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Who Owns America: A New Declaration of Independence (1936/1999)
Edited by Herbert Agar and Allen Tate ~ With a New Foreward
and Notes on Contributors, and Select Bibliography by Edward
S. Shapiro (Transaction Publishers)
This is the classic sequel to I'll Take My Stand, the famous defense of the South's agrarian culture. This book sets forth the ideal originally Southern and American dream: the majority of men should be politically and economically independent, not the dependents of either big government or big business. Herbert Agar was a columnist for the Louisville Courier-Dispatch from 1935-1035 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1936. Allen Tate (1899-1979) was a Southern Agrarian, a notable poet, and man of letters. Edward S. Shapiro is professor of American History at Seton Hall University. 499 pages ~ Hardcover only, #B102HC, $24.95.
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Fire in the Cradle: Charleston Literary Heritage (1999)
By David Aiken (Charleston Press)
"Beautiful as a dream, tinged with romance, consecrated by tradition, glorified by history, rising from the very bosom of the waves, like a fairy city created by the enchanter's wand, Charleston affords a fit theme for poet, novelist, historian, and tourist," said Arthur Mazyck in his 1875 Guide to Charleston. This is the first and only work bringing together a representative collection of Charleston authors. The neglect of Charleston's astonishing literary accomplishments is an attack by modernity on the history, movements, and traditions of Southern life and literature. Truly, this is a breath of fresh air filling a void in our knowledge of Southern ways. 238 pages ~ Hardcover only, #B103HC, $35.00.
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Unsettling of America:
Culture and Agriculture By Wendell Berry With a
new Forward by the Author University of California Press Since
its original publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America
has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it,
Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development
and spiritual discipline. But today's agribusiness takes farming
out of its cultural context and away from families, and as
a nation we are thus more estranged from the land - from the
intimate knowledge, love, and care of it
Sadly, as Berry notes in this edition, his arguments and
observations are even more relevant than ever. We continue
to suffer loss of community, the devaluation of human work,
and the destruction of nature under an economics dedicated
to the mechanistic pursuit of products and profits. Although
"this book has not had the happy fate of being proved
wrong," Berry writes, there are good people working
"to make something comely and enduring of our life
on this earth." Wendell Berry is one of those people,
writing and working, as ever, with passion, eloquence, and
conviction.
Wendell Berry - writer, poet, teacher, naturalist, and
farmer - is the author of many notable works, including
The Gift of Good Land; Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community;
and Fidelity. He and his family live - and farm - in Port
Royal, Kentucky. Ix plus 234 pages ~ Paperback only, #B327PB,
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Liberty and Slavery (1856) By Albert Taylor Bledsoe (Crown
Rights)
Bledsoe shows that slavery was not at odds with the Constitution and the understanding of true liberty. He argues that the agenda of the Abolitionist movement in mid-1860's was to utterly destroy constitutional government and to substitute a lawless egalitarianism which would make a slave of all to the centralised state. 384 pages ~ Paperback only, #B116PB, $14.00.
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A Better Guide than Reason: Federalists & Anti-Federalists
(1979/1994) By M.E. Bradford ~ With a new Introduction By
Russell Kirk (Transaction Publishers)
In this seminal volume, M.E. Bradford, focusing on the Declaration of Independence, shows that neither equality of condition nor full equality of individual rights for every inhabitant is foreseen by that document, only constitutional equality. The American Revolution was fought against concentrated power, and he asserts that the Declaration is violated whenever such powers are granted in its name. He is, indeed, as Russell Kirk writes, "a formidable and learned champion of the permanent things in our patrimony of culture and politics." Bradford was, until his death in 1993, Professor of Humanities at the University of Dallas in Texas. Russell Kirk, editor of the Library of Conservative Thought Series, authored thirty books in a variety of fields and has been a visiting distinguished professor on both sides of the Atlantic. 239 pages ~ Hardcover only, #B117HC, $34.95.
