The Bootlegger's Other Daughter
978-1-58544-447-2 Paperback
6 x 9 x 0 in
184 pp. 15 b&w photos.
Pub Date: 12/06/2004
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From her perspective as a child, she describes the cotton stamps and other programs of the New Deal, the yellow-dog Democrat politics and racism of East Texas, and the religious revivals and Old Settlers reunions that gave a break from working in the cotton patch. The colorful colloquialisms of rural East Texas that dot the manuscript help express both the traditionalism of the region and its changes under the impact of modernization, electrification, and the coming of war.
Along with these regional and national trends, Cimarolli skillfully interweaves the personal: conflict between her parents, the death of her brother a few days before his sixteenth birthday, and her own inner tensions.
Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce
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