John F. Blair, Publisher

Jim Hunt was an N.C. farm boy with no money and no political family behind him. Fifty years later, he had become the state’s longest-serving governor. Gary Pearce tells his story in Jim Hunt: A Biography (John F. Blair, November 2010).

Kathleen Koch, former CNN correspondent and author of Rising from Katrina calls on Obama to recognize the devastation Hurricane Katrina inflicted on Mississippi by visiting it on August 29. She will speak at Politics & Prose in D.C. Aug. 25.