Keith S Perry

War Anthem

The era of Black revolutionaries ended in the 1970's right? So thought Jason Diggs, successful political speechwriter, lawyer and advisor in the rough and tumble world of local Washington, D.C. politics; but when the city boils over in tensions over gentrification and an election that might lead to ...

Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature

Essays in Rough South, Rural South describe and discuss the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories. Some, born into the working class, strove to become writers and learned without benefit of higher educat...

The Kingfish in Fiction: Huey P. Long and the Modern American Novel (Southern Literary Studies)

The controversial, almost mythic Louisiana politician Huey P. Long inspired not just one but six American novels, published between 1934 and 1946. And he continues to resonate in American cultural memory, appearing in a 1995 work of historical fiction. The Kingfish in Fiction offers the first study ...

Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South

With contributions from Robert G. Barrier, Robert Beuka, Thomas Ærvold Bjerre, Jean W. Cash, Robert Donahoo, Richard Gaughran, Gary Hawkins, Darlin' Neal, Keith Perry, Katherine Powell, John A. Staunton, and Jay Watson Larry Brown is noted for his subjects--rural life, poverty, war, and the working...

British Politics and the American Revolution (British History in Perspective)

Deals with British politics in the 1760s and 1770s during the American Revolution and looks at colonialism and the general conduct of the war with America and also surveys the development of radicalism in Britain subsequent to the war.

Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature

Essays in Rough South, Rural South describe and discuss the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories. Some, born into the working class, strove to become writers and learned without benefit of higher educat...

British Politics and the American Revolution

The Kingfish in Fiction: Huey P. Long and the Modern American Novel