Title Looking for Clark Gable and other 20th-century pursuits : collected writings / Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton ; with a foreword by Wayne Flynt

Published Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages) : illustrations Summary From "girl reporter" to professor of history, Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton has witnessed some of the major events of the 20th century. Her stories of growing up during the Depression and coming of age during World War II evoke warm memories of another time - a time of innocence, a time when people dressed up to go riding in a car, a time when the whole town danced in the streets until midnight to celebrate the return of some soldiers ... a time when two young girls from Birmingham could safely take a train to Miami to catch a glimpse of a national hero, Clark Gable. From Birmingham to Washington, D.C., and back to Birmingham again, Hamilton's essays allow us to travel with her and relive some of the major events and themes of our times: the nation's reaction to the death of FDR, the reminiscences of Hosea Williams on the "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, the struggle by women to enter male-dominated professions, and the views of senior citizens and others toward the idea of "retirement." Notes Includes index Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer SUBJECT Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer fast Subject Journalists -- Southern States -- Biography Women journalists -- Southern States -- Biography HISTORY -- State & Local. Journalists Manners and customs Women journalists SUBJECT Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1865- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125666 United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140537 Subject Southern States United States Genre/Form Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 0585299862 9780585299860

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