The Mississippi Delta and the World - The Memoirs of David L. Cohn

Informationen zum Autor James C. Cobb is Bernadotte Schmitt Professor of History at the University of Tennessee and author of, among other books, The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. Klappentext David L. Cohn was in essence a "cosmopolitan provincial", an observer who realized that the problems and circumstances of the Delta were at the same time unique and universal. A native of Greenville, he was educated at the University of Virginia and Yale University Law School. A brief but highly successful career in business allowed him to pursue his dream of being a writer. He traveled widely but remained faithful to his Delta roots, counting among his close friends both William Alexander Percy and Hodding Carter. He was intensely interested in politics and served as speechwriter for Democratic party leaders, including Adlai Stevenson, George McGovern, and Lyndon Johnson. Lamenting the trend toward overspecialization, Cohn did not shrink from expressing his views on a wide array of topics: race and religion, free trade and internationalism, technology and culture, and materialism and matrimony, among others. Southern to the marrow and an almost zealously patriotic American, he was also a Jew and he managed a harmonious integration of all three identities rather than the separation or suppression of any one.

Product details

• Authors: David L. Cohn, David L./ Cobb Cohn
• Assisted by: James C Cobb (Editor), James C. Cobb (Editor)
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.1995
• EAN: 9780807119914
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-1991-4
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Library of Southern Civilizati; Library of Southern Civilizati; Library of Southern Civilization
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies