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The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi

By Richard Grant
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By Richard Grant
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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 offers an entertaining and profound look at a city like no other.

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 families dress up in hoopskirts and Confederate uniforms for ritual celebrations of the Old South, yet Natch...

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