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Empire and Nation: Letter from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
By John Dickinson (1767) Letters from a Federal Farmer By
Richard Henry Lee (1787) Second Edition edited by Forrest
McDonald (1962) (Liberty Fund: 1999)
These agrarians deal with the questions of the never-ending
problem of the distribution of power in a broad and complex federal system
and this extensive continuing interference in their lives. xvi plus 174
pages ~ For the hardcover (#B258HC, $18.95).
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Empire and Nation: Letter from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
By John Dickinson (1767) Letters from a Federal Farmer By
Richard Henry Lee (1787) Second Edition edited by Forrest
McDonald (1962) (Liberty Fund: 1999)
These agrarians deal with the questions of the never-ending
problem of the distribution of power in a broad and complex federal system
and this extensive continuing interference in their lives. xvi plus 174
pages ~ For the paperback (#B258PB, $10.00).
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William Elliott's CAROLINA SPORTS by Land and Water: Includes
Incidents of Devil-Fishing, Wild-Cat, Deer & Bear Hunting,
etc. With a new introduction by Theodore Rosengarten (1846)
(University of South Carolina Press: 1994)
This is published in cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies and the South Caroliniana Society of the University of
South Carolina. These are robust accounts of outdoor life in the wild
places of the South Carolina lowcountry which also give great insights into
social relationships of the period. xlii plus 260 pages ~ Paperback only,
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The Southerner's Instruction Book (1994) By Jim & Susan
Erskine (Pelican Publishing Co.)
More than 350 quips for that cousin who lives up north, was born in the South, and eventually moved away and needs sound advice for living the way it's meant to be. It's loaded with a healthy dose of Southern humour sure to tickle the chitlins out of anyone. 96 pages ~ Paperback only, #B144PB, $4.95.
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The Slaveholders' Delimma: Freedom and Progress in Southern
ConservativeThought, 1820-1860 By Eugene D. Genovese (University
of South Carolina Press: 1992)
Antebellum slaveholders perceived themselves as thoroughly
modern, moral men who protected human progress against the perversions of
the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. They insisted that in
resisting the religious heresies, infidelity, ultra-democratic politics, and
egalitarian dogmas then sweeping the North and Western Europe, they were
proving themselves the firmest carriers of genuine progress itself. The
slaveholders also accepted the widespread idea that freedom generated the
economic, social, and moral progress they embraced as their own cause.
Nonetheless, they continued to defend slavery. Genovese explores the
slaverholders' efforts to fight their way out of this dilemma. xviii plus
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The Creed of the Old South: 1863-1915 (1915) By Basil L.
Gildersleeve (Virginia Heritage Press)
The Creed of the Old South first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in January 1892 and quickly became his most widely read work. A Southerner in the Peloponnesian War was first published in the Atlantic Monthly of September 1897 and quickly became accepted by Mr. Rhodes, an eminent historian, as an historical document. He expresses, as no other has done, a Southerner's love for his own state, an emotion felt much less often today by an industrialised population that moves once every three to five years. 127 pages ~ Over-sized loose-leaf bound only, #B148LL, $6.95.
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Eudora Welty's Aesthetics of Place Jan Nordby Gretlund
(University of South Carolina Press: 1994)
Gretland shows that Welty's writing represents the South's collective experience from the Depression to the present, demonstrating that
Welty's realistic fiction reveals an aesthetic allegiance to agrarian
values. Welty's famed "sense of place" ultimately reflects a sense of how
to live. xv plus 297 pages ~ Paperback only, #B267PB, $16.95.
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When the South was Southern (1994) By Michael Andrew Grissom
(Pelican Publishing Co.)
This book full of photographs, tintypes, and post cards shows the bare elegance and real spirit of the early South. These photographs and bits of history in explanatory notes do what Walker Evans' and James Agree's book did for the Great Depression, reveal its haunting beauty undeniably. 392 pages ~ Hardcover only, #B150HC, $22.95.
