Weems Words

Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues, by William Ferris (Hardcover, CD/DVD included, 320pp, 9780807833254, $35):

• All Things Considered, 11/2/2009
• The Story With Dick Gordon (NPR), 10/16/09
• The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR, mid September ‘09)
• A PW Indie Top 20 pick: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6686607.html&
• Garden and Gun Magazine, Oct/Nov 09 issue

White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop Jordan (9780807845509, $32.50, Trade Paper) 

• one of Gordon S. Wood’s favorite American History titles: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123577577631997281.html

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War,  by Drew Gilpin Faust (9780807855737, $22.95, Trade Paper)

• one of Gordon S. Wood’s favorite American History titles: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123577577631997281.html

That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution, by Lars Schoultz (9780807832608, $35,  Hardcover, 4/09)

• received a starred review in the January 12th issue of PW