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His wife, Anna Nessy Perlberg, completed the manuscript and contributed an afterword to the collection.<br>Moving and unpretentious, the poems range from verses about the poet's childhood, including the early death of his father, to pieces in conversation with Chinese poet T'ao Ch'ien, to poignant poems about his grandson. 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In contrast to his mother's family, who were \"normal, good people devoid of mystery,\" the ways of the Rubins both puzzled and attracted him. In My Father's People, Rubin tells \"as best I can about them all -- my father, his three brothers, and his three sisters.\" It is a searching, sensitive story of Americanization, assimilation, and the displacement -- and survival -- of a religious heritage.<br>Born between 1888 and 1902 in Charleston, South Carolina, their father an immigrant Russian Jew, the Rubin children suffered dire poverty, humiliation, and separation when their parents became incapacitated. Three of the boys were sent to the Hebrew Orphans' Home in Atlanta for several years. Yet the sons all managed to build long, productive, even notable lives and livelihoods, becoming, variously, a newspaper editor, Broadway playwright and Hollywood screenwriter, businessman, and -- in the case of Rubin's father -- a far-famed long-range weather prognosticator.<br>Private people, reticent to discuss their painful early years, the Rubins were not easily knowable. Still, the author draws a strikingly candid portrait of each, using memories, stories, keen insight, and broad empathy -- fascinating character studies full of individual propensities and peculiarities that together reveal the wider family resemblance. Although the Rubins were mostly nonreligious as adults, their family's rabbinical tradition and their experience as southern Jews were key to their vocational fervor and the lives they made for themselves. \"They were Americans, and they were Jews,\" Rubin concludes. \"These were enough.\"<br>Told with Louis Rubin's signature eloquence and wit, My Father's People is a testimony to the courage of immigrant southern Jews and their gifts to their chosen country.</p>", "author": "Louis D. 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McAlexanders accomplished portrait of Peter Taylor (19171994) achieves a remarkable intimacy with this central figure in the history of the American short story and one of the greatest southern writers of his time. McAlexander knits together the facts of Taylors life in a compelling, seamless account: his deep and distinguished family roots in Tennessee; his close bonds with writers from three generations, including<br><br><br>Allen Tate, Robert Lowell, and James Alan McPherson; his establishment of the dysfunctional family as a force in American literature; and his perseverance as a writer, finally rewarded with the Pulitzer Prize at age seventy. 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They have limited \"war writing\" to works by men, such as William Butler Yeats's poem \"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death\" (1919), which relies on a male perspective: a pilot contemplates his forthcoming flight, his duty to his country, and his life in combat. But works by Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein set in wartime reveal experiences and views of war markedly different from those of male writers. They write women and their bodies into their texts, thus creating space for female war writing, insisting on female presence in wartime, and, perhaps most significantly, critiquing war and patriarchal politics, often in devastating fashion.<br><br>Goodspeed-Chadwick begins with Barnes, who in her surrealist novel Nightwood (1936) emphasizes the actual perversity of war by placing it in contrast to the purported perverse and deviant behavior of her main characters. 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Addressing a huge gap in the historiography of the antebellum United States, he explores the impact of Britain's abolition of slavery in 1834 on the coming of the war and reveals the strong influence of Britain's old Atlantic empire on the United States' politics. He demonstrates how American slaveholders and abolitionists alike borrowed from the antislavery movement developing on the transatlantic stage to fashion contradictory portrayals of abolition that became central to the arguments for and against American slavery.<br>Richly researched and skillfully argued, The Problem of Emancipation explores a long-neglected aspect of American slavery and the history of the Atlantic World and bridges a gap in our understanding of the American Civil War.<br>\"Most discussions about the roots of the American Civil War seldom stray beyond the nation's borders, but Rugemer makes a persuasive case for why that should change.\" -- Charleston (SC) Post and Courier<br>\"A tremendous contribution to the greatest issue and ongoing controversy in pre--twentieth-century American historiography: the causes of the American Civil War. 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Few historians have shown such sophistication in analyzing the rapidly changing pre--Civil War media and the shifts in public opinion.\" -- David Brion Davis, author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World</p>", "author": "Edward Bartlett Rugemer", "slug": "the-problem-of-emancipation-574061-9780807134634-edward-bartlett-rugemer", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/cover_image/9780807134634.png", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "574061", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/574061/the-problem-of-emancipation-574061-9780807134634-edward-bartlett-rugemer", "bisac_codes": [ "HIS036050", "HIS041000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780807146859", "EISBN13": "9780807134634", "EISBN10": "0807134635" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010015010985" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000574060", "attributes": { "name": "Gendered Politics in the Modern South", "subtitle": "The Susan Smith Case and the Rise of a New Sexism", "description": "<p>In the fall of 1994 Susan Smith, a young mother from Union, South Carolina, reported that an African American male carjacker had kidnapped her two children. The news sparked a multi-state investigation and evoked nationwide sympathy. Nine days later, she confessed to drowning the boys in a nearby lake, and that sympathy quickly turned to outrage. Smith became the topic of thousands of articles, news segments, and media broadcastsovershadowing the coverage of midterm elections and the O. J. Simpson trial. The notoriety of her case was more than tabloid fare, however; her story tapped into a cultural debate about gender and politics at a crucial moment in American history.<br><br>In Gendered Politics in the Modern South Keira V. Williams uses the Susan Smith case to analyze the \"new sexism\" found in the agenda of the budding neoconservatism movement of the 1990s. She notes that in the weeks after Smith's confession, soon-to-be Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich made statements linking Smith's behavior to the 1960s counterculture movement and to Lyndon Johnson's \"Great Society\" social welfare programs. 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