The Tennessee General Assembly has passed ten different literary works with “historic, social and cultural importance to the Volunteer State” as the first official state books.
In a release Brentwood Representative Gino Bulso said “the books have great literary merit and represent the culture and fabric of the Volunteer State.”
The ten official Tennessee books include
The 1782 “Aitken Bible”
Alex Haley’s “Roots”
Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors”
“Farewell Address to the American People” by George Washington
“The Papers of Andrew Jackson”
“A Death in the Family” by James Agee,
All the King’s Men” by Robert Warren,
“American Lion” by Jon Meacham,
The Civil War: A Narrative” by Shelby Foote and
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville.
