Defiance: Signed Edition — Douglas Stuart McDaniel | Premium Pulp Fiction

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Personally signed and addressed by the author. Printed and shipped directly to you.

When you order a signed edition from Premium Pulp Fiction, Doug McDaniel handwrites your dedication, signs it, and it is printed as the very first page of your book before it ships directly to you. The ISBN barcode on the back is replaced with a not-for-resale code. This copy was made for you. It cannot be purchased anywhere else. It cannot be resold.

About the book:

Set in Reconstruction-era Savannah, Defiance: A Reckoning with the Dream follows Reverend James Simms — a freedman and educator who mounts a campaign to become one of Georgia's first Black state legislators. The novel traces the legal, religious, and civic systems mobilized to block Black political power in the postwar South, focusing on how resistance was structured, justified, and quietly normalized.

Similar to the work of Colson Whitehead and Edward P. Jones, the book resists heroic simplification in favor of institutional clarity, foregrounding the lived consequences of law, theology, and procedure. It is a study of how democracy is constrained in practice — and how its failures are later misremembered.

At checkout: Tell us who to address this to. A name, a city, a line that means something. Doug will write it by hand.

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