Books in the Country

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  • The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines brings you conversations with authors. The guests range from local to world-wide best selling authors.
    2021
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  • Sean Zak "Searching in St. Andrews: Finding the Meaning of Golf During the Game's Most Turbulent Summer"

    Sean Zak "Searching in St. Andrews: Finding the Meaning of Golf During the Game's Most Turbulent Summer"
    Jun 10 2024
    When Sean Zak arrived in St. Andrews, Scotland—the mecca of golf—he was determined to spend his summer in search of the game's true essence. He found it everywhere—in the dirt, firm and proper, a sandy soil that you don't see in America. He found it in the people who inherited the game from their grandparents, who inherited it from their grandparents. He found it in the structures that prop up the game—cheap memberships and “private courses” that aren’t private at all. At every turn he also found LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed entity which descended on the professional circuit during that summer of the 150th Open Championship. Zak's personal personal pilgrimage now offered him a front-row seat at a cultural reckoning, one which pitted the game's longstanding customs against a divisive new force. Searching in St. Andrews is the vivid chronicle of an unforgettable sojourn in the birthplace of golf, informed by sublime mornings on the Old Course playing with just four clubs, evenings spent analyzing legal documents riddled with greed, and the singular characters he encountered along the way. Readers will meet a 92-year-old who just learned how to putt, explore the many differences between Golf Over There and Golf Over Here, and even experience caddying on the PGA Tour, from deciphering the yardage books to keeping your player on time to drinking until sunrise after you’ve missed the cut. Written with heartfelt curiosity and charm, this is an essential portrait of golf amid the crosswinds of tradition, progress, and power. https://www.thecountrybookshop.biz/book/9781637273326
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    1 h y 9 m
  • Ward Clayton "The Legendary Caddies of Augusta National: Inside Stories from Golf's Greatest Stage"

    Ward Clayton "The Legendary Caddies of Augusta National: Inside Stories from Golf's Greatest Stage"
    Jun 10 2024
    Starting in the 1930s, the Black caddies of Augusta National walked the course with the world’s greatest golfers. Clayton's book tells their stories, forever entwined with the history of the game. They used nicknames like Stovepipe, Burnt Biscuits, Skillet, Skinny, and Marble Eye. They worked for presidents of the United States, captains of industry, and the greatest golfers in the world. Their real names were Carl Jackson, Willie Perteet, and Matthew Palmer—and they witnessed every great moment, both private and public, at Augusta National beginning in the1930s—from Gene Sarazen's "shot heard 'round the world" to Jack Nicklaus winning a record five of his six Masters. Read why Nicklaus said he wouldn’t trade caddie Willie “Pete” Peterson “for a million dollars” and what Willie “Cemetery” Perteet really thought of President Eisenhower’s golf game. The Black caddies of Augusta National also endured, in their own ways, the racist social order of the sport and at the same time participated, albeit vicariously, in its many thrills. Ward Clayton documents their stories—history as compelling as the game of golf itself. Ward Clayton has been in and around the game of golf since growing up blocks from Hillandale Golf Course, a public facility in Durham, North Carolina. He continued to pursue the game as a competitive amateur and newspaper writer. He was the sports editor of the Augusta Chronicle from 1991 to 2000 and was responsible for what Golf World magazine called "the best coverage of a golf tournament of any newspaper in the world." Ward has been the Director of Editorial Services for the PGA Tour, and his work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, The First Call, and elsewhere. He lives, writes, and plays golf in the Jacksonville, Florida, area. https://www.thecountrybookshop.biz/book/9781958888179
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  • David Wright Faladé on "Black Cloud Rising"

    David Wright Faladé on "Black Cloud Rising"
    Aug 17 2023
    The Country Bookshop welcomes David Wright Faladé to talk about his book "Black Cloud Rising." "Black Cloud Rising" is a historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom.
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    1 h
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