The Most They Ever Had by Rick Bragg (73 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. He was twenty-nine years old and had recorded just eighty sessions when he died on New Year's Day 1953. Yet those songs??Hey Good Lookin'," "Your Cheatin' Heart," "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"-made Hank Williams the most influential country musician ever. He is the essential pre-Elvis performer, molding American music into a new art form, and creating descendants that range from Garth Brooks to Beck. But for all that his music reveals, we know remarkably little of the man himself. His formal interviews barely filled a page, and even those who claimed him as a friend admit they barely knew him. Hank Williams fans, devoted and avid, have been cherishing the same few Hank pictures and reminiscences for decades. Now this book will reveal a previously unseen wealth of photographs, letters, interviews, and the handwritten lyrics to twenty-nine newly discovered songs in a beautifully designed tribute. Arranged chronologically and enhanced by testimonials from Hank's family, friends, and the musicians he inspired, Hank Williams is a revelation.

Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. x, 255, [5] p. Rick Bragg (born July 26, 1959) is an American journalist and writer known for non-fiction books, especially those about his family in Alabama. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 recognizing his work at The New York Times. He was raised primarily by his mother, as his father was an alcoholic and was almost never home. His relatives were also very involved in his young life, and greatly influenced his personal and emotional development. Bragg joined the New York Times in 1994. He covered unrest in Haiti as a metro reporter, then wrote about the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Susan Smith trial as a national correspondent. He later became the paper's Miami bureau chief prior to Elián González's arrival and the international controversy surrounding the Cuban boy. Bragg won the Pulitzer Prize for his work. Bragg has authored six books: All Over But the Shoutin, Ava's Man, The Prince of Frogtown, I Am a Soldier Too, The Most They Ever Had, and Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling. First edition. First edition [stated]. Presumed first printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition light yellow boards/brown spine/gold spine lettering contained in fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Quotes; Prologue; Epilogue; and Acknowledgments. Signed by the author in thin black pen on an Indian River Literary Society bookplate affixed to the blank first free front endpaper. "Affecting, powerful.and truly inspiring." - Booklist (starred review) "I loved Neely Tucker's Love in the Driest Season. There is breathtaking suspense in this true story set in Africa. I swear you will be moved like seldom before, if ever." - Elmore Leonard "This is a gorgeous mix of family memoir and reportage that traverses the big issues of politics, racism, and war." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Neely Tucker and his wife went out and found themselves a daughter in the middle of a misery that most people cannot even comprehend. In telling that story, with poignancy and beautiful writing, he welcomes the rest of us inside the gift that they gave and that she gave them in return. How many times have reporters, aid workers, and soldiers simply walked by? This is what happens when they don't." - Rick Bragg "A truly remarkable work of personal reportage and an unforgettable story about the triumph of the human spirit. Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon, a critically ill infant was brought to the orphanage from a village outside the city. She'd been left to die in a field on the day she was born, abandoned in the tall brown grass that covers the highlands of Zimbabwe in the dry season. After a near-death hospital stay, and under strict doctor's orders, the ailing child was entrusted to the care of Tucker and Vita. Within weeks Chipo, the girl-child whose name means gift, would come to mean everything to them. Sill an active correspondent, Tucker crisscrossed the continent, filing stories about the uprisings in the Congo, the civil war in Sierra Leone, and the post-genocidal conflict in Rwanda. He witnessed heartbreaking scenes of devastation and violence, steeling him further to take a personal role in helping anywhere he could. At home in Harare, Vita was nursing Chipo back to health. Soon she and Tucker decided to alter their lives forever - they would adopt Chipo. That decision challenged and unspoken social norm - that foreigners should never adopt Zimbabwean children. Raised in rural Mississippi in the sixties and seventies, Tucker was familiar with the mores associated with and dictated by race. His wife, a savvy black woman whose father escaped the Jim Crow South for a new life in the industrial North, would not be deterred in her resolve to welcome Chipo into their loving family. As if their situation wasn't tenuous enough, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was stirring up national fervor against foreigners, especially journalists, abroad and at home. At its peak, his antagonizing branded all foreign journalists personae non gratae. For Tucker, the only full-time American correspondent in Zimbabwe, the declaration was a direct threat to his life and his wife's safety, and an ultimatum to their decision to adopt the child who had already become their only daughter. Against a background of war, terrorism, disease, and unbearable uncertainty about the future, Chipo's story emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love - and dogged determination - can sometimes achieve, Gripping, heartbreaking, and triumphant, this family memoir will resonate throughout the ages." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Neely Tucker is a staff writer for the Washington Post. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Vita, and his daughter, Chipo. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. x, [2], 498, [2] pages. Illustrated endpapers (back is in color). Illustrations (some in color). Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Rick Bragg is an American journalist and writer known for non-fiction books, especially those about his family in Alabama. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 recognizing his work at The New York Times. Bragg worked at several newspapers before joining the New York Times in 1994. He covered murders and unrest in Haiti as a metro reporter, then wrote about the Oklahoma City bombing, the 1998 Westside Middle School shooting, and the Susan Smith trial as a national correspondent based in Atlanta. He later became the paper's Miami bureau chief prior to Elián González's arrival and the international controversy surrounding the Cuban boy. Bragg won the Pulitzer Prize for his work. Bragg has authored nine books: All Over But the Shoutin, Ava's Man, The Prince of Frogtown, I Am a Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, the authorized biography of American POW Jessica Lynch, The Most They Ever Had, Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story, My Southern Journey, The Best Cook in the World: Tales From My Momma's Table, and Where I Come from: Stories from the Deep South. Bragg's book All Over But the Shoutin tells the story of his childhood in Alabama, his rise to becoming a journalist, his personal struggles and the stories of the people he cares about. The book pays special attention to his struggles with his abusive, alcoholic father, and the story of his mother who raised Bragg and his two brothers on her own. The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis, and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time. A monumental figure on the American landscape, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit records like Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls of Fire, that gave rock and roll its devil's edge; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances; nearly scuttled his career by marrying his thirteen-year-old second cousin, his third wife of seven; ran a decades-long marathon of drugs, drinking, and women; nearly met his maker, twice; suffered the deaths of two sons and two wives, and the indignity of an IRS raid that left him with nothing but the broken-down piano he started with; performed with everyone from Elvis Presley to Keith Richards to Bruce Springsteen to Kid Rock, and survived it all to be hailed as one of the most creative and important figures in American popular culture and a paradigm of the Southern experience. Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the Killer's life as he lived it, and as he shared it over two years with our greatest bard of Southern life: Rick Bragg. Rich with Lewis's own words, framed by Bragg's richly atmospheric narrative, , this is the last great untold rock-and-roll story, come to life on the page. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. viii, 259, [3] p. Inscribed by the author on the title page. DJ has slight wear and soiling with autographed copy sticker on front. Rick Bragg (born July 26, 1959) is an American journalist and writer known for non-fiction books, especially those about his family in Alabama. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his work at The New York Times. Bragg joined the New York Times in 1994. He covered murders and unrest in Haiti, then wrote about the Oklahoma City bombing, the Jonesboro, Arkansas, killings, and the Susan Smith trial as a national correspondent. He became the paper's Miami bureau chief prior to Elián González's arrival and the international controversy surrounding the Cuban boy. Bragg has authored six books: All Over But the Shoutin, Ava's Man, The Prince of Frogtown, I Am a Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, the authorized biography of American POW Jessica Lynch, The Most They Ever Had, and Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story, a biography of the rock and roll legend. Bragg's book All Over But the Shoutin tells the story of his childhood in Alabama, his rise to becoming a journalist, his personal struggles and the stories of the people he cares about. Derived from a Kirkus review: The story of a man who could charm a bird off a wire, beat the tar out of a threat, dandle a baby, tend a still, and smile right through the meanest poverty the South could throw at him. Speaking in a lovely southern voice out of northern Georgia and Alabama, Bragg brings an entire time and place to life. No stranger to a dust-up himself, Charlie Bundrum (the author's grandfather) would take the law down a notch if it was too mettlesome, but he had a softer side-one that would play a white-hot banjo, buck-dance under the stars, and offer a helping hand whenever the need arose. Most important of Charlie's virtues was the fact that "if he ever was good at one thing on this earth, it was being a daddy." Searching for work, he'd move his family about the wild and dangerous South, a landscape of ridges and hollows and deep woods, ramshackle houses, muddy rivers, water moccasins, primeval catfish-but he knew how to make his family feel secure and loved. A book that flashes with affection and respect for Charlie and the vanishing culture he represents, one we will be immensely the poorer for losing. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.

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Hardcover. Second printing [stated]. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xxii, 329, [1] p. Illustrations. Rick Bragg (born July 26, 1959) is an American journalist and writer known for non-fiction books, especially those about his family in Alabama. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 recognizing his work at The New York Times. Bragg worked at several newspapers before joining the New York Times in 1994. He covered murders and unrest in Haiti as a metro reporter, then wrote about the Oklahoma City bombing, the Jonesboro, Arkansas, killings, and the Susan Smith trial as a national correspondent based in Atlanta. He later became the paper's Miami bureau chief prior to Elián González's arrival and the international controversy surrounding the Cuban boy. Bragg won the Pulitzer Prize for his work. Bragg has authored six books: All Over But the Shoutin, Ava's Man, The Prince of Frogtown, I Am a Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, the authorized biography of American POW Jessica Lynch, The Most They Ever Had, and Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story, a biography of the rock and roll legend. Bragg's book All Over But the Shoutin' tells the story of his childhood in Alabama, his rise to becoming a journalist, his personal struggles and the stories of the people he cares about. The book pays special attention to his struggles with his abusive alcoholic father, and the story of his mother who raised Bragg and his two brothers on her own. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed on fep. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Scuff inside front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED by Author, Mint, first ed. , first printing, Rick Bragg flat signed the title page. In spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills came to the edge of all they had ever been. In these real-life stories, Rick Bragg brilliantly evokes the hardscrabble lives of those who lived and died by an American cotton mill of Jacksonville, Alabama. Besides winning a Pulitzer Prize, he has received more than 50 writing awards in 20 years, including the prestigious American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award twice. In 1992, he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Signed by Author;