Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son (Library of Southern Civilization) - Softcover

Percy, William Alexander

 
9780807100721: Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son (Library of Southern Civilization)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807100722 ISBN 13: 9780807100721
Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

The Southern poet's memoirs recreate his childhood years on the Mississippi Delta, his service in Belgium with Hoover, and his conflict with the Ku Klux Klan in Greenville

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William Alexander Percy died the year after his autobiography was published. During World War I he fought in France with the American 37th Division, rose to the rank of captain, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre with gold star. With his father, U.S. Senator LeRoy Percy, he was one of the leaders in the successful 1922 fight against the Ku Klux Klan in Greenville, and he headed the local Red Cross unit during the disastrous Mississippi River flooding of 1927. He was the author of four books of poetry and practiced law in Greenville until his death.

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Verlag
Louisiana State University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807100722
ISBN 13 
9780807100721
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
376
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