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title:Looking for Clark Gable and Other 20th-century Pursuits : Collected Writings
author:Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer.
publisher:University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin:0817308342
print isbn13:9780817308346
ebook isbn13:9780585299860
language:English
subjectSouthern States--Social life and customs--1865- , United States--Social life and customs--20th century, Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer, Journalists--Southern States--Biography, Women journalists--Southern States--Biography.
publication date:1996
lcc:F215.H2 1996eb
ddc:975/.04
subject:Southern States--Social life and customs--1865- , United States--Social life and customs--20th century, Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer, Journalists--Southern States--Biography, Women journalists--Southern States--Biography.
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Looking for Clark Gable and Other 20th-Century Pursuits
Page ii
By the Same Author
BIOGRAPHY
Hugo Black: The Alabama Years
Lister Hill: Statesman from the South
Hugo Black and the Bill of Rights (editor)
STATE HISTORY
Alabama: A Bicentennial History
Seeing Historic Alabama: Fifteen Guided Tours,
2nd Edition
(with Jacqueline A. Matte)
TEXTBOOKS
Your Alabama
The Story of Alabama
Page iii
Looking for Clark Gable and Other 20th-Century Pursuits
Collected Writings
Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton
With a foreword by Wayne Flynt

Page iv
Disclaimer:
Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.
Copyright 1996
The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Picture 2
The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer.
Looking for Clark Gable and other 20th-century pursuits:
collected writings / Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton, with a foreword
by Wayne Flynt.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0817308342 (alk. paper)
1. Southern States Social life and customs1865 2. United
StatesSocial life and customs20th century. 3. Hamilton,
Virginia Van der Veer. 4. JournalistsSouthern StatesBiography.
5. Women journalistsSouthern StatesBiography. I. Title.
F215.H2 1996
975'.04dc20 9544926
British Library
Cataloguing-in-Publication
Data available
Page v
For my wartime companions
Marguerite Johnston of the Birmingham News
Jane Culbreth, Lillian Kenner, and Mary Eleanor Bell of
the "Alabama Embassy"
Kay Stokey and Jane Albaugh of the Associated Press
and in memory of
Professor John Ramsey of The University of Alabama
Page vii
CONTENTS
Foreword
by Wayne Flynt
ix
Preface
xi
Part One: A Childhood in the Great Depression
1. Way of Life
3
2. Way of Travel
19
3. Campus Liberal
26
Part Two: Journalist
4. "Girl Reporter"
39
5. Covering the Homefront
56
6. Wartime Washington
85
7. Year of Transition: 1948
106
Part Three: Historian
8. Storming the Barricades
131
9. Researching Hugo Black
143
10. Selma: A Project Left Undone
151
11. Finding Richard Arrington's Roots
173
12. Writing for the "General Reader"
179
P.S.: Some Personal Notes
13. Leaving Home for Christmas
189
14. Mrs. Husband's Name
192
15. So You're Retiring? Congratulations!
195
16. As Old as You Drive
197
Index
201
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