Discovering the South One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s / Jennifer Ritterhouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ritterhouse, Jennifer, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Daniels, Jonathan, 1902-1981--Travel.

Newspaper editors--Travel.

Newspaper editors.

Southern States--History--1865-1951.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

2017.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

"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 In this book, historian Jennifer Ritterhouse pieces together Daniels's unpublished notes from his tour along with his published writings and a wealth of archival evidence to put this ...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" -- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890850874

9781469630953

1469630958

9781469630960

1469630966

OCLC:

972092116