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Wed 27

April 27, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT

Author Talk: Frye Gaillard & Cynthia Tucker

Atlanta History Center

Location: Both

130 West Paces Ferry Rd NW
Atlanta, GA, 30305
4048144000
atlantahistorycenter.com

Part of the National Week of Conversation at Atlanta History Center, join us before the event for conversation starter cards and discussion with fellow attendees, followed by an engaging Author Talk presentation.

 

Bundle Tickets

–Not Yet Members: $28 (includes general admission ticket + book at 30% discount!)

–Members: $23 (includes discounted general admission ticket + book at 30% discount!)

–Insiders: $18 (includes free general admission ticket + book at 30% discount!)

 

General Admission Tickets (book not included)

–Not Yet Members: $10

–Members: $5

–Insiders: Free

 

A livestream of this program will be available on the event page and our YouTube channel. Woodruff Auditorium is located inside McElreath Hall. Doors and cash bar will open at 6pm.

 

In 1974 John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie. Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard carry Egerton’s thesis forward in The Southernization of America, a compelling series of linked essays considering the role of the South in shaping America’s current political and cultural landscape. They dive deeper, examining the morphing of the Southern strategy of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan into the Republican Party of today, the racial backlash against President Obama, family separation on our southern border, the rise of the Christian right, the white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, the death of George Floyd, and the attack on our nation’s capitol. They find hope in the South too, a legacy rooted in the civil rights years that might ultimately lead the nation on the path to redemption. Tucker and Gaillard bring a multiracial perspective and years of political reporting to bear on a critical moment in American history, a time of racial reckoning and democracy under siege.

 

About the Authors

Frye Gaillard is a writer in residence at the University of South Alabama and award-winning author of more than 20 books, including Watermelon Wine: The Spirit of Country Music, The Quilt: And the Poetry of Alabama Music, Journey to the Wilderness: War, Memory, and a Southern Family’s Civil War Letters, The Books That Mattered: A Reader’s Memoir, and Go South to Freedom, all published by NewSouth Books. His book A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope and Innocence Lost is forthcoming from NewSouth. He is the winner of the Lillian Smith Award, the Clarence Cason Award for Non-Fiction, the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year Award, and the 2016 Eugene Current-Garcia Award For Distinction in Literary Scholarship.

Cynthia Tucker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist who has spent most of her career in journalism, having previously worked for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a Washington-based political correspondent. Her work as a journalist has been celebrated by the National Association of Black Journalists, who inducted her into its hall of fame, Harvard University, and the Alabama Humanities Foundation. Tucker spent three years as a visiting professor at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and is currently the journalist-in-residence at the University of South Alabama. Her weekly column focuses on political and cultural issues, including income inequality, social justice, and public education reform.

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