Books By Stetson Kennedy

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Stetson Kennedy's first book, Palmetto Country, appeared in 1942 as a volume in the American Folkways Series edited by Erskine Caldwell. Of it, folklorist Alan Lomax has said,

"I very much doubt that a better book about Florida folklife will ever be written."

To which Stetson's self-described "stud buddy" Woody Guthrie added,

"gives me a better trip and taste and look and feel for Florida than I got in the forty-seven states I've actually been in body and tramped in boot.".

In addition, Stetson Kennedy wrote books on racism including: Southern Exposure (1946), I Rode With the Klu Klux Klan (1954) - which was later renamed to The Klan Unmasked - and Jim Crow Guide to the U.S.A. (1959). Kennedy co-wrote the book South Florida Folkife (1994) with Tina Bucuvalas and Peggy A. Bugler. Kennedy's contributions deal primarily with Key West.

Kennedy's latest book, After Appomattox: How the South Won the War (1995), explains how the old south converted military defeat into political and social victory in the U.S.A.

Kennedy was also featured in the chapter titled, ''Whistle Blowers'' of the book Coming of Age (1995) by Studs Terkel.