Jon Meacham

"In thinking about her native land, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, 'It's the juxtapositions that get you, down here.' These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South, and in her warmhearted and funny new book ... she chronicles her adventures through the highs and the lows of Southern life -- the Delta hot tamale festival, a masked ball, a rollicking party in a boat ... scary Christian billboards, and...