Tag: @UGAPress

• {2015 New Releases} Week 7: Feb 9-15

  

  The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by: Issa Rae In the bestselling tradition of Sloane Crosley’s I Was Told There’d Be Cake and Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, a collection of humorous essays on what it’s like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits, and black […]

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  February 9, 2015

  New Releases

  #issarae, @UGAPress, Adam Rex, Alice Dunnigan, April Ryan, Doctor Dread, Issa Rae, John Lewis, The Half That’s Never Been Told by: Doctor Dread, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by: Issa Rae, The True Meaning of Smekday by: Adam Rex, University of Georgia Press, Valmore James, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by: John Lewis

• {Book Attraction} Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press by: Alice Dunnigan, Carol McCabe Booker

  

  In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper’s daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation’s capitol and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. With Alone atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan’s 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations […]

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  January 25, 2015

  Book Attraction

  @UGAPress, Alice Allison Dunnigan, Carol McCabe Booker, Department of State and the Supreme Court, Ethel Payne, Helen Thomas, House and Senate Press Galleries, Kentucky, President Eisenhower, President Truman, University of Georgia Press, White House Newswomen’s Association, Women’s National Press Club, World War II