Books published by Sartoris Literary Group

HOW DID THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, THE PARTY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, MUTATE INTO A WHITE IDENTITY POLITICAL ENTITY THAT TODAY PROMOTES THE RACIST VIEWPOINTS OF THE OLD CONFEDERACY?

A suspenseful romance novel about a woman who lives on an Island in the St. Lawrence River that runs between Ontario, Canada and New York State. A well-known artist, she loses her husband and daughter in a boating accident and tries to move on with her life by dating a member of the Canadian Parliament and a psychologist in New York.

Rumors of a legendary treasure trigger a battle over possession of a Choctaw family farm. Two young lawyers, John Brooks and Jackson Bradley, agree to help the family keep their farm. Early legal success prompts the drive-by murder of the patriarch of the family. The grandson chases the suspects whose bodies are found on the farm, scalped. At the same time clues to a vast treasure are found on the farm. Jackson, pursued by fortune seekers, adventurers, an exotic beauty and a homicidal maniac, follows the clues from a Caribbean reef to the Chiapas jungle. John stays behind to defend the grandson and continue the fight for the farm. His efforts are complicated by arson, murder, race riots, and the realization that he lost his one true love. Though there is great distance between them, their adventures are intertwined as they rush toward a triple climax that could shake the world. Join the adventure and discover your "Maximilian's Treasure."Rumors of a legendary treasure trigger a battle over possession of a Choctaw family farm. Two young lawyers, John Brooks and Jackson Bradley, agree to help the family keep their farm. Early legal success prompts the drive-by murder of the patriarch of the family. The grandson chases the suspects whose bodies are found on the farm, scalped. At the same time clues to a vast treasure are found on the farm. Jackson, pursued by fortune seekers, adventurers, an exotic beauty and a homicidal maniac, follows the clues from a Caribbean reef to the Chiapas jungle. John stays behind to defend the grandson and continue the fight for the farm. His efforts are complicated by arson, murder, race riots, and the realization that he lost his one true love. Though there is great distance between them, their adventures are intertwined as they rush toward a triple climax that could shake the world. Join the adventure and discover your "Maximilian's Treasure."Rumors of a legendary treasure trigger a battle over possession of a Choctaw family farm. Two young lawyers, John Brooks and Jackson Bradley, agree to help the family keep their farm. Early legal success prompts the drive-by murder of the patriarch of the family. The grandson chases the suspects whose bodies are found on the farm, scalped. At the same time clues to a vast treasure are found on the farm. Jackson, pursued by fortune seekers, adventurers, an exotic beauty and a homicidal maniac, follows the clues from a Caribbean reef to the Chiapas jungle. John stays behind to defend the grandson and continue the fight for the farm. His efforts are complicated by arson, murder, race riots, and the realization that he lost his one true love. Though there is great distance between them, their adventures are intertwined as they rush toward a triple climax that could shake the world. Join the adventure and discover your "Maximilian's Treasure."

Racism and xenophobia have long challenged democracy, a battle played out dramatically in the concentration camps built, staffed, and filled with adults and children under the orders of the U.S. Government. The camps first appeared in the nineteenth century with the imprisonment of Native Americans, then returned during World War II with the roundup of Japanese Americans (most of them citizens of the United States), German Americans, Italian Americans, and Jews fleeing the cruelty and death camps associated with Nazi Germany.The issue resurfaced during the George Bush administration with the construction of twenty-two new concentration camps and secret plans to build up to 800 additional facilities. And the policy continued during the Donald Trump administration which has imprisoned tens of thousands of Hispanic refugees fleeing persecution in their homelands. Especially heinous has been the Trump Administration's willingness to imprison thousands of children in horrendous conditions in which the children are often deprived of humane living conditions, receiving inadequate food and water, crowded living conditions, and substandard medical treatment. American families treating their children in this manner would quickly find themselves in prison.Inside America's Concentration Camps explores the history and tragedy of the camps in a vivid narrative that brings the victims' stories to life and the flaws of our government in focus. Based on interviews and extensive research, the book is an investigative history that exposes the erosion of democracy in America and calls upon ordinary Americans to take their country back to its glory days as a fearless defender of individual freedom.

Mojo Rising: Volume 2 - Contemporary Writers is a short story anthology that contains the work of some of the finest writers associated with the geographic region known as the Mojo Triangle (Mississippi, Memphis, New Orleans and Nashville).

