The Nation On the Flying Trapeze: The United States as the people of the East see us

James Saxon Childers

Published by David McKay Co, 1960

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Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. Signed and inscribed by Author (Name of recipient is hidden). Ex-library with usual marks. No marks noted in text. Binding is sound. . . . . . . . Educator, newspaperman, author, and publisher, James Saxon Childers (1899-1965) was a prolific writer of novels, biographies, and travel books based on his own extensive travels before, during, and after World War II. Although most of his life was spent in the American South, he used the region as a setting in only three of his works of fiction. Childers's education and academic experiences provided the subject matter for much of his early fiction. Laurel and Straw (1927), for example, tells the story of an American Rhodes Scholar at Oxford who tries to conform to upper-class English mores without embracing their elitism. Hilltop in the Rain (1928), set at a small southern college, depicts the growing frustrations of a young man whose inner life is more important than his job or marriage. Childers's later and best-known novel, published in 1936, bears the generic but intriguing title A Novel About a White Man and a Black Man in the Deep South. It was, for a college professor in Alabama at the time, a bold effort to address institutionalized racism in southern society. -- Encyclopedia of Alabama. Seller Inventory # 99186

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Nation On the Flying Trapeze: The United...

Publisher: David McKay Co

Publication Date: 1960

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed By Author