Palmetto Country - Softcover

Kennedy, Stetson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813009596 ISBN 13: 9780813009599

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 1989

Synopsis

Reprint of the 1942 edition. The author headed the Florida Writer's Project unit on folklore, oral history, and social ethnic studies for the Works Progress Administration. This is his wide-ranging social history of Florida and the deep South up to the eve of WWII. No bibliography. Published by Flor

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Review:

I don't know of any book on my whole shelf that hits me any harder than Palmetto Country. It gives me a better trip and taste and look and feel for Florida than I got in the forty-seven states I've actually been in body and tramped in boot. If only, and if only, all our library books could say what [Kennedy does] the jokes and songs and old ballads about voodoo and the hoodoo and the bigly winds down in your neck of the woodvine -- Woody Guthrie "Folk Musician and Singer"

I liked Stetson Kennedy's Palmetto Country very much indeed when it first appeared, and I like it even better now that, after [more than] fifty years, it is being reprinted and he has added an admonition that if we do not take better care of Florida we are going to lose it. -- Marjorie Stoneman Douglas "Author of The Everglades: River of Grass"

Synopsis:

Reprint of the 1942 edition. The author headed the Florida Writer's Project unit on folklore, oral history, and social ethnic studies for the Works Progress Administration. This is his wide-ranging social history of Florida and the deep South up to the eve of WWII. No bibliography. Published by Florida A&M U. Press. Annotation copyright Book News,

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0813009596
• ISBN 13: 9780813009599
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352