Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back - Rilegato

Warren, Robert Penn

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ISBN 10: 0813114454 ISBN 13: 9780813114453

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Kentucky, 1980

Riassunto

In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd County, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress.
From that nostalgic journey grew this reflective essay on the tragic career of Jefferson Davis - "not a modern man in any sense of the word but a conservative called to manage what was, in one sense, a revolution." Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back is also a meditation by one of our wisest and most beloved men of letters on the ironies of American history and the paradoxes of the modern South.

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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), born in Guthrie, Kentucky, was one of America's most revered writers, producing fiction, poetry, history, and criticism, much of it focusing on the moral dilemmas of the South. He served as America's first poet laureate. He received the Pulitzer Prize three times, for his novel All the King's Men and for his books of poetryPromises: Poems 1954--1956 and Now and Then. He is also the author ofPortrait of a Father and The Cave.

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Book by Warren Robert Penn

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• Editore: Univ Pr of Kentucky
• Data di pubblicazione: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0813114454
• ISBN 13: 9780813114453
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 114