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Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon / Joseph Crespino.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781541644946 : HRD
- ISBN: 1541644948 : HRD
- Physical Description: xx, 248 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2018.
- Copyright: c2018.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-230) and index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Lee, Harper > Criticism and interpretation. Finch, Atticus (Fictitious character) Lee, Harper. To kill a mockingbird. Lee, Harper. Go set a watchman. Lee, Harper. Lee, A. C. (Amasa Coleman) |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Atticus Finch : The Biography
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Atticus Finch : The Biography
Who was the real Atticus Finch? A prize-winning historian reveals the man behind the legend The publication of Go Set a Watchman in 2015 forever changed how we think about Atticus Finch. Once seen as a paragon of decency, he was reduced to a small-town racist. How are we to understand this transformation? In Atticus Finch , historian Joseph Crespino draws on exclusive sources to reveal how Harper Lee's father provided the central inspiration for each of her books. A lawyer and newspaperman, A. C. Lee was a principled opponent of mob rule, yet he was also a racial paternalist. Harper Lee created the Atticus of Watchman out of the ambivalence she felt toward white southerners like him. But when a militant segregationist movement arose that mocked his values, she revised the character in To Kill a Mockingbird to defend her father and to remind the South of its best traditions. A story of family and literature amid the upheavals of the twentieth century, Atticus Finch is essential to understanding Harper Lee, her novels, and her times.
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