Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

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Macmillan, Jul 15, 1993 - History - 229 pages

Looking for guidance in understanding the ways and means of Southern culture? Look no further. Florence King's celebrated field guide to the land below the Mason-Dixon Line is now blissfully back in print, just in time for the Clinton era. The Failed Souther Lady's classic primer on Dixie manners captures such storied types as the Southern Woman (frigid, passionate, sweet, bitchy, and scatterbrained--all at the same time), the Self-Rejuvenating Virgin, and the Good Ole Boy in all his coats and stripes. (The Clinton questions--is he a G.O.B. or isn't he?--Miss king covers in her hilarious new Afterword.) No one has ever made more sharp, scathing, affectionate, real sense out of the land of the endless Civil War than Florence King in these razor-edged pages.

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About the author (1993)

Florence King (1936-2016) is the author of Southern Ladies and Gentlemen, With Charity Toward None, and other books. A prolific writer of essays, articles, and books under various pseudonyms, she was best known for her columns "The Misanthrope's Corner" and "The Bent Pin" in National Review, and for her semi-autobiographical book, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady.