Discovering the South : One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s /

"In the summer of 1937, Jonathan Daniels, the young, white, liberal-minded editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, took a ten-state driving tour to 'discover' his native land. He thought the true South lay somewhere between Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind,...

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Autor Principal: Ritterhouse, Jennifer Lynn (Author)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • We so-called free moderns : Raleigh, North Carolina
  • This division between faith in democracy and power descending from authority : from Raleigh to Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
  • The demand for justice will not be a cause furthered only by radicals : Scottsboro, Alabama
  • A quaint and quixotic group of gentlemen : Nashville, Tennessee
  • Tenants are able to hold their heads a little higher : Memphis, Tennessee
  • Naked and hot as if she were stripped in the sun : Marked Tree, Arkansas
  • The most interesting man I met : from Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Tuskegee, Alabama
  • As furious as the last horseman of a legion of the bitter-end : Birmingham, Alabama
  • A red-headed woman immaculate and immediate from the beauty parlor : Atlanta, Georgia
  • The newly exciting question of the possibility of democracy : from Atlanta to Raleigh, North Carolina.