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The Switcher
The son of passionate Democrats, Jim Herring ultimately became the only state chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party to serve previously on the Mississippi Democratic Party executive committee.
Given his family’s deep Democratic roots, this proved quite a journey!
The Switcher is Jim’s vivid, birds-eye account of the politicians, parties, and principles that competed for voters’ allegiances during the 1960s through 2008 in Mississippi.
Readers witness unfurling political events, power plays, and personalities as the state’s upstart Republicans battled to achieve a viable two-party system against the state Democratic machine set on preserving its good-old-boy vice grip on state politics.
After solid but unsuccessful races as a Democrat for lieutenant governor (1975) and governor (1979), Jim grew increasingly disillusioned with the MDP’s constant infighting and disorganization.
Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan became president of the United States. Captivated by Reagan’s articulate and optimistic conservatism, Jim moved into the MRP in the early 1980s.
This made Jim a “switcher,” a less-than flattering label sometimes applied to MRP newcomers. With time and hard work, however, Jim was elected in 2001 as MRP chairman, a post he held through 2008.
He also rose nationally to become the Republican National Committee’s Chairman of the State Chairmen, a role that placed him on the RNC Executive Committee as a leader at the 2008 Republican National Convention.
As MRP chairman from 2001 to 2008, Jim’s chief passion was to see Mississippi develop a real two-party system that operated along partisan lines so voters could be informed about both parties’ real goals and convictions.
In 2007, his last full year as state chairman, Mississippi Republicans took control of the Mississippi Senate for the first time since Reconstruction. “For Herring,” wrote one columnist, “it had to be a sweet victory.”
Given his family’s deep Democratic roots, this proved quite a journey!
The Switcher is Jim’s vivid, birds-eye account of the politicians, parties, and principles that competed for voters’ allegiances during the 1960s through 2008 in Mississippi.
Readers witness unfurling political events, power plays, and personalities as the state’s upstart Republicans battled to achieve a viable two-party system against the state Democratic machine set on preserving its good-old-boy vice grip on state politics.
After solid but unsuccessful races as a Democrat for lieutenant governor (1975) and governor (1979), Jim grew increasingly disillusioned with the MDP’s constant infighting and disorganization.
Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan became president of the United States. Captivated by Reagan’s articulate and optimistic conservatism, Jim moved into the MRP in the early 1980s.
This made Jim a “switcher,” a less-than flattering label sometimes applied to MRP newcomers. With time and hard work, however, Jim was elected in 2001 as MRP chairman, a post he held through 2008.
He also rose nationally to become the Republican National Committee’s Chairman of the State Chairmen, a role that placed him on the RNC Executive Committee as a leader at the 2008 Republican National Convention.
As MRP chairman from 2001 to 2008, Jim’s chief passion was to see Mississippi develop a real two-party system that operated along partisan lines so voters could be informed about both parties’ real goals and convictions.
In 2007, his last full year as state chairman, Mississippi Republicans took control of the Mississippi Senate for the first time since Reconstruction. “For Herring,” wrote one columnist, “it had to be a sweet victory.”
Against All Odds: The Life and Times of Lee White
Lee Whites don’t come along often.
The son of a dirt-poor pig farmer, Lee took over the farm at the age of fourteen after his father’s untimely death.
Some would have felt trapped, but Lee started a logging supply business out of his old Dodge pickup truck that has grown into a multi-million dollar empire of Volvo and Mack Truck dealerships.
Now he’s enjoying life with his wife, Dee, and their blended family of seven children and nine grandchildren.
Lee’s rags-to-riches story, filled with crazy ups and downs, is one of triumph against all odds.
The son of a dirt-poor pig farmer, Lee took over the farm at the age of fourteen after his father’s untimely death.
Some would have felt trapped, but Lee started a logging supply business out of his old Dodge pickup truck that has grown into a multi-million dollar empire of Volvo and Mack Truck dealerships.
Now he’s enjoying life with his wife, Dee, and their blended family of seven children and nine grandchildren.
