In Search of Bisco

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Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781453217221

<DIV><DIV><b>In this travelogue and memoir, groundbreaking novelist Erskine Caldwell looks back at a life lived in the troubled South </b></div><BR><DIV>Five decades removed from his own Southern childhood, novelist Erskine Caldwell sets out on a journey to find an old friend&mdash;a friend lost to him through the culture of segregation. As Caldwell follows a trail through Georgia, South Carolina, and much of the Deep South in search of his black childhood friend Bisco, his interviews with white and black Americans expose a range of attitudes that are tragic, if not surprising.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>Published first in the mid-1960s just as the South was undergoing a radical transformation by freedom marches and sit-ins, <i>In Search of Bisco</i> offers a heartfelt account of the civil rights movement by one of the region&rsquo;s fiercest critics and most prominent sons.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.</div></div>