Heroes and Other Mortals - Gaillard, Frye
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"Frye Gaillard did not set out to write this book. One day as he was thumbing through a cardboard box of his essays, columns, and profiles, he simply realized that he had done it. Each article told the story of a woman or man standing against social injustice, or exploring the pain and ambiguity of the human condition. Some of his subjects succeeded in what they were trying to do. Others did not. But each story, Gaillard thought, contained a measure of inspiration. Against the backdrop of our turbulent time - our era of lesser angels on the rise - he decided to celebrate the people who have…mehr

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"Frye Gaillard did not set out to write this book. One day as he was thumbing through a cardboard box of his essays, columns, and profiles, he simply realized that he had done it. Each article told the story of a woman or man standing against social injustice, or exploring the pain and ambiguity of the human condition. Some of his subjects succeeded in what they were trying to do. Others did not. But each story, Gaillard thought, contained a measure of inspiration. Against the backdrop of our turbulent time - our era of lesser angels on the rise - he decided to celebrate the people who have tried to make things better. Where, he asks, would the rest of us be without them?"--
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FRYE GAILLARD is a former writer-in-residence in the English and history departments at the University of South Alabama. He is the author of thirty books, including With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and Their Passions; Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America , winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award; The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, winner of the Gustavus Myers Award; and A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s (Georgia), an NPR best book of 2018. He lives in Mobile, Alabama.