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Author Greene, Melissa Fay.

Title Praying for sheetrock : a work of nonfiction / Melissa Fay Greene.

Publication Info. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, [1991]
©1991

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HN79.G42 M354 1991    Available  ---
Description x, 335 pages ; 25 cm
Contents The old way -- Pff the road and far from money -- The education of Thurnell Alston -- "Howdy folks, this is your lucky day" -- Deacon Curry, Deacon Thorpe, and the little deputies -- Praying for sheetrock -- Shoot a man in broad daylight? -- The three musketeers -- Circuit riding into the past -- The White Boys' Bible -- The boycott -- "Go to go vote for my little Thurnell" -- The old fox gets away again -- Commissioner Alston -- "Through the ocean of the sea for her child" -- The music man -- "Head in the lion's mouth, got to ease it out".
Subject McIntosh County (Ga.) -- Social conditions.
McIntosh County (Ga.) -- Politics and government.
Political corruption -- Georgia -- McIntosh County -- History -- 20th century.
Political corruption.
Georgia -- McIntosh County.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject McIntosh County (Ga.) -- Race relations.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Georgia -- McIntosh County -- History -- 20th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Police corruption -- Georgia -- McIntosh County -- History -- 20th century.
Police corruption.
Poppell, Thomas Hardwick.
Poppell, Thomas Hardwick.
Sheriffs -- Georgia -- McIntosh County -- Biography.
Sheriffs.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 0201550482 : $21-95 ($28.95 Can.)