North Of The Danube

History

ERSKINE CALDWELL

Margaret Bourke-White

Europe

Da Capo Press

Say, Is This the U.S.A

Biographies & Memoirs

The renowned American author, whose realistic novels about the South have become an integral part of our country's literature, follows a boyhood dream to visit Mid-America, the alluring territory adjacent to the "afternoon side" of the Mississippi River. Inspired by a legend about the length of shadows in this region, the author embarks upon a wide-ranging journey from Arkansas up through Missouri and Iowa into Minnesota, and from the Dakotas down through Nebraska into Kansas and Oklahoma. He finds the doings and sayings of the living people "more interesting than even the most likely tales perpetuated in volumes of folklore."

Afternoons in Mid America: Observations and Impressions

Dodd, Mead

Afternoons in Mid-America: Observations and Impressions

Dodd, Mead, Co.

In the middle years of the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent eighteen months traveling across the back roads of the Deep South--from South Carolina to Arkansas--to document the living conditions of the sharecropper. Their collaboration resulted in You Have Seen Their Faces, a graphic portrayal of America's desperately poor rural underclass. First published in 1937, it is a classic comparable to Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives, and James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, which it preceded by more than three years.
Caldwell lets the poor speak for themselves. Supported by his commentary, they tell how the tenant system exploited whites and blacks alike and fostered animosity between them. Bourke-White, who sometimes waited hours for the right moment, captures her subjects in the shacks where they lived, the depleted fields where they plowed, and the churches where they worshipped.

You Have Seen Their Faces

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Ayer Co. Pub

The story of the Lesters, a family of destitute white sharecroppers debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness.

Tobacco Road

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Heinemann

A Woman in the House (Signet #705)

New American Library

Georgia Boy (Signet #760)

Literary

Kneel To the Rising Sun (and other stories) (Signet #869)

Signet Books

The Humorous Side of Erskine Caldwell (Signet #899)

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