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I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century
I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century
I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century
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I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century

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John Andrew Rice's autobiography, first published to critical acclaim in 1942, is a remarkable tour through late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. When the book was suppressed by the publisher soon after its appearance because of legal threats by a college president described in the book, the nation lost a rich first-person historical account of race and class relations during a critical period—not only during the days of Rice's youth, but at the dawn of the civil rights movement.

I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century begins with Rice's childhood on a South Carolina plantation during the post-Reconstruction era. Later Rice moved to Great Britain when he won a Rhodes scholarship, then to the University of Nebraska to accept a professorship. In 1933 he founded Black Mountain College, a legendary progressive college in North Carolina that uniquely combined creative arts, liberal education, self-government, and a work program.

Rice's observations of social and working conditions in the Jim Crow South, his chronicle of his own fading Southern aristocratic family, including its famous politicians, and his acerbic portraits of education bureaucrats are memorable and make this book a resource for scholars and a pleasure for lay readers. Historical facts are leavened with wit and insight; black-white relations are recounted with relentless and unsentimental discernment. Rice combines a sociologist's eye with a dramatist's flair in a unique voice.

This Southern Classics edition includes a new intro-duction by Mark Bauerlein and an afterword by Rice's grandson William Craig Rice, exposing a new generation of readers to Rice's incisive commentaries on the American South before the 1960s and to the work of a powerful prose stylist.

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Release dateAug 14, 2014
ISBN9781611174373
I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century
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John Andrew Rice

John Andrew Rice (1888–1968), born at Tanglewood Plantation near Lynchburg, South Carolina, was an early Rhodes scholar and the visionary founder of Black Mountain College, a progressive institution that attracted pioneering artists and intellectuals from Europe and United States from its opening in 1933 to its closing in 1957.

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