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"Memoir of the lifetime of John Andrew Rice. Combines crafty storytelling, historical witness, and ethical wisdom, and it should take a prominent place in the lineage of nonfiction Southern writing from Frederick Douglass to Zora Neale Hurston and EudoraWelty. Not least amongst its instruction is the overall trajectory of Rice's life, which he charted as a "spirit of opposition" whose "technique" improved as the years passed, estranging him from colleagues and straining friendships, but sustaining the precious capacity to see people and things plainly"--
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John Andrew Rice, (1888-1968), born at Tanglewood Plantation near Lynchburg, South Carolina, USA, was an early Rhodes scholar and the visionary founder of Black Mountain College, a progressive institution that attracted pioneering artists and intellectuals from Europe and United States from its opening in 1933 to its closing in 1957.
Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University, USA. He is the author and editor of ten books including
Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 and
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future. His essays and commentaries have appeared in
Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Yale Review, Partisan Review, and
Chronicle of Higher Education.
William Craig Rice, director of Education Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, taught writing seminars for many years at Harvard University, USA and later served as the twelfth president of Shimer College, the Great Books College of Chicago, USA. He is the author of
Public Discourse & Academic Inquiry and of essays, verse, and reviews in
Common Review, New Criterion, Harvard Review, and other journals.
