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Debra Long Hampton, Design; Elizabeth Blackburn, Cover Photograph (illustrator). Rare, indeed, is the father in American literature. Rare, too, the world of academia that escapes satire. And rarer, yet, the humble treatment of aristocrats. Here in this one splendid book we have treatment of all three done with great tact and intelligence. Alexander Blackburn was born into the aristocracy of wealth on his mother's side and into the aristocracy of intellect on his father's. His father, the celebrated professor of writing at Duke University, had brilliant professor-son relationships with such students as William Styron, Reynolds Price, Fred Chappell, Mac Hyman, and Guy Davenport. Yet it is his own, Alex, who tells with love the story of his father born the son of missionaries on a dirt, though richly carpeted, floor in Iran and who died 73 years later in Duke Hospital, blind and speechless, with Reynolds Price sitting up night after night playing Mozart for him. Between these two dramatic scenes, Alexander Blackburn sits often on the sidelines, yearning for recognition, and finally telling, herewith, his own story and his father's and most importantly the almost universal story, that tentative and painfully shy love that exists between father and son. William Blackburn's class in Literary Composition at Duke University (from the early 1930s to the late 1960s) was charmingly unstructured and wonderfully successful in the number of distinguished writers who emerged from it. In a finely textured book that manages to be a family history and an autobiography, Alexander Blackburn has written a warmly affectionate and insightful life of his father, whose complexities, emotional turmoil, and old-fashioned sense of honor need, as they have gotten, the hand of a novelist. There are several black and white photographs throughout the book. The book pages are clean and free of any markings or highlighting. There is a gift salutation of the previous owner on the inside of the front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xiv, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780895873118, 0895873117 ; OCLC 58595472 ; beige and brown cloth, in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: James F. Jackson, Innkeeper -- One Flag, Two Martyrs -- Colonel Francis Stebbins Bartow -- The Martyr of First Manassas -- Second Lieutenant William Preston Mangum, Jr. -- Earning a Regiment Its Famed Nickname -- Captain Dabney Carr Harrison -- In His Brother's Footsteps -- Private Charlie Jackson -- His Father's Son -- Brigadier General Robert Hopkins Hatton -- A Grand Final Review -- Brigadier General Turner Ashby -- To Kill the Yankee-Killer -- William Bruce Mumford, Disabled Soldier -- Treason or Patriotism? -- Color Sergeant James Hunt Taylor -- The Stained Banner -- Private John Frederick Krenson -- Just One of the "Beardless Boys" -- Corporal James Cal Jones -- The Final Farewell -- Captain Hugh Augustus White -- Exercising a Wider Influence for Good -- Unidentified Confederate Soldier -- Praying with a Stranger -- Colonel William Peleg Rogers -- Honor at All Costs -- Hiram T. Smith, Civilian -- The Substitute -- Lieutenant Nathaniel D. Renfroe -- The Fighting Parson -- Captain Peter Bramlett -- Gratitude for a Good Samaritan -- Major John Pelham -- The Gallant Pelham -- Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan Jackson -- Stonewall -- Captain William Francis Corbin -- A Worthy Example -- Colonel William Orton Williams -- The Curious Case of Colonel Williams and Lieutenant Peters -- Private Stringfellow Houston -- The Indefatigable Spirit of Youth -- Colonel Henry "Harry" King Burgwyn, Jr. -- The Boy Colonel -- Colonel Isaac Erwin Avery -- Cemetery Hill -- Brigadier General William Barksdale -- Living and Dying the Dream -- Colonel James Keith Marshall -- Sinking at the High-Water Mark -- Brigadier General Lewis Addison Armistead -- That Sublime Four-Letter Word -- George Cummings, Body Servant -- Undying Loyalty -- Brigadier General James Johnston Pettigrew -- From High Tide to Falling Waters -- Brigadier General Benjamin Hardin Helm -- Brother-in-Law vs. Brother-in-Law -- Lieutenant Richard Rowland Kirkland -- Death of an Angel -- First Lieutenant John E. Wilson -- Brothers in Blood -- Private Samuel Davis -- But One Life to Give -- David Owen Dodd, Telegrapher -- Too Young to Die -- Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart -- Lee's Eyes and Ears -- Artilleryman Edward Cooper -- From the Firing Squad to the Firing Line -- Dr. David Herbert Llewellyn, Assistant Surgeon -- Every Man for Himself, Save One -- Lieutenant Isaac Lightner -- Three Years behind the Big Guns -- Private William Youree -- Billy Reb -- Private Dewitt Smith Jobe -- Action Rather Than Words -- Chaplain Emmeran Bliemel -- Under the Din of Battle -- Lieutenant Colonel David Berkley Lang -- Wherever Duty Calls -- Private William Thomas Overby -- The Nathan Hale of the Confederacy -- Major General Stephen Dodson Ramseur -- From Birth to Death In the Company of Friends -- Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne -- The Wearing o' the Gray -- Colonel Mike Farrell -- The Fighting Irishman -- Captain John Yates Beall, Confederate States Navy -- Master of Intrigue -- Captain Robert Cobb Kennedy -- Burning and Hanging in New York -- Colonel William Johnson Pegram -- Tempting Fate -- Edmund Ruffin, Fire-Eater -- The First and Last Shots of the War -- Captain George Washington Summers and Sergeant Isaac Newton Koontz -- Injustice in the Name of Justice -- Captain Champ Ferguson -- The Master of Mayhem ; FINE/FINE. Book.