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Confederacy of Silence

A True Tale of the New Old South

By: Richard Rubin

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Paperback | 4 June 2003 | Edition Number 1

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In this stunning twist on the timeless tale of an outsider fascinated by a closed society, a young Jewish writer goes back to Greenwood, Mississippi, where he had his first newspaper job, and covers a murder trial that challenges his notions of both the South and himself.

When Richard Rubin, fresh out of the Ivy League, accepts a job at a daily newspaper in the old Delta town of Greenwood, Mississippi, he is thrust into a place as different from his hometown of New York as any in the country. Yet to his surprise, he is warmly welcomed by the townspeople and soon finds his first great scoop in Handy Campbell, a poor, black teen and gifted high school quarterback who goes on to win a spot on Mississippi State's team—a training ground for the NFL.

Six years later, Rubin, back in New York, learns that Handy is locked up in Greenwood, accused of capital murder. Returning south to cover the trial, Rubin follows the trail that took Handy from the football field to county jail. As the best and worst elements of Mississippi rise up to do battle over one man's fate, Rubin must confront his own unresolved feelings about the confederacy of silence that initially enabled him to thrive in Greenwood but ultimately forced him to leave it.

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The New Yorker [Rubin's] willingness to look honestly at the complexity of race in today's South is invigorating, and the book's conclusion...is shattering.

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Prologue: Thanksgiving, 1994
The High-Water Mark of My Confederacy
Hospitality State A Fine Introduction
The Alternate State Capital of Mississippi They'll Eat You Alive
The Last of Their Kind There Is No News How People Really Lived
The Briefest Experience of Perfection My Job Some Kind of Club
The High-Water Mark of My Confederacy Bye, Baby
A Bad Place to be
The New Old South
The Benefits of Being a White Man Contaminated
The Delta Way A Bad Place to Be He Who Stands Firm Diorama
In Every Man
The Death of My Greenwood
One More Mississippi Mystery Something Blue Confederacy of Silence
The Death of My Greenwood
Afcknowledgments
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