Miss Juanita, now approaching 98 years of age, first moved to the Mississippi Delta with her family during the late 1930s after her father's two department stores in Tupelo disappeared almost overnight-one was burned to the ground by an arsonist, the other was robbed by criminals in large trucks who cleaned out the merchandise late one night.The granddaughter of one of the framers of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 and the cousin to a member of the House of Representatives, Hilton Waits of Leland, who also served as speaker pro tem, she survived the loss of her first husband, James L. Dickerson, who served in the Army Air Corps during World War II but was killed in a boating accident in the 1950s, and raised two children as a single mother-the daughter ending up teaching nursing and the son ending up working for some of the South's best newspapers and writing more than 30 books-only to later survive the cancer death of her second husband, Dick Caldwell, a retired World War II U.S. Army captain and businessman …. all the time collecting recipes for meals that were prepared while living daily life in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. This remarkable collection of over 100 recipes serves as a culinary documentary representing more than 80 years of preparing and enjoying the unique cuisine of the Mississippi Delta, a unique place both geographically and culturally.Some of the recipes in the book, such as the one for Thanksgiving and Christmas cornbread dressing, and the one for chicken 'n' Dumplin's, date back to the 1930s, while others such as the ones for Tamale Pie and Amalgamation Cake emerged in the 1950s.For those who walk on the wild side there are recipes for Squirrel Dumplin's, Wild Dove, and marinated venison. For those with a sweet tooth, there is a recipe for Miss Juanita's most popular desert, Frozen French Pastry, along with recipes for banana pudding, her incredible caramel pie, chocolate cake, light-as-air Meringue Kisses, Date Nut Cake, Southern Lemon Icebox Pie, and Toasted Coconut Pie. Reading the book offers a culinary walk through Mississippi Delta history.

Biography of actress and social activist Ashley Judd, from birth to present.

Travel guide for the American South with a focus on music. The Mojo Triangle is a cultural land area located within a triangular connection between New Orleans, Nashville and Memphis. The birthplace of country, blues, jazz, and rock 'n' roll, the Mojo Triangle has presented the world with an astonishing array of original music.

A 100 year history of Memphis music, featuring interviews with many of the players who made the history

The winner of the 2006 IPPY Award for best non-fiction book from the South (presented by the Independent Publishers Association), the Mojo Triangle tells the true story-at long last-of the birth of the blues, rock 'n' roll, country and jazz!

Memoir of Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley's first guitarist and manager.When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillip's Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Sam asked guitarist Scotty and bass player Bill Black to work with Elvis-and the music they created as the Blue Moon Boys launched what became known as rock 'n' roll.Scotty and Bill toured with the young singer, and played on all of his Sun sessions and his first recordings for RCA; Scotty also served as Elvis's manager. With Bill Black and Elvis both gone, Scotty is the only remaining member of the original trio who can tell the true story of how Elvis transformed popular music-and how Scotty created the guitar sound that has become the prototype for all rock guitar that followed, prompting Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards to proclaim, "Everyone else wanted to be Elvis-I wanted to be Scotty."For all fans of Elvis Presley and his music-and for all lovers of rock 'n' roll-this is a compelling story. Scotty Moore is a guitarist, recording engineer and record producer. This was his first book with James L. Dickerson. He passed away in 2016 at his home in Nashville, Tennessee.James L. Dickerson is an award-winning writer and journalist, author of the music histories "Mojo Triangle" and "Memphis Going Down."Memoir of Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley's first guitarist and manager.When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillip's Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Sam asked guitarist Scotty and bass player Bill Black to work with Elvis-and the music they created as the Blue Moon Boys launched what became known as rock 'n' roll.Scotty and Bill toured with the young singer, and played on all of his Sun sessions and his first recordings for RCA; Scotty also served as Elvis's manager. With Bill Black and Elvis both gone, Scotty is the only remaining member of the original trio who can tell the true story of how Elvis transformed popular music-and how Scotty created the guitar sound that has become the prototype for all rock guitar that followed, prompting Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards to proclaim, "Everyone else wanted to be Elvis-I wanted to be Scotty."For all fans of Elvis Presley and his music-and for all lovers of rock 'n' roll-this is a compelling story. Scotty Moore is a guitarist, recording engineer and record producer. This was his first book with James L. Dickerson. He passed away in 2016 at his home in Nashville, Tennessee.James L. Dickerson is an award-winning writer and journalist, author of the music histories "Mojo Triangle," "Colonel Tom Parker" and "Memphis Going Down."

This is a biography of country/pop recording artist Faith Hill.

SOON TO BE MADE INTO A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Based on unprecedented, original research and interviews with insiders, this authoritative biography of Colonel Tom Parker (1909-1997), Elvis Presley's lifelong manager, includes new revelations and insights into the music industry's most notorious and mysterious manager.