- Published: 15 November 2007
- ISBN: 9780307275509
- Imprint: Knopf US
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 464
- RRP: $45.00
There Goes My Everything
White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975

















- Published: 15 November 2007
- ISBN: 9780307275509
- Imprint: Knopf US
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 464
- RRP: $45.00
"A fine new book . . . the first book-length study of this important topic. . . . Sokol piles on lively anecdotes, telling vignettes and arresting contemporary statements. . . . The cumulative, layered effect of these stories is powerful. . . . The major premise of this book is extraordinarily important. . . . [It] points the way to a fuller, more satisfying history of one of the most important dramas of 20th century America." --Chicago Tribune
"It's difficult not to approach Sokol's book with sheer astonishment that it has been written by one so young . . . but in truth, just about any scholar in the field would be happy to claim There Goes My Everything as his or her own work."--The Washington Post Book World
—The Atlantic Monthly
“[There Goes My Everything is] on my personal list of the year’s best books.”
—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
“A richly documented, often compellingly dramatic narrative, whose strength is its absence of polemic.”
—Dallas Morning News
"As eye-opening a look at race relations in the Civil Rights Era as anything this side of Dr. King's own Letter From a Birmingham Jail."
—Arkansas Democrat-Gazette