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Death of a Rebel - The Charlie Fenton Story (Paperback)
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Death of a Rebel - The Charlie Fenton Story (Paperback)
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Death of a Rebel tells the story of Charles Andrews Fenton
(1919-1960), a charismatic teacher, scholar, and writer who took
his own life by jumping from the top of the Washington Duke Hotel
in Durham, North Carolina. At the time he was apparently at the
peak of his career. He had written excellent books on Hemingway and
Stephen Vincent Benet, had three other books in press, and was
working on a new version of his novel about World War II (a 1945
account won the Doubleday Twentieth Century Fox award). He had
earned Guggenheim and ACLS grants. Students flocked to his courses.
He was widely regarded as the most popular professor at Duke.
Charlie Fenton's story is a compelling one, and takes on further
meaning in the context of the times. An individualist during the
notoriously conformist 1950s, he swam against the current, defying
authority and openly inviting controversy. This jaunty refusal to
accept received wisdom made him an appealing figure to many of his
students and colleagues. But it was a dangerous stance that did not
sit well with his superiors, and it cost him when his fortunes took
a turn for the worse in the spring and summer of 1960. Love and war
had a lot to do with his suicide as well. Charlie Fenton, who had
come down to Duke from Yale two years earlier with a promotion to
full professor, fell in love with one of his graduate students. His
wife, outraged, left and took their son Andy with her. The scandal
left him alone and a social pariah around campus. Then he suffered
one of his bouts of depression. Usually these periods were
triggered by trauma, most of it derived from his service as a tail
gunner with the RAF bomber command in the summer and fall of 1942.
In the past he'd always been able to shake free of his despondency.
This time he was overcome by psychological pain deriving from loss:
of wife and family, of public admiration, of companionship, and
worst of all, of self-regard. The book recounts Fenton's last days
in vivid detail. In writing it, Donaldson had the assistance of
family members, of his devoted students, and even - at a painful
distance - of the woman he fell in love with fifty years ago. They
all share an abiding sense of what might have been, and a deep
regret that he could not go on to inspire the uncounted students
who would never get to know and admire and learn from him.
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