” 197
Het Achterhuis. See Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Hillenbrand, Laura 184, 190–191
Hohoff, Tay 28
Home Fires Burning 100
Homer 191
Huey Long 196
Hughes, Langston 57
Humphreys, Josephine 197
Hurston, Zora Neale 44, 57, 160
I
I'll Take My Stand 112–114, 196
In a Yellow Room 198
In Cold Blood 66
In Search of Willie Morris 195
Invisible Man 53
J
Jane Eyre 166
Jaws 171
Julius Caesar 166
K
Killers of the Dream xiii, 21, 33, 34–35, 36–37, 99
Kincaid, Nanci 198
King, Cassandra 198
Kingdom of God Is Within You, The 188
King, Larry L. xiii, 58–63, 65, 69, 74–75, 195
Kingsbury, Paul 196
Kingsolver, Barbara xiii
Knight, Michael 198
L
Last Girls, The 107
Lee, Harper 21–22, 23, 24, 26, 27–31, 38–39, 138, 186, 194
Leopard's Spots, The 98
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 23, 99
Lewis, Sinclair 43
Lie Down in Darkness 185
Lincoln, C. Eric 147, 153–154, 197
Linder, Douglas O. 194
Lonesome Dove 189
Love in the Ruins xi
Lynard Skynard 102
Lytle, Andrew 112
M
Macbeth 166
Making of the President, 1960, The 71
Mann, Thomas xiii
March 176
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman 174–175
“Mark Twain: Our Original Superstar” 15, 194
Matthiessen, Peter 111, 122, 124–125, 128
“Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers” 66–67. See also Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
McCorkle, Jill 108
McCullers, Carson 21, 31–32, 38
McWilliams, Carey 129, 138–139, 145
Melville, Herman 165, 166, 167, 168, 169
Messages from My Father 159
“Migrant Mother, The” 135, 196
Mitchell, Margaret 98
Moby Dick 166, 167, 168, 169, 171
Morrison, Toni 3, 13, 18, 57, 193
Morris, Willie 37, 58, 61, 63, 63–65, 68, 70, 74–75, 75, 93, 96, 195
Moviegoer, The 55
Murray, Albert 40, 52–57, 75, 112, 120, 194
My Dog Skip 96
N
Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex 169
Naslund, Sena Jeter 165–171, 171, 174–176, 179, 180–182, 197
New Journalism, The 195
New York Days 195
Nin, Anais vii
North Toward Home 64
Novello: Ten Years of Great American Writing 197
Nowhere Else on Earth 197
Now Is the Time 37
O
O’Connor, Flannery 21, 38, 55, 99, 102, 106
Old Man and Lesser Mortals, The xiii, 58, 62–63, 195
One Foot in Eden 186
Oral History 107
P
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 194
Percy, Walker xi, 40, 55–56, 121
Percy, William Alexander 55–56
Pilgrim at Tinker’s Creek 107
Plague, The xii
Poor But Proud 197
Portrait of an Average Woman. See Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
Powers, Ron 3, 16–17, 17, 18, 194
Prejudices 43
“Pride and Prejudice” 196
Prince of Tides, The 162
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number 76, 78–79, 195
Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy 195, 196
Prophets, The 91
Proust, Marcel 192
R
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers 58
Raney 103
Ransom, John Crowe 112
Refuge 186
Return of the Native, The 179
RFK: Collected Speeches 195
Right Stuff, The 66
Robinson Crusoe 13
Roots 147, 148–149, 151–152, 153, 155, 197
Rubin, Louis 94, 106, 107–108, 108
Run with the Horsemen 97
S
Salvation on Sand Mountain 184, 186–188
Sanders, Dori 94, 108–110, 196
Sartre, Jean Paul 46
Scarlet Letter, The 167–168, 197
Schlesinger, Arthur 72, 117, 196
Schrag, Peter 65
Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South 194
Seabiscuit 190
Seabrook, Andrea 198
Secret Annexe, The. See Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Shakespeare, William xii, 160, 165, 166
Shields, Charles J. 21, 27, 28, 194
Sinclair, Upton 43
Singleton, George 198
Slaughterhouse-Five 76, 86–88, 126
Sledge, E.B. 86
Smith, Lillian xiii, 21, 33–35, 36–37, 38, 99, 162, 194
Snow Falling on Cedars 111, 122, 125–128
Snow Leopard, The 122
South to a Very Old Place 40, 54–56, 120
Springsteen, Bruce 129, 141, 197
Steinbeck, John 129, 131–134, 135–138, 139, 139–141, 142, 145, 146, 196
“Stonewall Jackson’s Waterloo” 195
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 14
Strange Fruit 33
Styron, William 52, 64, 184–185
T
Talese, Gay 66
Tate, Allen 112
“This Land Is Your Land” 131
Thompson, Hunter S. 67
Timerman, Jacobo xiii, 76–79, 80, 90–91, 92, 195
To Kill a Mockingbird xiii, 21–22, 23, 27–30, 38–39, 194
Tolstoy, Leo 43, 166, 184, 188
“Tom Joad” 140
Trail of Tears 197
“Trials of ‘The Scottsboro Boys,’ The” 194
Twain, Mark 3, 10–20, 102, 112, 193
U
Uncle Tom's Cabin 14
Uncle Tom’s Children 40, 44–45, 46
Understanding Fiction 120
Understanding Poetry 120
Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy, The xiii, 58, 71–72
V
Van Gogh, Vincent 135
“Very Expensive Education of McGeorge Bundy, The” 68
Voices of Protest: Huey Long 196
Vonnegut, Kurt 76, 86–88, 89, 126, 195
W
Walking Across Egypt 94, 103–106, 196
War and Peace 166
Warlick, Ashley 198
Warmth of Other Suns, The 186
Warren, Robert Penn 37, 55, 99, 111–112, 114, 116, 118–120, 121, 126, 128, 162, 184–185
Washington, Booker T. 52–53, 109
Weller, George 88
Welty, Eudora 21, 32–33, 37, 38, 103, 105
“Whatever Happened to Brother Dave?” 195
White, Theodore 71
“Why I Live at the P.O.” 103
Wight, James Alfred. See Herriot, James
Wilder, Laura Ingalls 165, 166
Williamson, Joel 40, 46, 194, 196
Williams, T. Harry 117, 118, 196
With Music and Justice for All 194, 197
With the Old Breed 86
Wolfe, Thomas 106
Wolfe, Tom 58, 65, 66, 66–68, 195
Wollenberg, Charles 196
Woman Within, The 106
Working Days 197
Wright, Richard 31, 32, 40, 40–45, 46, 50, 51, 57, 64, 194
X
Y
Year of Wonders 165, 176–178, 179, 198
Z