In 1954, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched a bold initiative to combat poverty in America with the Economic Opportunity Act. This groundbreaking legislation introduced programs like Head Start, Job Corps, Urban/Rural Community Action, and VISTA, all aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty that persists across generations. With ample funding and innovative design, these programs made significant strides in reducing family poverty from 1964 to 1975, resulting in a 7% decline nationwide. Un...

The screenplay writer in Hollywood was a pen-for-hire. Whatever your status elsewhere in the world here, in Hollywood, you were usually a high-paid weekly contract where your talents, your genius, were at the beck and call of others who spoke of Art but were really mad but we're really the mouthpieces of Commerce.But radio for the Hollywood studio system was all about marketing. On that basis something approaching art could be produced on a regular basis. This series produced some ...

I Am the Sun is a poetry collection that shines a light on the development James Street’s moral code in a world of tests and temptations.

The Razor’s Edge is a collection of poems in which the author attempts to align and make sense of the many layers of reality. Many of the poems were inspired by shamanic journeys into alternate dimensions, and others were the products of daydreams. All the poetry in this book was born of the union between two forces: the world we perceive and the one that we choose to keep hidden.

Altered Ego is a poetic dive into the psyche of James Street. Through these poems, the author tries to better understand and accept his place in a flawed world. As his perception of reality becomes clearer, he grapples more with his sense of identity and belonging. These poems are the output of a man trying to answer evolution’s call to become his best self and, ultimately, transcend his ego entirely.

A Complete Tool is a collection of short stories, song lyrics, and poems, all written between the years 2016 and 2022. They detail the lessons he’s learned from his suffering, attachments to desires, and his impatience in his quest for knowledge and truth.

In this fifth and final novel of the Dabney family saga, the reader is introduced to the last of the gallant Dabney clan. Passionate and restless, Mingo Dabney falls in love with Rafaela Galban, a beautiful Cuban girl who was to her people what Joan of Arc had been to the French. But as Mingo rode his white horse from Lebanon on a frosty night in 1895 to follow Rafaela to Cuba, it was the woman herself he sought to win. Little did he dream that he would never see his home again, or that hi...

While Lee's Army of Northern Virginia dueled the Army of the Potomac, other Union and Confederate armies were struggling for control of Tennessee. Using eyewitness testimony, profiles of key personalities, period photographs, illustrations and artifacts, and detailed battle maps, author James Street has written an outstanding account of this lesser known chapter of Civil War history.The struggle for Tennessee was a war of maneuvers that began in April 1862 and ended on January 1863...

James Street was born and raised in the South and was one of its most passionate and eloquent voices. Through this collection of articles from Holiday and the Saturday Evening Post the people and the cities of the South come to life ― legends are explored, contradictions examined, historical milestones noted, personal anecdotes retold, and quips and quotes of a 1950's generation recorded. Flowing through his stories are the great rivers of the South, which although sometimes merry and some...

London Wingo, an ordained minister and a fourth-year student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is struggling to reconcile his desires for further education with his financial worries that accompany many young couples awaiting the birth of their first child. When he applies for a church in Linden, Missouri, and, accepted by the deacons there, he feels that he has found security for his family. He does not realize that in return for this security the people of Linden expect him to...

Lonnie, and his friend Text, spend their days in the streams and woods of Mississippi poking sticks in doodlebug holes, looking for crawdad castles, and catching sweet stinker bugs for good luck, All the while they keenly observe Lonnie's father, Harve McNeil, train his champion bird dogs. After all they are born to it ― boys and bird dogs grow up together. They're hunters. It's in their blood.When one of the champion dogs has a litter of seven yelping, squirming pups, their dream ...

Baptist preacher, London Wingo, first introduced in The Gauntlet, returns to Linden, Missouri after a twenty year absence to face what is to be the greatest crisis in his ministerial and parental career.London and his wife, Kathie, had built a church in Linden, Missouri where they faced the trials and triumphs of a first ministry. When Kathie died, however, London accepted a position in Kansas City, and departed abruptly with his his baby daughter. London left Linden as a young wid...