Research Catalog

Title

Keeping the faith : ordinary people, extraordinary lives : a memoir / Wayne Flynt.

Author

Flynt, Wayne, 1940-

Publication

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.

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Description

x, 400 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

This historical memoir by the widely recognized scholar, Wayne Flynt, chronicles the inner workings of his academic career at Samford and Auburn Universities, as well as his many contributions to the general history of Alabama. Flynt has traveled the state and the South lecturing and teaching both lay and academic groups, calling on his detailed knowledge of both the history and power structures in Alabama to reveal uncomfortable truths wherever he finds them, whether in academic institutions that fall short of their stated missions, in government and industry leaders who seek and hold power by playing to the fears and prejudices of the public, or in religious groups who abandon their original missions and instead seek financial and emotional comfort in lip service only.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Flynt, Wayne, 1940-
• Auburn University > Faculty > Biography
• Educational change > United States
• Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States
• Historians > Alabama > Biography
• College teachers > Auburn > Biography
• Alabama > Historiography
• Alabama > Social conditions
• Alabama > Politics and government

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ancestors, real and imagined -- An Alabama childhood -- Discoveries and awakenings -- Going home -- Sweet Auburn, stormiest village of the plain -- "Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain" -- "Where my possessions lie" : writing about ordinary people -- Democratizing learning : university outreach -- "The lord is the maker of them all" : black, white, and poor in America -- Reforming American education -- Principalities and powers : battling for a new constitution and a new politics -- In the eye of the storm : Auburn University, 1989-2000 -- "Ever to conquer, never to yield" : inside the Auburn tigers, 1977-2005 -- Valhalla on the Plains -- Ken's barbeque and other third places.

ISBN

• 9780817317546 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780817385965 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2010052458

OCLC

• 694509755
• SCSB-10609141

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library