{"product_id":"mississippi-the-closed-society-paperback","title":"Mississippi: The Closed Society - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames W. Silver\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMississippi: The Closed Society\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about an insurrection in modern America, more particularly, about the social and historical background of that insurrection. It is written by a Mississippian who is a historian, and who, on September 30, 1962, witnessed the long night of riot that exploded on the campus of the University of Mississippi at Oxford, when students, and, later, adults with no connection with the University, attacked United States marshals sent to the campus to protect James H. Meredith, the first African American to attend Ole Miss. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the first part of \u003ci\u003eMississippi: The Closed Society\u003c\/i\u003e, Silver describes how the state's commitment to the doctrine of white supremacy led to a situation in which the Mississippian found that continued intransigence (and possibly violence) was the only course offered to him. In these chapters the author speaks in the more formal measures of the historian. In the second part of the book, \"Some Letters from the Closed Society,\" he reproduces (among other correspondence and memoranda) a series of his letters to friends and family--and critics--in the days and weeks after the insurrection. Here he reveals himself more personally and forcefully. In both parts of the book are disclosed the mind and heart of the Mississippian who is as haunted as William Faulkner was by the moral chaos of his native land.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential Civil Rights-era account of a witness to the Oxford riots and Mississippi's nadir\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames W. Silver\u003c\/b\u003e (1907-1988) was professor of history at the University of Mississippi. He is author of \u003ci\u003eRunning Scared: Silver in Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEdmund Pendleton Gaines, Frontier General \u003c\/i\u003eand editor (with John K. Bettersworth) of \u003ci\u003eMississippi in the Confederacy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 25, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773626450208,"sku":"9781617033124","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d435781fffed28ad20fa933f63e9ec19_5a82fef9-9b73-4d52-98ee-f7dd1030a032.webp?v=1780429318","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mississippi-the-closed-society-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}