The occasional essay was characterised by its personal and conversational style. It dealt usually with things of contemporary interest but with an insight and humane attention superior to ordinary discussion. It wore its considerable learning lightly and sometimes revealed a little gentle humour.

John Devanny's work is in the great tradition of Southern essayists like Poe, Simms, Weaver, Davidson, O'Connor, and Percy.

Excerpts:
"This modest collection is designed to express the mentalitie' of a Southern conservative who holds to the old verities of faith and family, place, tradition, and custom. And who views history, and politics, and culture through the lens of not just changes, but important continuities."

" . . . we know our good Yankee progressive cannot stop at the borders of his home state; He wants to bring the City on the Hill to you, whether you want it or not. "
"The monuments erected in honour of specific political and military leaders of the Confederacy and of its ordinary soldiers and citizens, are meant to call to mind the fortitude, forbearance, patience in suffering, and self-sacrifice practiced by these men and women. . . . Indeed, this should be the working assumption of any civilized individual who comes upon the monuments of the other side. Only barbarians desecrate."

'' . . . once the impious destroys the ties to tradition and piety, so too are the virtues that are allow for civilisation to be sundered. . . . One can reject the patrimony, but once the house is pulled down and the Jacobin has sown the wind, what then shall he reap?"
"Let us I advocate instead for the best in the Southern tradition and rebuild it each day and in every moment of our lives. Let us avoid (and forgive) the sins of our fathers, but more so let us imitate their virtues and always defend their honour."

Essays:

Musings on Dislocation
Fall Planting
M.R. Ducks
Football and the South
How 'bout a Little Bourbon with Your Philosophy?
Gentleman Bob and the Decline of the South
Guns, Yankees, and Such
Pietas in the Era of Revolution
Through a Glass Darkly: Justice Kavanaugh and the Triumph of Symbol over Reality
The Blundering Generations and the Crises of Legitimacy
Contested Ground: Southern Identity and the Southern Tradition
The Sins of Harper Lee
All Slavery, All the Time
A Society with Slaves
John Randolph and the Formation of an American Conservative Persuasion
Poison Under the Wings: The Constitution and Its Defects
Zombies No More: Secession, Nullification, and the Academy
What We Have to Expect
Rhetoric, Reality, and the Late Unpleasantness
Southern Populism and the South's Agrarian Identity
Where the Grapes of Wrath are Stored: The Reconstruction of Southern Religion
The Late Unpleasantness: Memory, Meaning and Understanding

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