Sustaining Southern Identity

Sustaining Southern Identity
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 9780807140048
ISBN-13 : 080714004X
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Book Synopsis Sustaining Southern Identity by : Keith D. Dickson

Download or read book Sustaining Southern Identity written by Keith D. Dickson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 as well as a comprehensive analysis of how twentieth-century southerners came to remember the Civil War, fashion their values and ideals, and identify themselves as citizens of the South. Dickson's work underscores Freeman's contributions to the enduring memory of Confederate courage and sacrifice in southern culture. The longtime editor of the Richmond News Leader, Freeman wrote several authoritative and extraordinarily influential multivolume historical narratives about both Confederate general Robert E. Lee and the high command of the Army of Northern Virginia. His contributions to the enduring southern memory framework -- with its grand narrative of Confederate courage and sacrifice, and its attachment to symbols and rituals -- still serve as a touchstone for the memory-truths that define a distinct identity in the South.


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