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Bezig met laden... Stars Fell on Alabama (1934)door Carl Carmer
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 3559. Stars Fell on Alabama, by Carl Carmer (read 17 Mar 2002) Reading this was first suggested to me when I read the aforementioned Fifty Years of Best Sellers on 22 May 1946 but I never did till it was discussed on a book board I follow, and since I had access to it from a local college library, I decided to finally read it. It was a 1934 nonfiction bestseller, and is an account of the six years the author spent in Jim Crow Alabama in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The author does not approve of the then prevalent white Alabamian view but reports it in a non-condemnatory way. The book is full of non-interesting things (e.g., much discussion of Ala. superstitions) to one not connected to Alabama. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Stars Fell on Alabama is truly a classic. The book enjoyed enormous popularity and notoriety when it was first published (it was a selection of The Literary Guild and also sold widely in Europe). It can be described as a book of folkways--not journalism, or history, or a novel. At times it is impressionistic; at other times it conveys deep insights into the character of Alabama. Carmer visited every region of the state, always accompanied by someone intimately familiar with the locality. The mosaic that emerges from the pages of his book portrays Alabama's human landscape in all its variety, and it is a work essential to an understanding of Alabama and its culture. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Wayne Flynt's introduction is excellent, by the way. No surprise there, of course. Definitely read it before diving into this book. ( )