This book by Asch (PhD, American history, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) tells the intertwined stories of one-time sharecropper turned civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) and staunch segregationist Senator James O. Eastland (1904-1986), as set against the backdrop of social and economic change in Sunflower County, Mississippi, the birthplace of Hamer and the location of the Eastland cotton plantation. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)