University Press of Mississippi
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Three Years in Wonderland: The Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park
$35.00 Add to cartThe story of the dynamic, driven, and sometimes despised third wheel in the creation of America’s iconic theme park While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there wa… [more below]
- Author: Pierce, Todd James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1628462418
- Language: English
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Return to Elkins Creek: A Fishing Odyssey
$25.00 Add to cartReturn to Elkins Creek combines a series of fishing stories, descriptions of changing cultural norms, and the peculiar history of freshwater fishing gear. Beginning with subsistence fishing in very ru
- Author: Peacock, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: April 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1496862783
- Language: English
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Tall in the Saddle: The Life of Ben Johnson, Hollywood’s Real Cowboy
$35.00 Add to cartTall in the Saddle: The Life of Ben Johnson, Hollywood’s Real Cowboy is the definitive biography of Ben Johnson (1918-1996), the only man to win both an Academy Award and a world rodeo championship. B… [more below]
- Series: Hollywood Legends
- Author: Jones, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1496861558
- Language: English
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Killing the Kingfish: The Huey Long Assassination
$40.00 Add to cartOn September 8, 1935, Huey Long, a United States senator and former Louisiana governor, was fatally shot in a back corridor of the Louisiana state capitol. Although the most widely accepted theory hol… [more below]
- Author: McGuire, Jack B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 728
- Publish Date: March 18 2026
- ISBN10: 1496861353
- Language: English
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Lauren Bacall: The Queen of Cool
$35.00 Add to cartLauren Bacall (1924-2014), or Betty, as she was known to friends, was one of the last great movie stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Her career spanned seven decades and was one of the longest and … [more below]
- Series: Hollywood Legends
- Author: Uzarowski, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1496838831
- Language: English
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Three Years in Wonderland: The Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park
$35.00 Add to cartThe story of the dynamic, driven, and sometimes despised third wheel in the creation of America’s iconic theme park While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there wa… [more below]
- Author: Pierce, Todd James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1628462418
- Language: English
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Let Me Be Frank: The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr.
$30.00 Add to cartAs an American singer, conductor, composer, and actor, Frank Sinatra, Jr. (1944-2016), had a long and successful music career and was recognized for his many contributions to American popular song. Ye… [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Klauber, Bruce H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1496858654
- Language: English
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The Tougaloo Nine: The Jackson Library Sit-In at the Crossroads of Civil War and Civil Rights
$35.00 Add to cartDuring a dramatic three-day period in March 1961, nine students from historically Black Tougaloo College staged sit-ins at the all-White Main Library in Jackson, Mississippi. The students conducted th… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, M. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 453
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1496856031
- Language: English
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Hometown Mississippi
$40.00 Add to cartHometown Mississippi offers an intimate glimpse into thirty Mississippi towns through the lens of author, photographer, and artist Melody Golding. In this stunning collection, Golding captures the ess… [more below]
- Author: Golding, Melody
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1496859995
- Language: English
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Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877
$35.00 Add to cartThroughout the ten-year period following the end of the Civil War, Mississippians responded to broader movements in the country, to changes in the national and international economy, and to congressio… [more below]
- Series: Heritage of Mississippi
- Author: Nash, Jere
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1496858530
- Language: English
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Mississippi Witness: The Photographs of Florence Mars
$40.00 Add to cartIn June 1964, Neshoba County, Mississippi, provided the setting for one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era: the Klan-orchestrated murder of three young voting-rights workers, James C… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496820908
- Language: English
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Mississippi Witness: The Photographs of Florence Mars
$27.00 Read moreReporter and sleuth Emma Cross Andrews must stop a bold poisoner who is targeting the society wives of the Four Hundred in Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island . . .
August 1901: A fundraiser for a new Rh- Series: Gilded Newport Mystery
- Author: Maxwell, Alyssa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1496736214
- Language: English
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Rainbow Fleur de Lis: Essays on Queer New Orleans History
$28.00 Add to cartRainbow Fleur de Lis: Essays on Queer New Orleans History is an anthology of eighty-five short, easy-to-read essays that originally appeared in Ambush Magazine and French Quarter Journal. Author Frank… [more below]
- Author: Perez, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496857585
- Language: English
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George Valentine Dureau: Life and Art in New Orleans
$50.00 Read moreNew Orleans artist George Valentine Dureau (1930-2014) has always been an enigma. His status as an important artist gained momentum beginning with his first exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Howard Philips
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: March 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1496853830
- Language: English
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Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters
$50.00 Add to cartOut of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musician’s dreams. Brian Bisesi, a guitarist barely out of his teens, is invited on stage to fill in for a … [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Bisesi, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: March 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1496849841
- Language: English
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King Noir: The Crime Fiction of Stephen King
$25.00 Add to cartOver the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the unique phenomenon of his success. Books on King explore… [more below]
- Author: Magistrale, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: March 31 2025
- ISBN10: 1496852753
- Language: English
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The Nine O’Clock Whistle: Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North Carolina
$28.00 Add to cartBetween the years of 1963 and 1965, civil rights protests rocked rural communities like Enfield, a small North Carolina town where segregationist and white supremacist attitudes prevailed. Whites in E… [more below]
- Series: Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
- Author: Cofield, Willa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 355
- Publish Date: February 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1496852389
- Language: English
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The Life and Music of Booker Bukka White: Recalling the Blues
$28.00 Add to cartBooker “Bukka” White (1905-1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. The twelve songs he recorded in Chicago in 1940 are considered to be among the finest in countr… [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Johnson, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 28 2024
- ISBN10: 149685344X
- Language: English
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Confessions of an Undercover Agent: Adventures, Close Calls, and the Toll of a Double Life
$18.00 Add to cartThis true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt
- Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- Author: Spillers, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1496818539
- Language: English
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Lost Plantations of the South
$40.00 Add to cartThe great majority of the South’s plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diar… [more below]
- Author: Matrana, Marc R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1578069424
- Language: English
