The Nation On the Flying Trapeze: The United States as the people of the East see us

David McKay Co, 1960. Hardcover. Collectible Very Good/No Jacket. Signed and inscribed by Author (Name of recipient is hidden). Ex-library with usual marks. No marks noted in text. Binding is sound. . . . . . . . Educator, newspaperman, author, and publisher, James Saxon Childers (1899-1965) was a prolific writer of novels, biographies, and travel books based on his own extensive travels before, during, and after World War II. Although most of his life was spent in the American South, he used the region as a setting in only three of his works of fiction. Childers's education and academic experiences provided the subject matter for much of his early fiction. Laurel and Straw (1927), for example, tells the story of an American Rhodes Scholar at Oxford who tries to conform to upper-class English mores without embracing their elitism. Hilltop in the Rain (1928), set at a small southern college, depicts the growing frustrations of a young man whose inner life is more important than his job or marriage. Childers's later and best-known novel, published in 1936, bears the generic but intriguing title A Novel About a White Man and a Black Man in the Deep South. It was, for a college professor in Alabama at the time, a bold effort to address institutionalized racism in southern society. -- Encyclopedia of Alabama Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.