Background
Egerton, John Walden was born on June 14, 1935 in Atlanta. Son of William Graham and Rebecca Crenshaw (White) Egerton.
( Visionaries of all ages and places have pursued Utopias...)
Visionaries of all ages and places have pursued Utopias, dreaming impossible dreams of starting over in new communities fashioned more closely to their ideals. In Visions of Utopia, John Egerton traces the fascinating history of the experimental communities founded by such groups in Tennessee. He focuses in particular on three extraordinary colonies of the 19th century, each of them widely known in its time: Nashoba, and interracial settlement near Memphis in 1825; Rugby, an English cooperative community on the Cumberland Plateau in 1880; and Ruskin, a socialist community in Dickson County in 1894. John Egerton is a native Southerner – A Georgian by birth, a Kentuckian in his childhood and youth, a Floridian during the early 1960’s, and a Tennessean since 1965. He is a grandson of one of the English colonists who started the Rugby settlement in 1880. As a journalist and author, he has written articles on a variety of subjects for more than twenty magazines, and has published two books about the South: A Mind to Stay Here (1970) and The Americanization of Dixie (1974).
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(With a reminiscence by Robert Penn Warren. Period pieces ...)
With a reminiscence by Robert Penn Warren. Period pieces by Wilma Dykeman, John Hope Franklin, Dewey W. Grantham, and Sam B. Smith. Portraits in time by David Wright. A gallery of Nashville commerce by Louise Littleton Davis. Well-illustrated. A commemorative volume in honor of Nashville's first two centuries, published by the editors of Nashville! Magazine for the Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County Century III Commission.
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(Hailed as an instant classic when it appeared in 1987, Jo...)
Hailed as an instant classic when it appeared in 1987, John Egerton's Southern Food captures the flavor and feel of what it has meant for southerners, over the generations, to gather at the table. This book is for reading, for cooking, for eating (in and out), for referring to, for browsing in, and, above all, for enjoying. Egerton first explores southern food in more than 200 restaurants in eleven southern states; he describes their specialties and recounts his conversations with owners, cooks, waiters, and customers. Then, because some of the best southern cooking is done at home, Egerton offers more than 150 regional recipes, including barbecue, spoonbread, muscadine jam, and key lime pie, with informative and amusing information about each one.
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(A personal documentary of men and women whose lives show ...)
A personal documentary of men and women whose lives show that the south may be the most likely soil for the ideal of racial equality finally to take root.
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Egerton, John Walden was born on June 14, 1935 in Atlanta. Son of William Graham and Rebecca Crenshaw (White) Egerton.
Student, Western Kentucky State College, 1953-1954; Bachelor of Arts, University Kentucky, 1958; Master of Arts, University Kentucky, 1960.
With public relations Department, University Kentucky, 1958-1960; director public information, U. South Florida, 1960-1965; staff writer, Southern Education Report magazine, 1965-1969; staff writer, Race Relations Reporter magazine, 1969-1971.
(Hailed as an instant classic when it appeared in 1987, Jo...)
( Visionaries of all ages and places have pursued Utopias...)
(A personal documentary of men and women whose lives show ...)
(With a reminiscence by Robert Penn Warren. Period pieces ...)
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(Book by Egerton, John)
Served with Army of the United States, 1954-1956.
Married Ann Elizabeth Bleidt, June 6, 1957. Children: Brooks Bleidt, March White.