-There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975, was Jason's first book. It was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2006.
-Read the New York Times feature article.
-Listen to Jason on NPR's News & Notes.
-Listen to Jason on NPR's Weekend All Things Considered.
-Read Jason's recent article in Salon about the parallels between the aftermath of MLK's assassination and the Charleston killings.
-"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."
Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
-"It's 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
-"The major premise of this book is extraordinarily important. Sokol recognizes that the full dimensions of the civil rights movement can only be grasped if Southern whites...are incorporated into the master narrative. His book, therefore, points the way to a fuller, more satisfying history of one of the most important dramas of 20th Century America."
James Ralph, Chicago Tribune
-"A young historian provides a fascinating and remarkably empathetic assessment of how white southerners experienced the civil-rights movement."
The Atlantic
-"An ambitious attempt to describe the attitudinal changes that the civil rights revolution engendered in white southerners...He has many interesting and insightful things to say."
Nicholas Lemann, The New Republic
-There Goes My Everything received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award.
-Read the New York Times feature article.
-Listen to Jason on NPR's News & Notes.
-Listen to Jason on NPR's Weekend All Things Considered.
-Read Jason's recent article in Salon about the parallels between the aftermath of MLK's assassination and the Charleston killings.
-"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."
Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
-"It's 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
-"The major premise of this book is extraordinarily important. Sokol recognizes that the full dimensions of the civil rights movement can only be grasped if Southern whites...are incorporated into the master narrative. His book, therefore, points the way to a fuller, more satisfying history of one of the most important dramas of 20th Century America."
James Ralph, Chicago Tribune
-"A young historian provides a fascinating and remarkably empathetic assessment of how white southerners experienced the civil-rights movement."
The Atlantic
-"An ambitious attempt to describe the attitudinal changes that the civil rights revolution engendered in white southerners...He has many interesting and insightful things to say."
Nicholas Lemann, The New Republic
-There Goes My Everything received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award.