Cash had made, first in 1932, then in 1936, two previous applications for Guggenheim grants: the first to have been a study of Lafcadio Hearn, to have been titled "Anatomy of a Romantic," using Hearn as an exemplar by which to study Southern romantics generally; the second to have been a study of the Nazi mindset by spending a year in Germany, a contrasting reprise of Cash's bicycle tour of pre-Nazi Europe during the summer of 1927. First, she discovers that one of her ancestors was a Union sympathizer. Cash was born in South Carolina in 1900. I was born, raised, educated in Georgia and have lived near Washington, DC for years. On February 10, 1941, The Mind of the South was published by Knopf. Cash’s closing paragraph still rings true today. What we lack- what most of us instinctively know we are missing, what makes so many of us log on to Facebook in the first place- is community.”, REALLY Underrated Books (Fewer than 1,000 Ratings), Mariah Carey Is Telling Her Own Story (and Recommending Books). This fiftieth-anniversary edition of The Mind of the South includes an incisive analysis of Cash himself and of his crucial place in the history of modern Southern letters. The third and successful application was sponsored by the Knopfs and by Raleigh News & Observer Editor and Guggenheim recipient, Jonathan W. Daniels, who had befriended Cash in 1938. The book was delayed, much to the Knopfs' worry and frustration, for over a decade as Cash meticulously labored to perfect the work to its final conclusion in mid-1940, receiving help along the way from the noted University of North Carolina sociologist, Howard Odum. Many observers say that "the South" has disappeared. His Mind was considered by some the perfect foil for the contemporaneous novel, Gone With the Wind. All rights reserved. We’d love your help. I loved this book! The author brings out many pertinent points in this book, but as urban dweller's often do, she misses much of the perspective of rural folk. The Charlotte News, which closed its doors in 1985, was at the time a lively, progressive newspaper enjoying the largest circulation of any afternoon daily in the Carolinas and its broad readership expanded admiration for Cash's writing and extraordinary prescience on the developing war news out of Europe and the Pacific. ", "A narrative that pulls on new data, interviews, historic archives and plain old observation.....I'm thinking The New Mind of the South has come along at just the right time. W.J. And, despite changes for the better, they remain its characteristic vices today. And frank insight into the evolving southern identity and an exploration of what it really means to be southern from a unique and detached point of view, I was excited to read this book, and thought it had a lot of promise. It takes some big brass balls to play so directly off a seminal work like The Mind of the South. With these assets, the book has made its way steadily upward in prestige during the Forties, Fifties, and Sixties. The information about The New Mind of the South shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. If you know the academic literature of the past, oh, thirty years, then the tension between historical fact and Southern identity is old news - a point Thompson acknowledges (and attributes to academia) extensively throughout. If you haven't heard of record-smashing singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, is there any hope for you? Maybe it's the current atrocious political climate that seems to try to bring to bear on the South a light that it really can't rightly lay claim to anymore. Cash, more commonly known as W. J. Tracy Thompson helps clear up the myths and the outdated stereotypes. So underrated. The writing is positively poetic sometimes, especially in describing the food. See full terms and conditions and this month's choices. In 1991, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Mind of the South, two widely hailed seminars on the South and the impact through time of Cash's book on the South were held at Wake Forest and at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. For example, I did not need a 250 page book to tell me that racism is a unique issue for Southerners!

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