Howell Raines has gone fly fishing with presidents of the United States and legends of the sport, as well as relatives, childhood friends, and his two sons. Casting deep into the waters of his tumultuous and momentous life - his storied career at the New York Times, his painful divorce, his seven-year feud with his father, his memorable friendship with fisherman/philosopher Richard C. Blalock - Raines offers his now-classic meditation on the "disciplined, beautiful, and unessential activity" of fly fishing and the challenges and opportunities of middle age. A witty and profound celebration of life's transitions and the serene pleasures of the outdoors, Raines's memories and observations offer wisdom for the younger man, comfort for the older man, and rare insight for women into the often puzzling male psyche. "Hear me, my brothers," Raines says. "Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even adulthood."

Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis

Raines, Howell

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William Morrow Paperbacks

The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, these are the peeople who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, both black and white, who participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter drives, and campaigns for school and university integration.
Here, too, are voices from the "Down-Home Resistance" that supported George Wallace, Bull Connor, and the "traditions" of the Old South—voices that conjure up the frightening terrain on which the battle was fought. My Soul is Rested is a powerful document of social and political history, as well as a magnificent tribute to those who made history happen.

My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South

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Fly Fishing Through The Midlife Crisis

Just as Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance used motorcycle repair as a metaphor for the examination of self, Howell Raines uses his lifelong experiences as a fly fisherman to explore his life, politics, gender, roles as a son, husband, father, and journalist, and his attitudes toward aging and mortality. A man who has fished with presidents and Southern friends as well as with his own two sons, Raines chronicles his progress from "the Redneck way of fishing" for quantity and food to the catch-and-release way of his friend and mentor Dick Blalock. Blalock taught Raines that fly fishing is about attitude and friendship, not about catching fish. Raines imparts tips on casting and stream beds gracefully, along with his love for what he calls "waters that move" as he explores the deep funk he fell into at midlife, complete with a divorce, a seven-year feud with his father and brother, and the all-consuming animosity he allowed himself to develop toward his boss at work. By casting into the waters of his own life -- and ultimately reconciling with middle age -- Howell Raines has written a literate, contemplative celebration of life and friendship.

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Interviews with men and women, both black and white, who participated in various ways in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s provide a first-hand history of the movement, its leaders, supporters, and opponents, and its accomplishments

My Soul Is Rested

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Humor

Putnam Adult

Raines's coming-of-age novel, set in depression-era Alabama, combinesromance and tragedy to evoke a time and place distant in memory but alivein the great tradition of American storytelling. In 1932 in Milo, Alabama, Prohibition was on, the depressionwas on, Franklin D. Roosevelt was riding his campaign train across America,and Bluenose Trogdon--a man who had a real calling for making whiskey justlike his daddy before him--had devoted customers as far away asBirmingham. One of the people he was on good terms with was BrantLaster, just home from The University of Alabama and the first of his familyto graduate. For Brant it was a time to renew ties of love and friendship--withhis kind, upright father, who had a suitable Scripture to go with everysale he made at his general store; with Bluenose; and with Brant's girl,slender, pale-haired Blake King. Blake--in her own view liberated by hercollege years in Atlanta, though in Brant's eyes corrupted by the men shemet there--stirs him to the thought that "every man is his own Iago." Butit is Bluenose--boozy, profane, lustful, wise, comic, racked by passionfor the wife who shuns him--whose inevitable fate finally sets Brant onhis journey into the world.

Whiskey Man

Fawcett

Raines's coming-of-age novel, set in depression-era Alabama, combines romance and tragedy to evoke a time and place distant in memory but alive in the great tradition of American storytelling. 
In 1932 in Milo, Alabama, Prohibition was on, the depression was on, Franklin D. Roosevelt was riding his campaign train across America, and Bluenose Trogdon--a man who had a real calling for making whiskey just like his daddy before him--had devoted customers as far away asBirmingham. 
One of the people he was on good terms with was Brant Laster, just home from The University of Alabama and the first of his family to graduate. For Brant it was a time to renew ties of love and friendship--with his kind, upright father, who had a suitable Scripture to go with every sale he made at his general store; with Bluenose; and with Brant's girl, slender, pale-haired Blake King. Blake--in her own view liberated by her college years in Atlanta, though in Brant's eyes corrupted by the men she met there--stirs him to the thought that "every man is his own Iago." But it is Bluenose--boozy, profane, lustful, wise, comic, racked by passion for the wife who shuns him--whose inevitable fate finally sets Brant on his journey into the world.

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the Civil War, and how they were scrubbed from the history books.\n“It is my sincere hope that this compelling and submerged history is integrated into our understanding of our nation, and allows us to embrace new heroes of the past.”—Imani Perry, professor, Harvard University, and National Book Award–winning author of South to America\nWe all know how the Civil War was won: Courageous Yankees triumphed over the South. But is there more to the story?\nAs Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Howell Raines shows, it was not only soldiers from northern states who helped General William Tecumseh Sherman burn Atlanta to the ground but also an unsung regiment of 2,066 Alabamian yeoman farmers—including at least one member of Raines’s own family.\nCalled the First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A., this regiment of mountain Unionists, which included sixteen formerly enslaved Black men, was the point of the spear that Sherman drove through the heart of the Confederacy. The famed general hailed their skills and courage. So why don’t we know anything about them?\nSilent Cavalry is part epic American history, part family saga, and part scholarly detective story. Drawing on the lore of his native Alabama and investigative skills honed by six decades in journalism, Raines brings to light a conspiracy that sought to undermine the accomplishments of these renegade southerners—a key component of the Lost Cause effort to restore glory to white southerners after the war, even at the cost of the truth.\nIn this important new contribution to our understanding of the Civil War and its legacy, Raines tells the thrilling tale of the formation of the First Alabama while exposing the tangled web of how its wartime accomplishments were silenced, implicating everyone from a former Confederate general to a gaggle of Lost Cause historians in the Ivy League and a sanctimonious former keeper of the Alabama state archives. By reversing the erasure of the First Alabama, Silent Cavalry is a testament to the immense power of historians to destroy as well as to redeem.

Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History

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Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis

My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South

Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis

My Soul Is Rested

Whiskey Man

Whiskey Man

Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History

Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History

Whiskey Man

Fly Fishing Through The Midlife Crisis