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The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina By Arthur H. Hirsch
(1928) With a new introduction by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke (University
of South Carolina: 1999)
Published in cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies and the South Caroliniana Society of the University of South
Carolina. He describes how the Huguenot communities integrated into the
religious, political, and socio-economic fabric of early South Carolina and
how they exerted a disproportionate influence on early colonial institutions
aiding the Anglicans in establishing the Church of England. xxxvii plus 338
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Christ in the Camp (1887) By J. William Jones ~ Introduction
by J.C. Granberry (Sprinkle Publications)
This book details the great revivals in the Southern Armies and was published to show young people the power of religion to promote real manhood, and lead our old soldiers to follow their Christian leaders, and comrades, "even as they, also, followed Christ. J. William Jones was former chaplain in the Army of Northern Virginia and Secretary for the Southern Historical Society. J.C. Granberry was Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and formerly was Chaplain in the Army of Northern Virginia. 624 pages ~ Cloth(hardcover) only, #B157HC, $28.00.
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Georgia Scenes By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (J.S. Sanders
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Longstreet's good-natured narrators paint a lively and vigorous picture of the Georgia frontier, hilariously contrasting rural and village life and the clash of vernacular and genteel cultures. 240 pages ~ Paperback only, #B167PB, $13.95.
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From Eden to Babylon: The Social and Political Essays of
Andrew Nelson Lytle (1990) By Andrew Nelson Lytle ~ Edited
and with an Introduction By M.E. Bradford (Regnery Gateway)
Andrew Nelson Lytle, a leading member of the Southern Agrarian movement, links the culture of the Old South to the culture of Western Europe, to, indeed, the foundations and continuities of Christian civilisation, and a belief that power is not the proper object of life, which lies, rather, in the proper ordering of man's affairs. In affirming that the "small farm secures the state" he ties man to nature, to a hard and realistic view of life, to a love of liberty and a distrust of distant and arbitrary power, and to a proper distinction between the public and private spheres of human activity. For Lytle, the "virtue of private property is not wealth but its capacity to resist Leviathan and to secure the 'peace of the family.'" Andrew Lytle received three Guggenheim fellowships, the Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Richard M. Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters, among many other awards. M.E. Bradford was a professor of English at the University of Dallas. 281 pages ~ Hardcover only, #B168HC, $19.95.
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A Wake for the Living: A Family Chronicle By Andrew Nelson
Lytle (1975) ~ Preface by Madison Smartt Bell (1992) ~ Edited
by M.E. Bradford (J.S. Sanders - Southern Classic Series)
Andrew Lytle, sometimes called the "Last Agrarian" is a universal thinker, meaning that each of his thoughts is designed to wrap around the universe of his subject. His writing, artfully unitary from the start, portrays the history and character of the people of the mid-South through a history of his family, giving, in the words of critic J.A. Bryant, Jr. a "rendering of a bygone world [that] brings the ache of beauty remembered." 296 pages ~ Paperback only, #B169PB, $13.95.
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Let My Children Go: Why Parents Must Remove Their Children
from Public Schools NOW Christian Leaders Edition By E. Ray
Moore, Jr., Th.M. (Gilead Media: 2002)
American schools are the highest funded in the world but rank at the bottom of industrialized nations in math, science and physics,
yet more than 80 percent of Christians continue to expose their children to
the physical and moral dangers in the "care of" government run schools. He
says it is time to "remove kids NOW." 352 pages ~ Paperback only, #B271PB,
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I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition
(1930/1977) By the "Nashville Agrarians" ~ New Introduction
by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. ~ Biographical Essays by Virginia Rock
(Louisiana State University Press)
The essays in this agrarian manifesto constitute one of the outstanding Southern cultural documents. Twelve distinguished Southern academics, poets, novelists, and literary critics defend individuals against the baseless conformity of an increasingly mechanized and humanized society. These writers represent a significant literary movement, a period of Southern history, and a cherished, resistant and persistent Christian Southern culture. 458 pages ~ Paperback only, #B195PB, $19.95.
