{"product_id":"continuities-the-south-in-a-time-of-revolution-paperback","title":"Continuities: The South in a Time of Revolution - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Devanny\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe occasional essay was characterised by its personal and conversational style. It dealt usually with things of contemporary interest but with an insight and humane attention superior to ordinary discussion. It wore its considerable learning lightly and sometimes revealed a little gentle humour. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Devanny's work is in the great tradition of Southern essayists like Poe, Simms, Weaver, Davidson, O'Connor, and Percy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExcerpts: \u003cbr\u003e\"This modest collection is designed to express the \u003ci\u003ementalitie' \u003c\/i\u003eof a Southern conservative who holds to the old verities of faith and family, place, tradition, and custom. And who views history, and politics, and culture through the lens of not just changes, but important continuities.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" . . . we know our good Yankee progressive cannot stop at the borders of his home state; He wants to bring the City on the Hill to you, whether you want it or not. \"\u003cbr\u003e\"The monuments erected in honour of specific political and military leaders of the Confederacy and of its ordinary soldiers and citizens, are meant to call to mind the fortitude, forbearance, patience in suffering, and self-sacrifice practiced by these men and women. . . . Indeed, this should be the working assumption of any civilized individual who comes upon the monuments of the other side. Only barbarians desecrate.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'' . . . once the impious destroys the ties to tradition and piety, so too are the virtues that are allow for civilisation to be sundered. . . . One can reject the patrimony, but once the house is pulled down and the Jacobin has sown the wind, what then shall he reap?\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Let us I advocate instead for the best in the Southern tradition and rebuild it each day and in every moment of our lives. Let us avoid (and forgive) the sins of our fathers, but more so let us imitate their virtues and always defend their honour.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEssays: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMusings on Dislocation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFall Planting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eM.R. Ducks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFootball and the South\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow 'bout a Little Bourbon with Your Philosophy?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGentleman Bob and the Decline of the South\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGuns, Yankees, and Such\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePietas in the Era of Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThrough a Glass Darkly: Justice Kavanaugh and the Triumph of Symbol over Reality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Blundering Generations and the Crises of Legitimacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContested Ground: Southern Identity and the Southern Tradition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Sins of Harper Lee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll Slavery, All the Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Society with Slaves\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Randolph and the Formation of an American Conservative Persuasion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoison Under the Wings: The Constitution and Its Defects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eZombies No More: Secession, Nullification, and the Academy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat We Have to Expect\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRhetoric, Reality, and the Late Unpleasantness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSouthern Populism and the South's Agrarian Identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhere the Grapes of Wrath are Stored: The Reconstruction of Southern Religion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Late Unpleasantness: Memory, Meaning and Understanding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 16, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42170572537991,"sku":"9781947660861","price":26.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/bdb49fb01a24f393a348385f85663e94.webp?v=1733349168","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/continuities-the-south-in-a-time-of-revolution-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}