Lee’s rags-to-riches story, filled with crazy ups and downs, is one of triumph against all odds.
Delta Spirit
A sharecropper’s daughter in the Mississippi Delta, Dr. Clara Reed grew up in a three-room shack and attended a one-room schoolhouse.
Today, she is the state’s wealthiest self-made business woman and a beacon of faith, hope, and healing, breaking down race and gender barriers.
In the 1970s, she founded the state’s first black-owned private home health business. She was the first black director of nursing in her town.
She currently employs hundreds, while pastoring a church in Mississippi’s poorest county. Powerful people including politicians, media, and even mob associates, tried to ruin her, but she stood them down with God’s help.
Now she finally tells her amazing story. Dr. Reed has many national and state honors, and remarkably, she has never surrendered to hate. “I love Mississippi. I love the land and our people.”
Today, she is the state’s wealthiest self-made business woman and a beacon of faith, hope, and healing, breaking down race and gender barriers.
In the 1970s, she founded the state’s first black-owned private home health business. She was the first black director of nursing in her town.
She currently employs hundreds, while pastoring a church in Mississippi’s poorest county. Powerful people including politicians, media, and even mob associates, tried to ruin her, but she stood them down with God’s help.
Now she finally tells her amazing story. Dr. Reed has many national and state honors, and remarkably, she has never surrendered to hate. “I love Mississippi. I love the land and our people.”
An Obscure Doctor's Journal
This book ranges from Dr. Tom Graves's childhood in Biloxi, MS to his days at Tulane University as an undergraduate and medical school student, to his years in the U.S. Army as a doctor during the Vietnam War.
Ultimately Dr. Tom Graves returned to a life of practicing break-through medicine in the Deep South.
Cajun comedies and tales of flying in hurricanes, dog fights and secret excursions into a civil war torn battlefield are to follow.
Read of strange ailments and fascinating people as well as life-and-death surgeries.
There is even a horse story (with a medical twist).
Ultimately Dr. Tom Graves returned to a life of practicing break-through medicine in the Deep South.
Cajun comedies and tales of flying in hurricanes, dog fights and secret excursions into a civil war torn battlefield are to follow.
Read of strange ailments and fascinating people as well as life-and-death surgeries.
There is even a horse story (with a medical twist).
A Courageous Cause
What is the real story of Republicanism in Mississippi?
How did it emerge during the 1950s and '60s?
Why was it successful?
No one can answer these questions better than the man who led the modern Republican revolutions not only in Mississippi, but also throughout the South.
That man is Wirt A. Yerger Jr., a fifth-generation Mississippian.
"Wirt Yerger has done more ... to further the cause of two-party government in the South than has any other man," said the 1964 Republican presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater, adding, "This is in itself a magnificent contribution ... and for this he should be thanked by all people in the South."
The Courageous Cause tells the true mid-20th Century story a group of men and women who successfully broke the old-line state Democrats' racist vice grip on Mississippi while also helping to defeat an entrenched, national wing of Establishment Republicans led by liberals such as Nelson Rockefeller
Many movement were afield during the era, including the spread of communism and the threat of nuclear disaster.
An heroic civil rights movement was asserting itself.
And Yerger's band of new conservatives—with their then-unique passion for a two-party system of representation—became a major lever for positive change in Mississippi.
At the age of 26, just out of the military, Yerger was named the first chairman of the modern Mississippi Republican Party in 1956. Over the next ten years, he orchestrated the fall of the old-line Democrat regime that had exclusively ruled Mississippi since the Civil War.
At the height of his power, Yerger was viewed by Time magazine as the primary
voice of a new, principled conservatism in the South. Unlike his back-room Democrat counterparts, Yerger organized his
GOP party membership at the grass-roots, county level, creating a state party apparatus built upon lasting principles of real
conservatism such as small government, free enterprise, strong defense, and the rights of individuals to exercise political
choice.
