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William Alexander Percy - The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker (Paperback)
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William Alexander Percy - The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker (Paperback)
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In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular
life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation
owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best
known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in
this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a
cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist.
We follow Percy as he travels from Mississippi around the globe
and, always, back again to the Delta. Wise's exploration brings
depth and new meaning to Percy's already compelling life story -
his prominent family's troubled history, his elite education and
subsequent soldiering in World War I, his civic leadership during
the Mississippi River flood of 1927, his mentoring of writers
Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, and the writing and publication of
his classic autobiography, Lanterns on the Levee. This biography
sets Percy's life and search for meaning in the context of his
history in the Deep South and his experiences in the gay male world
of the early twentieth century. In Wise's hands, these seemingly
disparate worlds become one.
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