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    Atticus Finch: The Biography
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    Atticus Finch: The Biography

    Written by Joseph Crespino

    Narrated by Dan Woren

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateMay 8, 2018
    ISBN9781549115103
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    Atticus Finch: The Biography
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    Joseph Crespino

    Joseph Crespino is a professor of history at Emory University. He is the author of Strom Thurmond's America, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution and the co-editor of The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism.

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