A lyrical and evocative description of the American South in the tradition of Clarence John Laughlin and Ralph Eugene Meatyard, from an exhibition of the same name at the High Museum in Atlanta opening in 1989. "For most people of McWilliams's age, education, and sensibility, the New South was nothing but a chain of used-car lots built on the edge of strip mines. McWilliams saw it all as an enigmatic prophecy from which a new human aesthetic would emerge."--Michael Lesy.