Wyatt Blassingame's Books

Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time is back with an all-new story by the creator of Doc Savage, Lester Dent. Also featuring classic hard-boiled detective stories by Horace McCoy, Wyatt Blassingame, Day Keene, Herbert Koehl, Kent Richards, Stephen McBarron, Dwight V. Babcock, Hugh B. Cave, and Edgar Franklin, all from the golden age of pulp fiction. With vintage brush illustrations by Arthur Rodman Bowker, as well as a previously-unpublished interview with the author of Donovan’s Brain, Curt Siodmak.

Brief biographies of the presidents of the United States from George Washington to George Bush.

Hailed as a classic by reviewers and historians, Bertram Wyatt-Brown's Southern Honor now appears in abridged form under the title Honor and Violence in the Old South. Winner of a Phi Alpha Theta Book Award and a Jefferson Davis Memorial Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, this is the first major reinterpretation of Southern life and custom since W.J, Cash's The Mind of the South. It explores the meaning and expression of the ancient code of honor as whites—both slaveholders and non-slaveholders—applied it to their lives. Wyatt-Brown ranges widely—covering topics such as childbearing, marital patterns, duelling, slave discipline, and lynch-law—to discover the role of honor in the psyche of white Southerners.

First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1983"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Access is available to the Yale community.

In this culminating work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honor—a subject on which he was the acknowledged expert—and places it in a broader historical and cultural context than ever before. Wyatt-Brown begins with the contention that honor cannot be understood without considering the role of humiliation, which not only sets victor apart from vanquished but drives the search for vindication that is integral to notions of honor. The American conception of honor is further deepened by issues of race. The author turns to the slave South to show how white and black concepts of honor differed from and contradicted each other, illuminating honor’s elusive but powerful role in our society. He then goes on to explore these themes within a wide range of military and political contexts, from the Revolutionary War to Desert Storm, providing new insights on how honor drove decision making during many defining events in our history that continue to reverberate in the American mind.

Extending his investigation into the ethical life of the white American South beyond what he wrote in Southern Honor (1982), Bertram Wyatt-Brown explores three major themes in southern history: the political aspects of the South's code of honor, th

A biography of the naturalist, explorer, and writer emphasizing his underwater explorations and discoveries about marine life.

Discusses the characteristics and habits of various species of turtles.

Introduces the crocodilian creatures of the world and discusses some of their habits and peculiar characteristics.

Illustrates through case histories the increasingly important role of science in the detection of crime.

Biography of the nineteenth-century hunter, trapper, Indian chief, trader, gold seeker, innkeeper, and rancher who discovered a pass in the Sierra Nevadas which bears his name.

Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of sharks.

Describes thirteen North American species of long-legged and long-necked migratory wading birds, including the great egret, American bittern, and Louisiana heron.

Describes the Inca civilization in Peru and how it was destroyed by the Spanish conquest.

Discusses general characteristics of skunks, various species, skunks as pets, and the mustelid family to which this little animal with the powerful weapon belongs.

Text and photographs introduce the physical characteristics and habits of various species of frogs and toads.

Brief biographies of the presidents of the United States from George Washington to George Bush.

Here are the stories of the courageous young women who served at Pearl Harbor, Corregidor, Anzio, the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, and other fighting fronts of World War II. As an intelligence officer with the Naval Air Corps in World War II, Wyatt Blassingame served on the islands of Tinian and Okinawa, earning a Bronze Star. He witnessed the work of army and navy nurses when he visited sick and wounded comrades in hospitals on Hawaii, Saipan, and Okinawa. Original illustrations by Gil Walker.

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