Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by Yale University Press $26.00
The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of...

Let Us Build Us A City: Eleven Lost Towns by Mariner Books $24.00
A book full of exquisite historical and personal detail, of authentic American lore and American speech. This is the story of eleven towns in Arkansas, relics of a time when the dreams of city builders were boundless. Photographs and maps. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Pocket Books $22.00
Forty years ago, Brown v. Board of Education brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas. Now Beals, one of the nine black teenagers chosen to be the first to integrate Central High School in 1957, commemorates that milestone decision with this dramatic first-person account.

A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School by Bill Clinton $16.00
When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and...

One with Others: [a little book of her days] by Copper Canyon Press $20.00
Poetry. Investigative journalism is the poet's realm when C.D. Wright returns to her native Arkansas and examines an explosive incident from the Civil Rights movement. Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns, lists, newspaper accounts, and personal memories—especially those of her incandescent mentor, Mrs. Vititow—with the voices of witnesses, neighbors, police, activists, and black students...

Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South (Making the Modern South) by Louisiana State University Press $45.00
In Delta Empire Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation owner in the Arkansas delta to recount the evolution of southern agriculture from the late nineteenth century through World War II. After his father's death in 1870, Robert E. ''Lee'' Wilson inherited 400 acres of land in Mississippi County, Arkansas. Over his lifetime, he transformed that inheritance into a...

Arkansas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff (Curiosities Series) by Globe Pequot $12.99
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Natural State has to offer!

Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by S.P.I. Books $18.95
COMPROMISED is the true story of the Faustian pact that Bill Clinton made as governor of Arkansas. It tells how his unbridled political ambitions and his pledge to create jobs for Arkansas led him to compromise his ideals in exchange for support for his presidential candidacy in 1992. By selling out politically to the Reagan–Bush administration, by giving the Agency free rein to operate a...

Long Shadow of Little Rock (The University of Arkansas Press reprint series) by Univ of Arkansas Pr $18.95
At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990's Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it,...

An Architecture of the Ozarks: The Works of Marlon Blackwell by Princeton Architectural Press $40.00
"I live, practice, teach, and build in northwest Arkansas, in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It's a place considered to be in the middle of nowhere, yet ironically close to everywhere. It is an environment of real natural beauty and, simultaneously, one of real constructed ugliness. Abandonment, exploitation, erasure and nostalgia are all aspects of this place and are conditions as...