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Red Hills And Cotton eBook

An Upcountry Memory

by Ben Robertson
language: english
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS, March of 2021 ‧
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Red Hills and Cotton is suffused with Ben Robertson's deep affection for his native Upcountry South Carolina. An internationally known and respected journalist, Robertson had a knack for finding the interesting and exotic in seemingly humble or ordinary folk and a keen eye for human interest stories. His power of description and disarmingly straightforward narrative were the hallmarks of his writing.

A loyal Southern son, Robertson cherished what he judged to be the South's best traditions: personal independence and responsibility, the rejection of crass materialism, a deep piety, and a love of freedom. He repeatedly lamented the region's many shortcomings: poverty, racial hierarchy, political impotence, lack of inttellectual curiosity, and its tendency to blame all of its twentieth-century problems on the defeat of the Confederacy.

An informative and entertaining new introduction by Lacy K. Ford, Jr., associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina, provides fascinating new facts about Robertson's life and recasts his achievements in Red Hills and Cotton as social commentary. Ford captures the essence of Robertson's restless and questioning, but unfailingly Southern, spirit.

Red Hills And Cotton

An Upcountry Memory

by Ben Robertson

Property Description
ISBN: 9781643362311
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS
Release Date: March of 2021
Language: English
Pages: 344
Format: eBook
File Format and Compatibility:
Collection: Southern Classics
Categories: eBooks in English > History > History of America
eBooks in English > Fiction > Biographies
eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > North America
EAN: 9781643362311
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