Sustaining Southern Identity: Douglas Southall Freeman and Memory in the Modern South

by Keith D. Dickson

Book Overview

Pulitzer Prize--winning historian Douglas Southall Freeman, perhaps more than any other writer in the first half of the twentieth century, helped shape and sustain a collective identity for white southerners. A journalist, lecturer, radio broadcaster, and teacher of renown, Freeman wrote and spoke on themes related to southern memory throughout his life. Keith D. Dickson's Sustaining Southern Identity offers a masterful intellectual biography of Freeman...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080714004X
• ISBN13: 9780807140048
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"