Leaving Birmingham: 2notes of a Native Son

Paul Hemphill / Author Penguin Books $12.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-

The author of Too Old to Cry offers an anecdotal history of his hometown, Birmingham, Ala., during the civil rights movement. (Jan.)

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