Often mocked in the local, state and national media, Yerger’s true conservatives
set out on a journey in the middle of the 20th century that would help define
the political lines of today. Yerger’s passionate,
principled conservatism helped create the political conditions in which true political discourse was achieved.
How did it emerge during the 1950s and '60s?
Why was it successful?
No one can answer these questions better than the man who led the modern Republican revolutions not only in Mississippi, but also throughout the South.
That man is Wirt A. Yerger Jr., a fifth-generation Mississippian.
"Wirt Yerger has done more ... to further the cause of two-party government in the South than has any other man," said the 1964 Republican presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater, adding, "This is in itself a magnificent contribution ... and for this he should be thanked by all people in the South."
The Courageous Cause tells the true mid-20th Century story a group of men and women who successfully broke the old-line state Democrats' racist vice grip on Mississippi while also helping to defeat an entrenched, national wing of Establishment Republicans led by liberals such as Nelson Rockefeller
Many movement were afield during the era, including the spread of communism and the threat of nuclear disaster.
An heroic civil rights movement was asserting itself.
And Yerger's band of new conservatives—with their then-unique passion for a two-party system of representation—became a major lever for positive change in Mississippi.
At the age of 26, just out of the military, Yerger was named the first chairman of the modern Mississippi Republican Party in 1956. Over the next ten years, he orchestrated the fall of the old-line Democrat regime that had exclusively ruled Mississippi since the Civil War.
At the height of his power, Yerger was viewed by Time magazine as the primary
voice of a new, principled conservatism in the South. Unlike his back-room Democrat counterparts, Yerger organized his
GOP party membership at the grass-roots, county level, creating a state party apparatus built upon lasting principles of real
conservatism such as small government, free enterprise, strong defense, and the rights of individuals to exercise political
choice.
Often mocked in the local, state and national media, Yerger’s true conservatives
set out on a journey in the middle of the 20th century that would help define
the political lines of today. Yerger’s passionate,
principled conservatism helped create the political conditions in which true political discourse was achieved.
Amidst the Fray: My life in politics, culture, and Mississippi
William D. Mounger's story may cause some to wonder--could this really be true?
Mounger's tale offers exclusive peeks into the grass-roots business, political, and cultural development of Mississippi and beyond. Using the lens of his life, Mounger offers historical and political stories that will entertain and enlighten.
He was a high-school brawler and football star; a West Point graduate, B-50 pilot, and atom bomb commander; an oil-rig scrubber oin Louisiana swamps turned oil tycoon and entrepreneur.; a maker of United States congressmen and senators; a friend and promoter of ballet and other arts; a man of faith, many friends and--yes--select enemies.
Readers go behind the scenes of the NIxon staff that created Watergate, of Governor Bill Allain's and Congressman Jon Hinson imbroglios, and of Ronald Reagan's rise to power. Readers will learn how Mounger helped guide a young Thad Cochran to office, and how the state GOP usurped the Democratic stronghold in the State of Mississippi.
Special attention is given to the deviant 1976 GOP national convention that thrust Mounger and Reagan into the national spotlight.
Mounger's tale offers exclusive peeks into the grass-roots business, political, and cultural development of Mississippi and beyond. Using the lens of his life, Mounger offers historical and political stories that will entertain and enlighten.
He was a high-school brawler and football star; a West Point graduate, B-50 pilot, and atom bomb commander; an oil-rig scrubber oin Louisiana swamps turned oil tycoon and entrepreneur.; a maker of United States congressmen and senators; a friend and promoter of ballet and other arts; a man of faith, many friends and--yes--select enemies.
Readers go behind the scenes of the NIxon staff that created Watergate, of Governor Bill Allain's and Congressman Jon Hinson imbroglios, and of Ronald Reagan's rise to power. Readers will learn how Mounger helped guide a young Thad Cochran to office, and how the state GOP usurped the Democratic stronghold in the State of Mississippi.
Special attention is given to the deviant 1976 GOP national convention that thrust Mounger and Reagan into the national spotlight.
