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An insider’s account of the convergences of twentieth-century American politics and journalism, from Vietnam and the civil rights movement to CNN and the twenty-four-hour news cycle

Driven brings a seasoned perspective to today’s conversations about government, media, and the future of truth in a deeply personal and long-awaited autobiography by Tom Johnson, an award-winning journalist who helped shape the twenty-four-hour news media as we know it.

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Anthony Benezet

Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain’s great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power...

A Desert between Two Seas

Set in the crumbling Spanish missions of nineteenth-century Baja California, this mythic novel in linked stories follows two grief-stricken people as haunted as the desolate chapels around them: a priest...

Meridian Rising

Known for “Blue Yodel (T for Texas),” “Waiting for a Train,” and “In the Jailhouse Now,” Jimmie Rodgers’s impact on American music is incalculable. Paul Burch's bio-fictional tale of the...

unMothered, unTongued

unMothered, unTongued is a collection of lyric essays written from the liminal space of the in-between. These essays thread themselves around questions of language, landscape, and identity, weaving...

All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers

Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries

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Q&A With Don Cusic on New Biography of Chet Atkins

Sarah Bell / May 1, 2025 Next month, the UGA Press is excited to publish Chet Atkins: Mr. Guitar by Don Cusic. This biography is a thorough, compelling account of Atkins as one of…

Flannery O’Connor at 100: The Short Fiction Master’s Legacy Lives On

Sarah Shermyen March 25th, 2025 marks 100 years since the birth of acclaimed author, Flannery O’Connor. Though she only published two novels and two collections of short fiction in her…

UGA Press Announces African Language Literatures in Translation Series

New series is devoted to making remarkable writing from Africa available to Anglophone audiences around the world The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce African Language Literatures in Translation,…

Yes, by that Kirby Smart.

How 'Bout Them Dawgs!

How ’Bout Them Dawgs! tells the behind-the-scenes story of the University of Georgia’s 2021 college football national championship season from the perspective of the man in charge: Kirby Smart....