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The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi
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The Deepest South of All is Richard Grant's love letter to his adoptive city of Natchez, Mississippi. Seamlessly blending travelogue, history, memoir, and anecdote, spiced by a good strong dose of irony, any eye for incendiary humor and just plain weirdness. A little Twin Peaks, a lot of Southern Gothic, Grant coaxes out the good, the lovely, the ugly, the sublime and delivers a wholly engaging portrait of this "Jewel of the Mississippi," a town with a deep and complicated history.
Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant “sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River through the eyes of a cast of eccentric and unexpected characters” (Newsweek).
Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent white...
Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent white...
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