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&#...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ritterhouse, Jennifer Lynn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Daniels, Jonathan, > 1902-1981.
Daniels, Jonathan, > 1902-1981 > Travel.
Travel.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Redacteurs en chef > Voyages.
Newspaper editors > Travel.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 1865-1951.
Southern States > History > 1865-1951.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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, and he set out to find it--ultimately interviewing even Mitchell herself. In this book, historian Jennifer Ritterhouse pieces together Daniels's unpublished notes from his tour along with his published writings and a wealth of archival evidence to put this ... observer's journey through a South in transition into a larger context"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (384 pages).
ISBN:9781469630960
Acceso:Open Access

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