by Carl Carmer
introduction by Howell Raines
University of Alabama Press, 2000
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8998-7 | Paper: 978-0-8173-1072-1
Library of Congress Classification F326.C275 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 976.1

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Stars Fell on Alabama is truly a classic. The book enjoyed enormous popularity and notoriety when it was first published (it was a selection of The Literary Guild and also sold widely in Europe). It can be described as a book of folkways—not journalism, or history, or a novel. At times it is impressionistic; at other times it conveys deep insights into the character of Alabama. Carmer visited every region of the state, always accompanied by someone intimately familiar with the locality. The mosaic that emerges from the pages of his book portrays Alabama’s human landscape in all its variety, and it is a work essential to an understanding of Alabama and its culture.



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