This edition features contributions by Southern novelists and poets including Donald Davidson, Madison Smartt Bell, Fred Chappell, and Walker Percy; scholars M.E. Bradford, Ward Allen, Russell Kirk, J.O. Tate, Grady McWhiney, Tom Landess, Mark Royden Winchell, and Donald Livingston; and politicians and commentators including U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan and syndicated columnist William Murchison.