All Over But the Shoutin’
Author: Rick Bragg
This haunting, harrowing, and gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or die state penitentiary. How Bragg instead became a Pulitzer Prize — winning reporter for The New York Times is only one of the stories he tells in All Over….Read More
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