The Unforgettable Jim Fuhrr
Over his lifetime, scores of stories accumulated around Jim Furrh. He was prone to stray into the most uncanny and hilarious mishaps, to botch and bungle seemingly ordinary endeavors, and to pull pranks on others as well as be pranked himself.
Now, his closest friends and associates, along with his family, have collaborated on a book of the most famous stories about Jim. Some stories, Jim intentionally propagated with dubious origins, such as insisting for more than a decade that Elvis was a close friend of Wirt Yerger’s, or scaring numerous women with his famous “fake legs trick.”
Other stories represent Jim’s innate ability to bumble into outlandish situations, such as locking himself out of a motel room naked, getting lost or losing things in the most absurd fashions, and breaking into a house with his wife and baby, then hiding in the closet when the owners arrived, only to be caught and make a mad dash for it!
Then there the countless episodes when Jim’s staggering frugality backfired on him, his astounding propensity to be suckered by into a friend’s prank, and his inestimable chance encounters with the rich and famous he so loved.
The Unforgettable Jim Furrh contains 46 highly readable vignettes that have generated the most laughter and joy among his many friends. Enjoy!
Now, his closest friends and associates, along with his family, have collaborated on a book of the most famous stories about Jim. Some stories, Jim intentionally propagated with dubious origins, such as insisting for more than a decade that Elvis was a close friend of Wirt Yerger’s, or scaring numerous women with his famous “fake legs trick.”
Other stories represent Jim’s innate ability to bumble into outlandish situations, such as locking himself out of a motel room naked, getting lost or losing things in the most absurd fashions, and breaking into a house with his wife and baby, then hiding in the closet when the owners arrived, only to be caught and make a mad dash for it!
Then there the countless episodes when Jim’s staggering frugality backfired on him, his astounding propensity to be suckered by into a friend’s prank, and his inestimable chance encounters with the rich and famous he so loved.
The Unforgettable Jim Furrh contains 46 highly readable vignettes that have generated the most laughter and joy among his many friends. Enjoy!
MaeMae's Grandmother Book
The founder and publisher of Mississippi Christian Magazine, Marilyn Tinnin leaves wisdom and advice for her 13 grandchildren on key issues of faith, culture, and politics.
Around the World in 120 Days
When Sam Berry embarked on his Semester at Sea, writing a book on the journey wasn't even in his mind. When he returned home, however, he struggled to summarize the experiences of his four-month voyage, a frustration shared by many of his friend and fellow voyagers. He decided to publish this book to better explain what it means to sail around the world.
Standing Up
Sixteen-year-old Lauren Hill weaves plots that are moral puzzles. Each has twists, turns, and satisfying endings.
Teen readers will naturally “get” her stories. Parents will
better understand the challenges youth face today.
Don’t be fooled because of the author’s age! These stories are highly enjoyable, believable, and satisfying!
Standing Up and Four More Short Stories includes:
• Standing Up
• It’s All about Faith
• Every Step of the Way
• “Thank You”
• From a Distance
Teen readers will naturally “get” her stories. Parents will
better understand the challenges youth face today.
Don’t be fooled because of the author’s age! These stories are highly enjoyable, believable, and satisfying!
Standing Up and Four More Short Stories includes:
• Standing Up
• It’s All about Faith
• Every Step of the Way
• “Thank You”
• From a Distance
Coca-Cola Collectibles
The owner of a major Coca-Cola Bottling franchise, Sandy Williams served on the board of governors of the Coca-Cola Bottlers Association for thirty-four years, two as president.
In 2013 he was named one of three Living Legends of the Coca-Cola system.
In this book, he shares entertaining stories from his life in the Coca-Cola business.
In 2013 he was named one of three Living Legends of the Coca-Cola system.
In this book, he shares entertaining stories from his life in the Coca-Cola business.
Setting Parents Free
Your failures in parenting won't harm your children; they may even help them!
