This book is incredible. As if Pat Conroy finally let us inside his psyche instead of simply relating his tormented history. It will make you uncomfortable, make you wish that the movie will never be made, but this is chewy chewy fiction, not to be missed, or dismissed. Absorb it now. Wow.

This author writes best about what he knows the most.This novel is beautiful and haunting, with many layers of emotion and strange characters. I look forward to reading his next novel.

What a great book this is. Bradley's best, I think. I would put this book in the same league with some of Pat Conroy's best, but with a darker edge to it. A sad, lyrically prosed story that will stay in your mind long after you read it.

I never got this book fully until I moved to Louisiana- people do take food seriously in the South, and guard barbeque and other recipies as great secrets. My mother-in-law has been trying to get a BBQ recipie for years from one of her friends who refuses to tell her. So this book is a bit educational for people who aren't from the South. Shankman knows her stuff. And if you love the Sam Adams series, you'll love this book. I love the twists in the story- so many Elvis connections!
If you love 'Q', mysteries and Elvis, this is the book for you!(and even if you don't, its still a great book!)

About half way through this funny book, I decided it wasn't a mystery. But then the end took me by complete surprise! Highly recommend for those who like a little comedy with their mysteries...

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The Tupelo Years like all the books I have read by Bill Burk are excellent ventures into journalism. From the first word to the last you never lose interest or feel that a story slows down in the middle. Mr Burk is a articulate and superb writer that captures you the moment you enter his world, always keeping accuracy as his main goal.

This book was written by two of my teachers at college, in Lincroft, NJ @ Brookdale Community College. Carl Francese and Richard Sorrell teach the course "1960's Pop Music" @ Brookdale, and in 1998, they wrote this book for their course, because they could find no genuine college level books about the 1960's Music scene. I had known Richard Sorrell from a previous course and I had mentioned to him that I am Die-Hard Beatles fan, and I would talk at length of different topics. He told me that he and another teacher teach a course in Rock and Roll and he thought that I'd be a wonderful addition to the class. So 1 year later, I enrolled in the class. The book does an excellent job of providing the student with detailed biograhpies and discograhpies. Noted chapters of great detail in this book are The Beatles and Elvis Presley. It also is the ideal book for the student who does not know the minimum of any particular artist of the 1960's. Myself, I was not one for Aretha Franklin and Soul, but this book gave me a good overview of what it was about. The most recent version of this book was done in 2000, I believe. It's an excellent book, taught by a pair of exceptional rock and roll buffs.

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"The Struggle for Tennessee: Tupelo to Stones River" is the second of the volumes in the Time-Life Civil War series dealing with the Western Theater of the war after the Battle of Shiloh. Obviously this part of the war has never received the attention of the Eastern Theater where Lee's Army of Northern Virginia dueled the Army of the Potomac, so there is something intrinsically interesting about finding out more about what was happening out West. James Street, Jr. presents his subject as a war of maneuvers in and around Tennessee. After the capture of Corinth, Mississippi in May 1862, a portion of Major General Don Carlos Buell's Union army was dispatched towards Chattanooga, the critical railroad center that was the gateway to Georgia. However, Confederate armies under Generals Kirby Smith and Braxton Bragg moved from Eastern Tennessee into Kentucky to threatened Louisville and Cincinnati. After a drawn battle at Perryville, Kentucky on October 8, Major General William Rosencrans succeeded Buell and that December left Nashville to fight Bragg's reorganized Army of Tennessee near Murfreesboro, on the banks of Stone River.

Street divides these events into five chapters: (1) Heyday for Raiders focuses on the guerrilla tactics of both sides, including James J. Andrews stealing the Western & Atlantic Railroad locomotive named the "General," and the raids of John Hunt Morgan. (2) Stumbling Towards Perryville covers the Confederates campaign to retake Kentucky, or at least stop the Federals from moving deeper into Tennessee, climaxing with the Battle of Perryville where both sides claimed victory. (3) Clash at Doctor's Creek has Rosencrans' bringing a new spirit to the Army of the Cumberland preparing them for the key battle in the campaign. (4) The Fight for "Hell's Half Acre" tells the details of the first half of Battle of Stones River outside Murfreesboro on December 31, where the Confederates turned the Union flank in on itself like a jackknife. (5) Across Stones River and Back completes the battle as the successful attack of the Confederates on the left Union flank succeeded in driving the Federals behind the river, where massed artillery fire staggered the Rebels and set the stage for a successful Union counterattack. With this victory, the Union forces could plan their move on Chattanooga.

"The Struggle for Tennessee" is illustrated with the historic photographs, etchings and color sketches that have always been one of the richest parts of the Time-Life series. I appreciate the detail that Street is able to give to the Battle of Stones River, because by devoting two chapters to it he is able to elevate its significance in the Civil War in a way I have never appreciated before. The story of the Western Theater picks up in two volumes, one devoted to Grant's Vicksburg Campaign in "War on the Mississippi" and the other picking right up on this volume with "The Fight for Chattanooga."