Darden Asbury Pyron
Biographic Data
| ID | 5184028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darden Asbury Pyron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darden Asbury |
| FAMILY NAME | Pyron |
| SIGNATURE | PYRON D A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Liberace
Reconstructing Dixie
The South has long played a central role in America's national imagination - the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation's moral other and its moral center. Reconstructing Dixie explores how ideas about the South function within American culture. Narratives of the region often cohere around such tropes as Southern hospitality and the Southern (white) lady. Tara McPherson argues that these discursiv…
Bernice Kelly Harris
Bernice Kelly Harris: A Good Life Was Writing. By Valerie Raleigh Yow. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxii, 334. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2348-X.) Bernice Kelly was born in 1891 or 1894 (the text of this biography relies on the former date, but the copyright page lists the latter), and grew up on her father's substantial farm near Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated from Meredith College in the state capital and taught…
Liberace
Journal Article Liberace: An American Boy. By Darden Asbury Pyron. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xviii, 494 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-226-68667-1.) Get access Erika Doss Erika Doss University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 733–734, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675244 Published: 01 September 2001
The Civil War in Popular Culture
My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture
Southern Daughter
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind is perhaps one of the most famous American novels of the 20th century. Her life story is equally compelling. As much the classic Southern belle as Scarlett O'Hara, she shunned her privileged background to forge a career in the male-dominated newspaper business, lending her support to numerous radical cultural and intellectual movements. Her one and only novel sold over one million copies in the first six mon…
The Disappearing South? Studies in Regional Change and Continuity
Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4There is widespread agreement that the has changed dramatically since the end of World War II. Social, demographic, economic, and political changes have altered significantly the region long considered the nation s most distinctive. There is less agreement, however, about the extent to which the forces of nationalization have eroded the major elements of Southern distinctiveness. Although this volum…
Lillian Smith
U. B. Phillips
Florida and the American Motion Picture Industry, 1898-1980. Volumes I and II
Road to Tara
Margaret Mitchell was as complex and compelling as her legendary heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, and her story is as dramatic as anything out of her own imagination-indeed, it is the basis for the legend she created. In this commemorative reprint of Road to Tara, Anne Edwards tells the real story of Margaret Mitchell and the extraordinary novel that is part of our heritage
Recasting
This collection of essays comments on the pre-World War II culture of the United States, when David O. Selznick produced
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Road to Tara
Margaret Mitchell was as complex and compelling as her legendary heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, and her story is as dramatic as anything out of her own imagination-indeed, it is the basis for the legend she created. In this commemorative reprint of Road to Tara, Anne Edwards tells the real story of Margaret Mitchell and the extraordinary novel that is part of our heritage
Recasting
This collection of essays comments on the pre-World War II culture of the United States, when David O. Selznick produced
Florida and the American Motion Picture Industry, 1898-1980. Volumes I and II
U. B. Phillips
Lillian Smith
The Disappearing South? Studies in Regional Change and Continuity
Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4There is widespread agreement that the has changed dramatically since the end of World War II. Social, demographic, economic, and political changes have altered significantly the region long considered the nation s most distinctive. There is less agreement, however, about the extent to which the forces of nationalization have eroded the major elements of Southern distinctiveness. Although this volum…
Southern Daughter
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind is perhaps one of the most famous American novels of the 20th century. Her life story is equally compelling. As much the classic Southern belle as Scarlett O'Hara, she shunned her privileged background to forge a career in the male-dominated newspaper business, lending her support to numerous radical cultural and intellectual movements. Her one and only novel sold over one million copies in the first six mon…
My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture
The Civil War in Popular Culture
Bernice Kelly Harris
Bernice Kelly Harris: A Good Life Was Writing. By Valerie Raleigh Yow. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxii, 334. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2348-X.) Bernice Kelly was born in 1891 or 1894 (the text of this biography relies on the former date, but the copyright page lists the latter), and grew up on her father's substantial farm near Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated from Meredith College in the state capital and taught…
Liberace
Journal Article Liberace: An American Boy. By Darden Asbury Pyron. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xviii, 494 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-226-68667-1.) Get access Erika Doss Erika Doss University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 733–734, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675244 Published: 01 September 2001
Reconstructing Dixie
The South has long played a central role in America's national imagination - the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation's moral other and its moral center. Reconstructing Dixie explores how ideas about the South function within American culture. Narratives of the region often cohere around such tropes as Southern hospitality and the Southern (white) lady. Tara McPherson argues that these discursiv…
Liberace
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