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While best known for his work as a novelist, journalist, and film critic-Knoxville-born writer James Agee was also an award-winning poet. Having published his first volume of poetry at just…
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Michael Lofaro
The legendary feats of Davy Crockett, who could tree a ghost, ride his thirty-seven-foot-long alligator up Niagara Falls, and drink up the Mississippi River, are common knowledge to devotees of…
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Michael A. Lofaro
Presents and analyses three (auto)biographical writings published in 1833 - The Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone; Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk and The Life and Col. David Crockett of…
The legendary Davy Crockett arose simultaneously with the emergence of the historical Crockett as a public figure, and once established, the man and the myth were forevermore entangled. This work…
Originally published in 1833, the autobiography of the Sauk war chief Black Hawk was the first memoir written by a Native American who was actively resisting US Indian removal policy…
A superb collection from James Agee scholars that features myriad approaches for understanding the author’s fiction, poetry, journalism, and screenwriting. Contributors explore overlapping and sometimes unique subjects, themes, and accomplishments…
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The embodiment of the American hero, the man of action, the pathfinder, Daniel Boone represents the great adventure of his age – the westward movement of the American people.
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Published in 1957 to wide acclaim, James Agee’s A Death in the Family was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature. However, the novel had been so heavily edited by…
Michael A Lofaro
Southern Manuscript Sermons before 1800 is the first guide to the study of the manuscript sermon literature of the Southern colonies/states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia…
Barely noticed upon publication in 1941, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans’s unique chronicle of Alabama sharecroppers, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, would enjoy a remarkable revival during…
David Crockett, the frontier humorist and teller of tall tales, comes to life here in what is usually known as his "Autobiography." Crockett was surrounded by such a mass of…
Michael A. Lofaro,Michael A Lafaro
These never before collected or reprinted tales, were part of the original primary force that created the tall tale Davy Crockett.
The Nashville almanacs significantly contributed to the development of…
John Bakeless
An authoritative biography of one of the most romantic figures of the history, Daniel Boone.
James Atkins Shackford
Davy Crockett has been America’s best-known folk hero for at least 160 years. This biography of Crockett includes an introduction by Michael Lofaro.
Dr Michael A Lofaro
Novelist, journalist, film critic, poet, and activist James Agee (1909?1955) produced an impressive array of literary works spanning three decades. His poems, novels, essays, works of criticism, and screenplays gave…
