Cricket's Child, 1945-1955: How I Never Learned to Love the Bomb

Janice Saunders, a retired professor of history at Roanoke College, offers memories of her childhood in the Appalachian towns of Cricket, North Carolina, and Roanoke, Virginia, as the basis of "a social history" of family life, economic conditions, and racial attitudes from a perspective r...

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Published inJournal of Southern History Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 1134 - 1135
Main Author Dresser, Zachary W
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Houston Southern Historical Association 01.11.2009
Subjects
Attitudes
Children
Cold War
Nonfiction
Social history
Socioeconomic factors
Appalachia
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Summary:Janice Saunders, a retired professor of history at Roanoke College, offers memories of her childhood in the Appalachian towns of Cricket, North Carolina, and Roanoke, Virginia, as the basis of "a social history" of family life, economic conditions, and racial attitudes from a perspective representative of "the socioeconomic majority of the U.S. population in the mid-twentieth century" (p. vii).
ISSN:0022-4642
2325-6893