Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son

Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son (Library of Southern Civilization)

Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885â€“1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his lifeâ€”although his life was exciting and variedâ€”but rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate unflinchingly a new and unstable era. The 1973 introduction by Walker Percyâ€”Will's nephew and adopted sonâ€”recalls the strong character and easy grace of "the most extraordinary man I have ever known." AUTHOR BIO: William Alexander Percy was the author of four books of poetry, and he practiced law in Greenville until his death, one year after the publication of his autobiography. Awarded the Croix de Guerre with gold star for his service in World War I, he also was one of the leaders in the succesful 1922 fight against the Ku Klux Klan in Greenville and headed the local Red Cross unit during the disastrous Mississippi River flooding of 1927.
Country USA
Brand LSU Press
Manufacturer LSU Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2006-10-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780807100721

Country	USA
Brand	LSU Press
Manufacturer	LSU Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2006-10-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780807100721

Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son (Library of Southern Civilization)

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