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Ted Ownby is the author of American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, & Culture, 1830-1998. He is also the author of Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation and Manhood in the rural South, 1865-1920. Ted Ownby is a professor at the University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss. In the introduction, Ted Ownby states that his book asks whether Mississippi fared well in four dreams: The Dream of Abundance, The Dream of a democracy of Goods, The Dream of freedom of choice, and The Dream of novelty. What exactly is the