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My Tears Spoiled My Aim

and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

John Shelton Reed

My Tears Spoiled My Aim

168 pages

Published: March 1993

chart, maps

ISBN: 9780826208866

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Hardcover

Price: $25.00

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Authors and Editors

John Shelton Reed taught for thirty-one years at the University of North Carolina, where he directed the Howard Odum Institute for Research in Social Science and helped to found the university's Center for the Study of the American South. A founding coeditor of the quarterly Southern Cultures, he has received many fellowships and prizes and has been president of the Southern Sociological Society and the Southern Association for Public Opinion Research. He was once a judge at the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, and in 2001 he was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Reed has written many books including Kicking Back and Surveying the South (both with University of Missouri Press). He lives and writes in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Praise For This Book

"Wonderfully authentic: an admirably lighthearted supplement to W. J. Cash's classic The Mind of the South."--Kirkus Reviews

"[Reed] approaches his work with nothing short of pure delight, mixing insight and analysis with wit and levity."--News & Record

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