I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century

by John Andrew Rice

Book Overview

John Andrew Rice's autobiography, first published to critical acclaim in 1942, is a remarkable tour through late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. When the book was suppressed by the publisher soon after its appearance because of legal threats by a college president described in the book, the nation lost a rich first-person historical account of race and class relations during a critical period--not only during the days of Rice's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611174368
• ISBN13: 9781611174366
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"