{"product_id":"the-new-mind-of-the-south-9781439158470","title":"The New Mind of the South","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this \"knowing and sensitive book\" (Walter Isaacson, author of \u003ci\u003eSteve Jobs\u003c\/i\u003e), Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tracy Thompson upends stereotypes and fallacies to reveal the true heart of the American South today.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInvestigative journalist Tracy Thompson spent years traveling throughout the South and discovered a place both amazingly similar to and radically different from the land she knew as a child. African Americans who left en masse for much of the twentieth century are returning in huge numbers, drawn back by a mix of ambition, family ties, and cultural memory. Though Southerners remain more churchgoing than other Americans, the evan-gelical Protestantism that defined Southern culture through the 1960s has been torn by bitter ideological schisms. Drawing on mountains of data, interviews, and a whole new set of historic archives, Thompson reveals the true character of a region still misunderstood by outsiders and even by its own people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThompson, Tracy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Tracy Thompson is a reporter and essayist who has written about subjects ranging from psychiatry to law to the Civil War. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Beast: A Reckoning with Depression \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost in the House\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives just outside Washington, DC, with her husband, their two daughters, one tabby cat, and an enthusiastic beagle named Max.","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50465930641682,"sku":"9781439158470","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6407f926-4168-4a44-b5e5-b20a0b79b14b.jpg?v=1730114662","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-new-mind-of-the-south-9781439158470","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}