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...Richard H. Leach The Southern Regional Education Board . By Sugg Redding S. Jr. Jones George Hilton . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1960 . Pp. xv , 179 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Book Reviews 497 Patton, Cullen describes...

...Jay B. Hubbell Chivers’ Life of Poe . Edited with an Introduction by Davis Richard Beale . From the manuscripts in the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California. New York : E. P. Dutton , 1952 . Pp. 126 . $5.00 . Alias Simon Suggs: The Life and Times of Johnson Jones...

...Redding S. Sugg, Jr. Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Lillian Smith and the Condition of Woman Redding S. Sugg, Jr. Six years after Lillian Smith s death, it still seems correct to say that her work was dominated by concern about the evils of segrega­ tion; but the extent...

...Redding S. Sugg, Jr. Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 John s Yoknapatawpha Redding S. Sugg, Jr. It was the lot of John Wesley Thompson Falkner, III, to be the younger brother who also wrote. Nevertheless, he produced valuable work in both fiction and painting. His fiction...

... and Mississippi (1853) is that en­ titled Simon Suggs, Jr., Esq: A Legal Biography. Baldwin took his character s name from that given to the old scoundrel in John­ son Jones Hooper s Simon Suggs stories. Like his father, Suggs, Jr., is semiliterate and a complete rogue. The sketch opens with some correspondence...

... future. This book is the result of that effort. Although Professor Sugg was formerly a Board staff member and still maintains a connection with the Board, and although publication of the manuscript was underwritten by the Board, the product of Sugg s and Jones s re­ search is in no sense a whitewash...

...). It is particularly good on key sketches in Longstreet s Georgia Scenes and, above all, on Hooper s creation of Simon Suggs, whom it celebrates as the first avatar of the confidence man that American literature had been developing. All these analyses build on historical data integrated by mind-bending generalizations...

... on. The samples of work by our humorists like Artemus Ward, Simon Suggs, Mark Twain, Bill Arp, and the others included in Professor Blair s volume will be of interest to the student of the subject, but that student may well inquire as to the reasons for the omission of works by such an author as O. W. Holmes...

... Workshop Conference and Mexican parents during the Latino Parents Visit Day provided me with productive sugges- tions and enthusiastic commentary. At New Mexico State in Las Cruces, the Center for Border and Latin American Studies and the Department of Soci- ology and Anthropology gave me a space...

... that grew out of a germ. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA W. V. O CONNOR The Southern Regional Education Board. By Redding S. Sugg, Jr., and George Hilton Jones. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960. Pp. xv, 179. $4.00. This is a well-written account of the origins, development, and present status...

... Modern Chivalry (1792- 1815) to Howells s Leatherwood God (1916). It is particularly good on key sketches in Longstreet s Georgia Scenes and, above all, on Hooper s creation of Simon Suggs, whom it celebrates as the first avatar of the confidence man that American literature had been developing. All...

... by the general belief that truth is a monis­ tic ideal. Indeed, the converse of this belief, that truth ought to be one and is therefore like all pure states in a mixed world probably im­ possible, is peculiarly subversive. We do not expect the truth and are not shocked by its absence. From Captain Simon Suggs...

... of moderation restrained the characterization of free negro, overseer and slave-trader from the horseplay and naive cruelty of Simon Suggs and Major Jones. The excess of coarseness and romance makes an unpalatable mixture. Feeble as these attempts at the purpose-novel are, they de­ serve attention...

... seen the carnage of battle. The very last television show he ever filmed, in this room where we are now gathered, was about the mass slaughter at Jonestown. And his one novel, A Stub­ born Case, published in 1972, is about a man (who bears a sugges- 420 The South Atlantic Quarterly tive resemblance...

... elsewhere in illumi­ nating fashion would have been welcome. His essay is sugges- Problems of Modern France 139 tive, however, on French aspects of the contemporary cult of the irrational. Has World War II acted as a new watershed in French history? Wisely, the contributors refrain from premature judgment...

..., and as we feel in our bones it ought rather to be lived (Jameson 1992: 34). Jameson s sugges- tion that utopia is in everything, but so too dystopia, is startling but also invig- orating in its capacious. All works of art all! contain both reification ( as we live it now ) and utopia ( as we feel it ought...

... solidarity mechanisms with more formal mechanisms of social integration. Yet these policy sugges- tions coexist with pleas for deregulation of labor and capital markets, which render the establishment of formal safety nets practically unfeasible.While it is increasingly clear that poverty is a serious...

...- trol than by health-oriented institutions of social justice. We offer sugges- tions for how to make public health preparedness more ethical and effec- tive through an orientation based in grassroots democracy that stresses the integration of professional services with health-promoting...

.... Elliott, 98 F. 2d. 529 (1951); The Struggle For Negro Rights, Lawyers' Guild Review 9 (Winter 1949), 9-12. 10. Quoted in Redding S. Sugg, Jr., "Lillian Smith: A Prophecy of Strange Fruit, Atlanta 9 (Feb. 1970), 42. Myrdalism and White Southern Liberals 189 voir of factual information and, more...

... Evans, I wonder, reading of such characters as Simon Suggs and his victims, see an opportunity to create his two leading figures, the Fool-Killer and the Rascal-Whaler? Or did the folly and rascality of which a journalist sees so much in human nature suggest to his mind the Fool-Killer as a concrete...