Foto de l'autor

Hodding Carter (1907–1972)

Autor/a de Robert E. Lee and the Road of Honor

22+ obres 859 Membres 3 Ressenyes

Sobre l'autor

Nota de desambiguació:

(eng) Hodding Carter (1907-1972) should not be confused with his son Hodding Carter III (b. 1935), nor his grandson W. Hodding Carter (b. 1962).

Obres de Hodding Carter

Obres associades

Reporting Civil Rights, Part 1: American Journalism 1941-1963 (2003) — Col·laborador — 232 exemplars
The Aspirin Age, 1919-1941 (1949) — Col·laborador — 129 exemplars
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Col·laborador — 89 exemplars
This is the South (1959) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
Mississippi Writers: An Anthology (1991) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars

Etiquetat

Coneixement comú

Nom oficial
Carter, William Hodding, II
Data de naixement
1907-02-03
Data de defunció
1972-04-04
Lloc d'enterrament
Greeneville Cemetery, Greenville, Mississippi, USA
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Hammond, Louisiana, USA
Llocs de residència
Hammond, Louisiana, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Greenville, Mississippi, USA
Educació
Bowdoin College (AB|1927)
Columbia University (MA|Journalism|1928)
Professions
journalist
newspaper editor
publisher
Relacions
Carter, Irma Dutartre (mother)
Carter, William Hodding , I (father)
Carter, William Hodding, III (son)
Carter, William Hodding, IV (grandson)
Premis i honors
Pulitzer Prize (editorials | 1946)
Biografia breu
Mr. Carter had three sons. The eldest, Hodding Carter III, was a White House aide during the Jimmy Carter administration.
Nota de desambiguació
Hodding Carter (1907-1972) should not be confused with his son Hodding Carter III (b. 1935), nor his grandson W. Hodding Carter (b. 1962).

Membres

Ressenyes

Carter was a prominent journalist of his era and lived near the Mississippi River in Greenville, Mississippi. This book takes on the task of describing much of the human history with the Mississippi, or at least the part that began when Europeans arrived in North America. The book is interesting mostly as a time capsule. Carter writes confidently about how man (and it is always men at that time) had conquered and tamed the river and about the unquestioned good of every economic activity along the river, like oil and gas exploration.

A generation later, we have a better understanding of the costs of our efforts to tame the river and to exploit every natural resource along its way, but if you want to know how we got here, this book is a pretty good introduction. I'm also not a big fan of his writing style, at least in this book; the prose is bloated and there are some factual errors that bothered me. I'm also pretty sure that some of the photographs are mislabeled.
… (més)
 
Marcat
klinkd | Jul 28, 2017 |

Premis

Potser també t'agrada

Autors associats

Estadístiques

Obres
22
També de
6
Membres
859
Popularitat
#29,780
Valoració
½ 3.6
Ressenyes
3
ISBN
22

Gràfics i taules