by Kenneth A. Tabler ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A
A gentle memoir that captures a poignant time in American history.
A child of the Depression looks back to those penny-pinching days.
As with many people from Tabler’s era, the Depression years would have a lasting effect on the author–the memory of deprivation ever present on his mind. Not only did the resourcefulness of his parents contribute to his prudent nature, but the Depression also taught him social commitment. The depth of “neighbor-to-neighbor” relationships, the generosity and concern folks had for one another, would become for Tabler a marker of how good people can carry on during hard times. The author writes of this part of his life with insight and sympathy, acknowledging simultaneously the hardships and the communal strength of the time. He recalls an America working together to survive, cold nights, frozen cistern pumps, frightening medical challenges and FDR’s morale-boosting radio fireside chats. When his father moved the family from the town to the country, exchanging factory for field, Tabler was introduced to working the land. These early days of vegetable plots and the satisfaction of watching a seedling break through the soil made a significant impact on the author. A perspicacious high-school football coach later recommended that Tabler seek his calling in the fields, and so he earned a doctorate in dairy agriculture. Tabler charts his journey to adulthood with an endearing colloquial frankness, and like many memoirs, works chronologically, forging forward with little time spent on critical reflection. Still, his anecdotes of college life and his relationship with close friend Muggs, the courting of his wife Pat–shown through her quaint letters to her parents–and the storied values of his family reflect a time of hard work, optimism and resolve. The author reports on the birth of their children, his research and building their dream home–all carried out with the perseverance and sense of purpose born from his Depression days.
A gentle memoir that captures a poignant time in American history.Pub Date: N/A
ISBN: 978-0-9773114-0-8
Page Count: -
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by Charlayne Hunter-Gault ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1992
From the national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour: a moving memoir of her youth in the Deep South and her role in desegregating the Univ. of Georgia. The eldest daughter of an army chaplain, Hunter-Gault was born in what she calls the ``first of many places that I would call `my place' ''—the small village of Due West, tucked away in a remote little corner of South Carolina. While her father served in Korea, Hunter-Gault and her mother moved first to Covington, Georgia, and then to Atlanta. In ``L.A.'' (lovely Atlanta), surrounded by her loving family and a close-knit black community, the author enjoyed a happy childhood participating in activities at church and at school, where her intellectual and leadership abilities soon were noticed by both faculty and peers. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.'' Determined to be a journalist, she applied to several colleges—all outside of Georgia, for ``to discourage the possibility that a black student would even think of applying to one of those white schools, the state provided money for black students'' to study out of state. Accepted at Michigan's Wayne State, the author was encouraged by local civil-rights leaders to apply, along with another classmate, to the Univ. of Georgia as well. Her application became a test of changing racial attitudes, as well as of the growing strength of the civil-rights movement in the South, and Gault became a national figure as she braved an onslaught of hostilities and harassment to become the first black woman to attend the university. A remarkably generous, fair-minded account of overcoming some of the biggest, and most intractable, obstacles ever deployed by southern racists. (Photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1992
ISBN: 0-374-17563-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1992
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by William Strunk & E.B. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1972
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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