Parents live pressured to parent perfectly, or else! The message we get is, "You'd better do everything right or you're going to screw up your kids!"
Parents need to be let off the hook. We need to make parenting fun again!
In Setting Parents Free, clinical psychologist John Cox guides parents in how to teach their kids about love, strength, values, and struggle--as well as how to get their children to do what they say!
Parents live pressured to parent perfectly, or else! The message we get is, "You'd better do everything right or you're going to screw up your kids!"
Parents need to be let off the hook. We need to make parenting fun again!
In Setting Parents Free, clinical psychologist John Cox guides parents in how to teach their kids about love, strength, values, and struggle--as well as how to get their children to do what they say!
The Rejected
This novel retells the story of Jesus Christ and his disciple in a powerful, accessible way.
The Story of Gulf States Canners
As canned soft drinks hit the national market in the 1960s, Gulf States Canners broke new ground for Coca-Cola bottlers who needed their own canning factories. This is Gulf States's story.
The Unexpected Journeys of Mr. McIntosh: Spiritual Jewels
from a Passionate Christian
in Mississippi
Maccie Melroy McIntosh, “Mac” was a quiet and humble man who was outgoing. He got along with just about everyone.
He was born in Smith County, Mississippi, to Lee Roy and Hattie McIntosh. He was the oldest of eight children.
Years later, when Mac worked as a Boat Foreman on one of many nuclear submarines at Ingalls Shipbuilding, President George H. W. Bush came to Ingalls Shipyard and Mac was chosen to be his tour guide. President Bush presented Mac with a presidential tie bar before he left as a big thank you.
Mac had a good working career and also found plenty of time to devote to his God, church and fellow man. He never missed an opportunity to witness and teach God’s word.
Each of his spiritual experiences in this book are true-life ones, which he felt needed to be shared as a witness to God’s direct effect in our own lives trusting and obeying his urging and conviction in our hearts.
He was born in Smith County, Mississippi, to Lee Roy and Hattie McIntosh. He was the oldest of eight children.
Years later, when Mac worked as a Boat Foreman on one of many nuclear submarines at Ingalls Shipbuilding, President George H. W. Bush came to Ingalls Shipyard and Mac was chosen to be his tour guide. President Bush presented Mac with a presidential tie bar before he left as a big thank you.
Mac had a good working career and also found plenty of time to devote to his God, church and fellow man. He never missed an opportunity to witness and teach God’s word.
Each of his spiritual experiences in this book are true-life ones, which he felt needed to be shared as a witness to God’s direct effect in our own lives trusting and obeying his urging and conviction in our hearts.
Confessions that Change Your Life: The Life-Changing Power of a Believer's Creed
When we dig into biblical truth and speak it forth, Jesus pours out love and blessings.
Creeds help us do this.
Ancient Christians used them with staggering results.
It's time to recover the power of saying creeds.
They flesh out who and what you believe, how you will live, and God’s promises to you.
They activate your faith.
Possess and confess creeds! Write your own. Experience
others.
Here’s your chance to tap into Bishop Crudup’s own
Believer’s Creed, confessed by thousands internationally.
Let’s once again become creedal Christians!
Creeds help us do this.
Ancient Christians used them with staggering results.
It's time to recover the power of saying creeds.
They flesh out who and what you believe, how you will live, and God’s promises to you.
They activate your faith.
Possess and confess creeds! Write your own. Experience
others.
Here’s your chance to tap into Bishop Crudup’s own
Believer’s Creed, confessed by thousands internationally.
Let’s once again become creedal Christians!
12 Steps to Divine Victory
Prophetess Gwendolyn Richardson is an ordained minister of the Gospel
with a prophetic anointing that has taken her to churches, conferences, and crusades around the world preaching God’s Word.
She and her husband, Bishop Charles Richardson, are the founders of Nu Vision Worship Center International in Jackson, MS.
Prophetess Richardson has a bachelor of science degree in theology from New Foundation Theological Seminary in Terry, MS.
