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Books by John Shelton Reed

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On Barbecue
University of Tennessee Press, 2021    

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      From the reviews. . . 

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Mixing It Up
A South-Watcher's Miscellany

Louisiana State University Press, 2018.
 
​       From the reviews. . . 


  


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  ​Leftovers
    Bozart Books, 2018.   

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​Barbecue
​A Savor the South
® Cookbook 
University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

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From the reviews. . .
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Selection, Good Cook Book Club

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​Dixie Bohemia
A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s 

Louisiana State University Press, 2012.

​      From the reviews. . .




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​Holy Smoke
The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue
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(with Dale Volberg Reed and William McKinney).
University of North Carolina Press, 2008; paperback edition, 2016.
      From the reviews. . . 


​First Place, National Barbecue ​Association Awards of Excellence, 2017
Finalist, International Association of Culinary Professionals American Cookbook Award, 2009
​Named "Great Book on Barbecue," Australasian Barbecue Alliance
Selected
 by the North Carolina Center for the Book to represent North Carolina in 2019 Route1Reads
Picketed by PETA at Malaprop's Bookstore, Asheville, 2009

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​Cornbread Nation 4
The Best of Southern Food Writing

(edited with Dale Volberg Reed).
University of Georgia Press, 2008.
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      From the reviews. . . 

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​Townways of Kent
by Ralph C. Patrick
​(edited and with a new introduction by JSR and Dale Volberg Reed).
University of South Carolina Press, 2008.

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​Minding the South
University of Missouri Press, 2003; Transaction Publishers (now Routledge), 2013.

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 ​     From the reviews. . . .

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1001 Things Everyone Should Know
      About the South
 

​(with Dale Volberg Reed).
Doubleday, 1996.
     From the reviews. . .


​Alternate selection, Conservative Book Club

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Glorious Battle
​​The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-
Catholicism

Vanderbilt University Press, 1996; U.K. edition, Tufton Books, 1998; Bozart Books, 2017.​
    From the reviews. . 

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​Recommended reading, Project Canterbury

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​Kicking Back
Further Dispatches from the South

University of Missouri Press, 1995.

 ​     From the reviews. . . 

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​Surveying the South
Studies in Regional Sociology

University of Missouri Press, 1993.
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      From the reviews. . . 

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​My Tears Spoiled My Aim
    and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

University of Missouri Press, 1993; Harcourt Brace/Harvest Books, 1994.
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      From the reviews. . . .

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​Whistling Dixie
Dispatches from the South

University of Missouri Press, 1990; HBJ/Harvest Books ed., 1992.
     
​      From the reviews. . . .

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​​Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy
Native White Social Types

University of Georgia Press, 1986.

      From the reviews. . .

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​Southerners
The Social Psychology of Sectionalism
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University of North Carolina Press, 1983; BookSurge Publishing, 2008.
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      From the reviews. . . 

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One South
An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture

Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

 ​     
From the reviews. . .
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​​Featured Selection, North Carolina Book Club

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​Regionalism and the South
Selected Papers of Rupert Vance
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(edited and with an introduction by JSR and Daniel Joseph Singal).
University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
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​Perspectives on the American South
An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture

(edited with Merle Black)
Gordon & Breach, Science Publishers, Vol. 1, 1981, and Vol. 2, 1983.
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​The Enduring Effects of Education
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(with Herbert H. Hyman and Charles R. Wright)
University of Chicago Press, 1975.

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​The Enduring South
Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society

D. C. Heath, 1972; University of North Carolina Press, 1974 (revised edition, 1986).

      From the reviews. . . .

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