Leah Rawls Atkins |
Leah Rawls Atkins now lives in Hoover, though she was born in Birmingham and had a distinguished career on the faculty of Auburn University, The University of Alabama at Birmingham and Samford University. She is respected as one of the South's leading historians. Her most recent work, John M. Harbert, III: Marching to the Tune of a Different Dummer, was an objective look at the real life of one of Tom Wolfe's composite characters in Man in Full. She was a major contributor to the accepted benchmark of our state's history books, Alabama: The History of a Deep South State.
Dr. Atkins is the only major author inducted into The Alabama Sports Hall of Fame: she is a former world champion water skier. Her other well known works include the following:
Birmingham & Jefferson County: An Illustrated History
An Alabama Legacy
Party Politics in Alabama from 1850 through 1860
Winnataska Remembered
Made in Alabama
Rick Bragg in the Movies
Even though you weren’t able to attend the September 26, 2011, sold-out world premiere of Alabama’s Rick Bragg: Out of the Dirt, here’s your opportunity to view the entire movie at home, as well as much bonus footage not seen in the original documentary.
Listen in on distinguished Alabamaians, local friends and family tell inside tales on Rick as a child and award-winning best-selling author. Rick also gives his life’s philosophy in many scenes. Find out about his mother’s poetry; hear his aunt tell of dressing him as a girl when he was a tot. If ever there was a priceless gift, this is it.
You may order the two DVD (22.95) set through our secure, encrypted link Here
We also have signed copies of every edition of every Rick Bragg title ever written. You may view those by Clicking Here
