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Winner of the prestigious Will D Campbell Award, Crackers is a story of growing up in Atlanta during the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the Vietnam War. A joyously unreconstructed Southerner, Merritt looks on in amazement as Atlanta changes from a sleepy Southern town into the City too Busy to Hate. This was the time of Martin Luther King and Ivan Allen, but also the time of Lester Maddox, the Temple Bombing, great moral certainties, Elvis, Klan rallies, the Cuban Missile Crisis, a corrupt political system keeping some of America’s finest statesmen in office (some since the time of the Teddy Roosevelt administration), and a man named Armstrong walking upon the moon. It is the story of the way the Civil Rights Revolution looked to Southerners, to decent people trying to honor their heritage while realizing the time had come to let go of parts of that heritage. This is the story the way Southerners remember it – and tell each other.

AUTHOR: Bill Merritt

GENRE: Biography

PUBLISHING: Mercer University Press (July 1, 2016)

ISBN: 9780881465723 0881465720

PAGE COUNT: 248

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