Lanterns on the Levee
by Percy, William AlexanderEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-10-01
Publisher(s): Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Summary
The Southern poet's memoirs recreate his childhood years on the Mississippi Delta, his service in Belgium with Hoover, and his conflict with the Ku Klux Klan in Greenville
Table of Contents
| The Delta | p. 3 |
| Delta Folks | p. 16 |
| Mur and Nain | p. 25 |
| Mere and Pere | p. 35 |
| Playmates | p. 46 |
| A Side-Show Gotterdammerung | p. 56 |
| A Small Boy's Heroes | p. 65 |
| Learning from Teachers | p. 76 |
| Sewanee | p. 92 |
| A Year Abroad | p. 105 |
| At the Harvard Law School | p. 113 |
| The Return of the Native | p. 125 |
| The Bottom Rail on Top | p. 140 |
| 1914-1916 | p. 156 |
| The Peewee Squad | p. 169 |
| Getting to the Front | p. 184 |
| At the Front | p. 201 |
| The Ku Klux Klan Comes and Goes | p. 225 |
| Hell and High Water | p. 242 |
| The Flood of 1927 | p. 249 |
| Planters, Share-Croppers, and Such | p. 270 |
| Fode | p. 285 |
| A Note on Racial Relations | p. 298 |
| For the Younger Generation | p. 310 |
| A Bit of Diary | p. 322 |
| Jackdaw in the Garden | p. 332 |
| Home | p. 344 |
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