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Deep family : four centuries of American originals and Southern eccentrics / by Nicholas Cabell Read and Dallas Read ; with material drawn from thousands of notes and letters and documents collected during the lifetime of Jean Craik Read.
LIBRA CT275.R3215 A3 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Read, Nicholas Cabell, 1916-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Read, Nicholas Cabell, 1916-1998--Family.
- Read, Nicholas Cabell.
- Reed family.
- Craik family.
- Baldwin family.
- Read, Nicholas Cabell, 1916-1998.
- Families.
- Alabama--Biography.
- Alabama.
- Virginia.
- Virginia--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montgomery, AL : NewSouth Books, [2005]
- Contents:
- Introducing the Family 21
- 1 What's in a Name? 25
- 2 Dr. Craik and George Washington 30
- 3 The Growing Years 37
- 4 The War Within the War 47
- 5 The War Between the States 59
- 6 Reconstruction 65
- 7 Down But Not Out 72
- 8 Plantation Life and Death 81
- 9 The Romance of Jennie Baldwin and Will Craik 86
- 10 After the Wedding 92
- 11 The Four Little Girls 97
- 12 The Craiks and Kanawha 104
- 13 Hazel Hedge Is Not a Hedge 109
- 14 The Reverend Edgar Gardner Murphy 117
- 15 Growing Up and Away 124
- 16 Jean Falls in Love 130
- 17 Carrying On 137
- 18 The Tuppenny Tour 142
- 19 The Man from Corsicana 148
- 20 Sheila Becomes Cecile 155
- 21 The Paxton Hibbens 165
- 22 A Baby Is Born 173
- 23 The Birthday Parties, School and Ben 183
- 24 The Roaring Twenties 192
- 25 Kent, Church, Chickens and Communism 201
- 26 Jane Goes to Jail 213
- 27 The Depression 222
- 28 Jean and the Saffolds 230
- 29 Sheila and Jean 239
- 30 A Time To Weep 243
- 31 Not Harvard, but a State University 248
- 32 Setting High Marks 260
- 33 Job Hunting in the Depression 270
- 34 From the Underground Up in Filmmaking 277
- 35 Getting to Know the Midwest 285
- 36 Getting to Know Canada 291
- 37 No Spare Time 298
- 38 A Trip to Nassau 304
- 39 The War Comes Closer 308
- 40 Basic Training 316
- 41 The Film Unit 323
- 42 A Beginning and an End 333
- 43 Picking Up the Pieces 344
- 44 Trying to Get Overseas 358
- 45 An Epiphany Gift 368
- 46 On the Fighting Front-World War II 377
- 47 Filmmaking and Red Baiting in the South 389
- 48 New Directions 396
- 49 Combunist the Lion and Other Animals 405
- 50 Making Films 412
- 51 Howard University 423
- 52 Going Home Again 427
- 53 St. Peter Called 435.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1588381781
- OCLC:
- 58546683
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