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ISBN10: 0807130974, ISBN13: 9780807130971, [publisher: LSU Press] Softcover Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 0.7 [Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 0807130974, ISBN13: 9780807130971, [publisher: LSU Press] Softcover Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.7 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 0807130974, ISBN13: 9780807130971, [publisher: LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR] Softcover Über den AutorFred Hobson is the author of numerous books in American and southern studies, including Tell About the South: The Southern Rage to Explain and Mencken: A Life. His essays have appeared in many magazines and journals. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2005]
Louisiana State University Press, Date: 2005. Paperback. New. 217 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. 2005. Louisiana State University Press ISBN 0807130974 9780807130971 [GB]
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ISBN10: 0807130974, ISBN13: 9780807130971, [publisher: LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR] Softcover Über den AutorFred Hobson is the author of numerous books in American and southern studies, including Tell About the South: The Southern Rage to Explain and Mencken: A Life. His essays have appeared in many magazines and journals. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 0807130974, ISBN13: 9780807130971, [publisher: LSU Press Nov 2005] Softcover Neuware - Perhaps the preeminent contemporary scholar of southern culture, Fred Hobson is adept at cutting through the many myths and self-illusions spun about the South and exposing a far more intriguing reality. In his inaugural collection of essays, Hobson offers both an astute and deeply personal take on American and southern life. He touches on history, literature, religion, family, race, and sports as he ponders various famous and obscure biographical and autobiographical figures. Hobson's own great-grandmother inspires the title essay, in which he investigates the whispered family rumor that Emily Mullen Gregory committed suicide by jumping down a well in the late nineteenth century. A happier female relative animates another absorbing chapter: Hobson's great aunt who left the benighted South with the intent of bringing enlightenment to China as a missionary and teacher and who became both friend and critic of Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Ruminative appraisals of H. L. Mencken, W. J. Cash, progressive journalist Gerald W. Johnson, social critic James McBride Dabbs, man of letters Louis D. Rubin, Jr., African American author Mary Mebane, and novelist Richard Ford add incrementally to the collection's overall intellectual pleasures. Hobson's concluding pieces take a more intimate turn as he reflects on his native North Carolina and the love of college basketball he ...
ISBN10: 0807130974, ISBN13: 9780807130971, [publisher: LSU Press Nov 2005] Softcover Neuware - Perhaps the preeminent contemporary scholar of southern culture, Fred Hobson is adept at cutting through the many myths and self-illusions spun about the South and exposing a far more intriguing reality. In his inaugural collection of essays, Hobson offers both an astute and deeply personal take on American and southern life. He touches on history, literature, religion, family, race, and sports as he ponders various famous and obscure biographical and autobiographical figures. Hobson's own great-grandmother inspires the title essay, in which he investigates the whispered family rumor that Emily Mullen Gregory committed suicide by jumping down a well in the late nineteenth century. A happier female relative animates another absorbing chapter: Hobson's great aunt who left the benighted South with the intent of bringing enlightenment to China as a missionary and teacher and who became both friend and critic of Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Ruminative appraisals of H. L. Mencken, W. J. Cash, progressive journalist Gerald W. Johnson, social critic James McBride Dabbs, man of letters Louis D. Rubin, Jr., African American author Mary Mebane, and novelist Richard Ford add incrementally to the collection's overall intellectual pleasures. Hobson's concluding pieces take a more intimate turn as he reflects on his native North Carolina and the love of college basketball he ...
ISBN10: 0807130974, ISBN13: 9780807130971, [publisher: LSU Press] Softcover Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized. [Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
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