John Temple Graves - The Fighting South (Library Alabama Classics)
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Published originally in 1943 by G. P. Putnam's Sons
For permission to reprint, acknowledgment is made to the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Saturday Review of Literature, and The New York Times Magazine.
Introduction Copyright 1985 by The University of Alabama Press University, Alabama 35486
All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Graves, John Temple, 1892 The fighting South.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1943. Includes index. 1. Southern StatesCivilization. I. Title. F215.G76 1985 975 84-16320 ISBN 0-8173-0245-X ISBN 0-8173-0246-8 (pbk.)
Page v
To Rose, Tinka, and Nancy
Page vii
Contents
Introduction
by Fred Hobson
ix
One The Fighting South
3
Two Forever and Ever, Amen
19
Three Highlight and Low
39
Four Centripetal Force
49
Five "I Got Shoes"
65
Six Fever
70
Seven December Seventh
84
Eight Under the Oxygen Tent
104
Nine Of One Blood
119
Ten You Can Hear Their Voices
138
Eleven "For the Advancement of Colored People"
151
Twelve Forty Feeding Like One
162
Thirteen The Land Is Bright
177
Fourteen Far Light
193
Fifteen The Aristocratic Tradition
203
Sixteen Woman Is Pleasing
212
Seventeen Here We Rest!
226
Eighteen "And the Democratic Party"
238
Nineteen Lord God Almighty
251
Twenty Free For All
263
Index
278
Page ix
Introduction
Fred Hobson
In the 1930s and early 1940s, it seems, nearly every prominent Southern journalist was planning or writing a book about Dixie. North Carolinian Jonathan Daniels traveled around the Southern states, then wrote A Southerner Discovers the South (1938), a charming mixture of description and social commentary. That same year transplanted Tar Heel Gerald W. Johnson produced The Wasted Land, a less hopeful picture of the late Confederacy. Three years later Wilbur Cash of Charlotte came forth with his Southern classic, The Mind of the South, and the next year Virginius Dabney of Richmond wrote Below the Potomac, a portrait of the newest of New Souths by a certified Southern liberal. Lesser known journalists such as Clarence Cason of Alabama (in 90in the Shade) and Stetson Kennedy of Florida (in Southern Exposure) also contributed to the development of this new Southern literary genre. And in 1943 another Alabamian and notable journalist, John Temple Graves of Birmingham, finished his book about Dixie and called it
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