The Other Mississippi: A State in Conflict with Itself - Paperback

by David Sansing (Author)

William Faulkner said he wrote about the human heart in conflict with itself, and set most of his greatest work in that "postage stamp of native soil" in Mississippi, which like the human heart is in conflict with itself. "David Sansing, in typical form, utilizes his remarkable talent as a Southern historian to highlight an amazing portrait of the 'Other Mississippi' - one in which the closed society of the past is only part of the story of our state. In captivating style, David eloquently reminds us all of the common bonds that bind us, as it gives a candid, yet hopeful view of Mississippi's continuing struggles - ones in which we 'cannot rewrite the past but can chart our own future'." William Winter Governor, Mississippi (1980-1984)

Author Biography

David G. Sansing is emeritus professor of history at the University of Mississippi. He was born in 1933 in Greenville, Mississippi, and earned his BA and MA degrees from Mississippi College and his PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi. In addition to authoring several school textbooks on the history of Mississippi, Sansing has written A History of the Mississippi Governor's Mansion (with Carroll Waller), The University of Mississippi, A Sesquicentennial History, A Troubled History: Governance of Higher Education in Mississippi, and Mississippi Governors: Soldiers Statesmen Scholars Scoundrels (A Bicentennial Edition).