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Author Flynt, Wayne, 1940-

Title Keeping the faith : ordinary people, extraordinary lives : a memoir / Wayne Flynt
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 400 pages) : illustrations
Series Religion & American Culture
Religion & American Culture
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Flynt, Wayne, 1940-
SUBJECT Flynt, Wayne, 1940- fast
Subject Auburn University -- Faculty -- Biography
SUBJECT Auburn University fast
Subject Historians -- Alabama -- Biography
College teachers -- Alabama -- Auburn -- Biography
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States
Educational change -- United States
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
College teachers
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
Educational change
Historians
Historiography
Politics and government
Social conditions
Universities and colleges -- Faculty
SUBJECT Alabama -- Historiography
Alabama -- Social conditions
Alabama -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003096
Subject Alabama
Alabama -- Auburn
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010052458
ISBN 9780817385965
0817385967