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Books : Power in the Blood: Land, Memory, and a Southern Family
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: Power in the Blood: Land, Memory, and a Southern Family
See Larger Image 		Power in the Blood: Land, Memory, and a Southern Family
by: John Bentley Mays
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 975.04092
EAN: 9780060182694
ISBN: 0060182695
Label: Harpercollins
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 286
Publication Date: 1997-10
Publisher: Harpercollins
Sales Rank: 1664035
Studio: Harpercollins





Editorial Review:

Product Description:
From one of Canada's most respected and bestselling authors comes a beautifully written chronicle of his odyssey through the American South and rediscovery of his family heritage. of photos.

Amazon.com Review:
Ostensibly a family memoir, John Bentley Mays's Power in the Blood is a lyrical remembrance of his ancestors in the American South. He traces his lineage back to the arrival of a forebear in 1609 and then provides an illuminating view of how historical events were experienced by a large extended family. Mays's chronicle of his ancestors' lives during the colonial period, through the great upheavals of the Civil War, and into the 20th century is a beautifully written and highly informative narrative.



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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Genealogy and recollections of what "Southern" means
When John Bentley Mays returned to his southern roots, it was to attend to the affairs of a recently deceased aunt. While cleaning out her home, he found information on his ancestors that started him on a quest for family history. The story of the early Mays family settlers in the New World is very interesting.

I listened to this book on audio cassette. It probably would move along more pleasingly on paper because there were a few places when the author went off on philosophical rants that didn't move along the narrative so I would have liked those to go by a little more quickly, which I could not accomplish with audio. With a regular book I would have skimmed some of those discussions, but not all of them. Some were rather fascinating.

Mays is a good writer and those of us who are not from the Deep South can learn something of what it is to be from there. He had been embarrassed by his ... Read More



 

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