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So Good A Cause: A Decade of Southern Partisan, Volume
One (1993) Edited by Oran P. Smith ~ Introduction by Richard
M. Quinn Foreward by Charles S. Hamel (Foundation for American
Education)
Southern Partisan is a magazine dedicated to defining and defending traditional Southern values. This volume is a collector's edition that includes much of the best work offered during the years of the magazine's existence such as "The Yankeefication of Conservative Thought" and "Is the South a Nation?" Few books, if any, will bring you as much Southern warmth and pride as this one. Oran P. Smith is the past editor of the Southern Partisan and former Vice-Chairman of the S.C. Republican Party. 366 pages ~ Hardcover only, #B199HC, $25.00.
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Southeastern WILDLIFE COOKBOOK From the Publishers of South
Carolina Wildlife Magazine (1981/1989)
A collection of recipes for sea and freshwater food, large and small game, and savory oddities from the wild . . . the Revised Edition.
"And when he is successful, the real sportsman . . . is doing more than lug
in a dinner. If he gets a couple of brace of ducks or a wild turkey, he
calls in his friends to help gnaw the bones and 'whistle through the
carcasses' over the kitchen sink. It is the same when he catches a fine
fish or a string thereof. Thus hunting and fishing rank high in the
humanities." Cook duck, opossum, goose, squirrel, rabbit, beaver, dove,
frog, snapping turtle, shellfish, eel, whelk, wild plants or even odd foods!
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Arator (1818/1987) By John Taylor of Caroline (Liberty
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Tyranny Unmasked (1822/1992) By John Taylor of Caroline
(Liberty Fund) Edited by F. Thornton Miller
When John Taylor supported James Monroe for president, he informed the candidate that upon taking office he would find his old friend in opposition. He made the frequent inquiring into the measures of government his life's work. He wrote this book to fulfill that task. He and other Old Republicans believed that, without their vigilant watch over the federal government on behalf of the people, individual liberty would soon be sacrificed. F. Thornton Miller is Associate Professor of History at Southwest Missouri State University. 314 pages ~ Hardcover, #B206HC, $18.00
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Tyranny Unmasked (1822/1992) By John Taylor of Caroline
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Southern Forum Culture Essays: Agrarianism and Religion
(1999/2001) By Various Authors (Virginia Heritage Press)
This is an excellent collection of Southern Forum essays on Southern culture, politics and religion by the worlds most insightful and skilled writers: M.E. Bradford (MEB), Richard M. Weaver (RMW), Andrew N. Lytle (ANL), H.L. Mencken (HLM), Mark Malvasi (MM), and P.J. Byrnes (PJB). Essays include: On Remembering Who We Are by MEB, The Hind Tit by ANL, The Heritage by RMW, Southern Chivalry and Total War by RMW, How Many Miles to Babylon by ANL, Not so Democratic: The Caution of the Framers by MEB, The Agrarianism of Richard Weaver by MEB, The Agrarian Tradition: An Affirmation by MEB, The Older Religiousness in the South by RMW, Why the Agrarians? by PJB, Southern Tradition and the Modern Age: The Agrarians in Retrospect by MM, They Took Their Stand: The Agrarian View After Fifty Years by ANL, The Importance of Cultural Freedom by RMW, The Meaning of Name and Place by RMW, The Disease of Democracy by HLM, and The Declaration of Independence in American by HLM. These are perfect materials for group presentations and discussion. 278 pages ~ Over-sized loose-leaf bound, #B217LL, $24.95.
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Ideas Have Consequences (1948) By Richard M. Weaver (University
of Chicago Press)
This brilliantly written, definitive work signals a revival of agrarian thought. His explanation of the breakdown of modern man is based on deduction, not analogy. He begins seeing the world is intelligible and that man is free and that those consequences we are now expiating are the product not of biological or other necessity but of unintelligent choice and that man should not follow a scientific analysis with a plea of moral impotence. He sees modern man as moral idiot. Weaver, not Rush Limbough, writes passionately and intelligently about "How Things Ought to Be." This is the defining work of agrarian culture. 197 pages ~ Paperback only, #B232PB, $11.00.