She also graduated from Kingdom University in Atlanta, GA, under the leadership of Dr. Cindy Trimm, a preacher and internationally respected empowerment specialist with a Christ-centered message.
A native of Jackson, Prophetess is a wife, mother, and grandmother.
with a prophetic anointing that has taken her to churches, conferences, and crusades around the world preaching God’s Word.
She and her husband, Bishop Charles Richardson, are the founders of Nu Vision Worship Center International in Jackson, MS.
Prophetess Richardson has a bachelor of science degree in theology from New Foundation Theological Seminary in Terry, MS.
She also graduated from Kingdom University in Atlanta, GA, under the leadership of Dr. Cindy Trimm, a preacher and internationally respected empowerment specialist with a Christ-centered message.
A native of Jackson, Prophetess is a wife, mother, and grandmother.
Twister
John W. Johnston graduated from The University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor of science in communications.
A Korean War veteran, he served as an Infantry Platoon Leader in the 25th Infantry Division and later as a Public Information Officer (Chief of Radio, Television, and News) at Headquarters of American Forces Far East/8th Army.
Johnston is a retired business executive and teaches a Bible-study class at Raymond Road Baptist Church in Jackson, MS.
He is the father of four, grandfather of nine, and a great grandfather of five.
He loves telling children stories about his childhood days in Mobile, AL, as well as during summer visits to his aunt’s Perry County, MS. farm.
Many of his cousins would come to the farm and help with farm chores. When it was time to go home for school, many fond memories went with them.
A Korean War veteran, he served as an Infantry Platoon Leader in the 25th Infantry Division and later as a Public Information Officer (Chief of Radio, Television, and News) at Headquarters of American Forces Far East/8th Army.
Johnston is a retired business executive and teaches a Bible-study class at Raymond Road Baptist Church in Jackson, MS.
He is the father of four, grandfather of nine, and a great grandfather of five.
He loves telling children stories about his childhood days in Mobile, AL, as well as during summer visits to his aunt’s Perry County, MS. farm.
Many of his cousins would come to the farm and help with farm chores. When it was time to go home for school, many fond memories went with them.
Milly Mills Reporting Live
Allie Ware is a television journalist in Jackson, Mississippi. She’s been working in broadcast journalism since 2011.
Allie holds several Associated Press awards, and her work has been featured on national networks.
In her book, Milly Mills, Allie tells the story of girl who made her own broadcasting set, was inspired to shoot for the stars, and ultimately became a professional journalist.
Allie holds several Associated Press awards, and her work has been featured on national networks.
In her book, Milly Mills, Allie tells the story of girl who made her own broadcasting set, was inspired to shoot for the stars, and ultimately became a professional journalist.
Be a Dream Chaser
Kay McDaniel played professional tennis at many of the major venues from Wimbledon to the U.S. Open.
As a child, her natural athletic ability and outright determination to make
it to the pros spurred her devotion to practice and do whatever was necessary to reach her dream, thus the book’s title of Be a Dream Chaser.
For decades now she has taught a popular summer camp of young tennis players, regaling them with her stories from her start as a youth player to her playing against many of the tennis greats including the ground-breaking phenom, Billie Jean King.
Throughout her career her faith in God and reliance on him was the key ingredient in keeping her focused as a player and a person. Be a Dream Chaser tells her story in a way both children and adults can enjoy.
As a child, her natural athletic ability and outright determination to make
it to the pros spurred her devotion to practice and do whatever was necessary to reach her dream, thus the book’s title of Be a Dream Chaser.
For decades now she has taught a popular summer camp of young tennis players, regaling them with her stories from her start as a youth player to her playing against many of the tennis greats including the ground-breaking phenom, Billie Jean King.
Throughout her career her faith in God and reliance on him was the key ingredient in keeping her focused as a player and a person. Be a Dream Chaser tells her story in a way both children and adults can enjoy.
Lambs Among Wolves
Author and businessman Bob Briner profiles numerous successful Christian leaders from different backgrounds and vocational callings.
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