War in Dixie: Alabama v. Auburn  by Ivan Maisel and Kelly Whiteside.  New York: HarperCollins, 2001, 240 pp. 

With Kelly Whiteside covering Auburn and Ivan Maisel Alabama, each journalist  slips behind the scenes to report what transpired at each university, day-by-day, during Iron Bowl Week 2000.  As the dust jacket states, the book “reveals the passions and pressures that have made the Auburn Tigers—Alabama Crimson rivalry the most feverish in the nation.”  Brief appendices offer concise factual information about the rivalry.