Books by John Shelton Reed

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Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue. (with D. V. Reed) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2008.

Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing. (edited with D. V. Reed) Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008.

Townways of Kent by Ralph C. Patrick (edited and with a new introduction by J. S. Reed and D. V. Reed). Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008.

Minding the South. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003.

1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the South (with D. V. Reed). New York: Doubleday, 1996.

(Alternate selection, Conservative Book Club.)

Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996. London: Tufton Books, 1998.

(Recommended reading, Project Canterbury.)

Kicking Back: Further Dispatches from the South. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995.

Surveying the South: Studies in Regional Sociology. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993.

"My Tears Spoiled My Aim" and Other Reflections on Southern Culture. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993. Harcourt Brace/Harvest Books ed., 1994

Whistling Dixie: Dispatches from the South. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990. HBJ/Harvest Books ed., 1992.

Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy: Native White Social Types. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

Southerners: The Social Psychology of Sectionalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

(Featured Selection, North Carolina Book Club.)

Regionalism and the South: Selected Papers of Rupert Vance (edited and with an introduction by J. S. Reed and D. J. Singal). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture (edited with M. Black). New York: Gordon & Breach, Science Publishers, Vol. 1,1981, and Vol. 2, 1983.

The Enduring Effects of Education (with H. Hyman and C. Wright). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.

The Enduring South: Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1972. Paperback ed., Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974; revised ed., 1986.

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