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Life Without Prejudice and Other Essays (1965) By Richard
M. Weaver ~ Introduction by Eliseo Vivas (Virginia Heritage
Press)
These essays first appeared in various journals. The essays selected for this book were chosen by Harvey Plotnick, one of Weaver's students and are considered some of his best work. Weaver was provincial by choice as you can see from his essays, "The Importance of Cultural Freedom" and "Up From Liberalism." He argues that it is neither possible nor desirable to live a life without prejudice. But there is no contradiction. For while Weaver believed in principles and in "prejudices" (in the sense of pre-judgements) and while he believed that there is a reality that is perceived by the intellect which we should seek to discern if we are to govern our lives successfully, he distrusted profoundly the narrow and intolerant conclusions at which rationalists arrive. 184 pages ~ Over-sized loose-leaf bound only, #B233LL, $8.95.
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The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver By Richard M.
Weaver 1929-1963 Foreward by George Core, Edited and with
a Preface by George M. Curtis, III, and James J. Thompson,
Jr. (Liberty Fund)
Fourteen essays by Richard M. Weaver, one of the leading figures in the post-World War II development of an intellectual,
self-conscious conservatism expressing belief that Southern values of
religion, work ethic, and family could provide the strongest defense against
totalitarian nihilism of fascist and communist equality and statism. 288
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The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver By Richard M.
Weaver 1929-1963 Foreward by George Core, Edited and with
a Preface by George M. Curtis, III, and James J. Thompson,
Jr. (Liberty Fund)
Fourteen essays by Richard M. Weaver, one of the leading figures in the post-World War II development of an intellectual,
self-conscious conservatism expressing belief that Southern values of
religion, work ethic, and family could provide the strongest defense against
totalitarian nihilism of fascist and communist equality and statism. 288
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In Defense of Tradition: Collected Shorter Essays of Richard
M. Weaver (2001) By Richard M. Weaver 1929-1963 (Liberty Fund)
Edited and with an Introduction by Ted J. Smith III
Richard M. Weaver, agrarian writer celebrated for his unsparing diagnosis and realistic remedies for the ills of modernity, is largely known through a few of his works that remain in print. This new collection of his shorter writings presents many long-out-of-print and never-before-published works that give new range and depth to Weaver's thoughts. This book contains 126 essays, speeches, book reviews, and editorials. Ted J. Smith III is Professor of Mass Communications at Virginia Commonwealth University. 861 pages ~ Hardcover, #B235HC, $25.00.
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In Defense of Tradition: Collected Shorter Essays of Richard
M. Weaver (2001) By Richard M. Weaver 1929-1963 (Liberty Fund)
Edited and with an Introduction by Ted J. Smith III
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Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of our Time (1964/1995)
By Richard M. Weaver ~ Foreward by Russell Kirk Preface by
Ted J. Smith III (Intercollegiate Studies Institute)
In these valuable essays, Weaver shows how the decline of the West is traceable to the loss of its ordering vision, and analyzes the forces that have contributed to that loss. He reviews, in this posthumous book, his reverence for the past, his admiration for the uses of order and tradition, his suspicions of the modern temper, and his undiminished credible contempt for liberalism and sentimental democracy. Richard M. Weaver, agrarian writer celebrated for his unsparing diagnosis and realistic remedies for the ills of modernity, was Professor of English at the University of Chicago. 171 pages ~ Paperback only, #B236PB, $12.95.
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The Plain People of the Confederacy By Bell Irwin Wiley
(1943) With a new introduction by Paul D. Escort (University
of South Carolina Press: 2000)
This Louisiana State University professor was hailed for his realistic portrayal of the common soldier in the WBTS. This book sparked
much debate about the Southern armies defeat that continues among historians
today. xxxix plus 104 pages ~ Paperback only, #B264PB, $12.95.
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Southern Slavery: As It Was By Steve Wilkins & Douglas
Wilson (Canon Press: 1996)
This is written in response to Dabney's appeal, "There is one point on which you insist too little, which is vital to the young
citizens of the South. That is, that he shall not allow the dominant party
to teach him a perverted history of past contests. This is a mistake of
which you are in imminent peril." This booklet gives the South's view on
slavery as it truly was. 43 pages ~ Paperback, #B284PB, $3.50
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