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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789877103321

Autore

Donaldson Scott <1928-2020.>

Titolo

Death of a rebel [[electronic resource] ] : the Charlie Fenton story / / Scott Donaldson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-39402-2

9786613394026

1-61147-494-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

810.9

B

Soggetti

Biographers - United States

College teachers - United States

Authors, American - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-182) and index.

Nota di contenuto

First sighting -- Bomber boy -- The young academic -- Hemingway vs. Fenton -- Carving a career -- A different planet -- Sailing through air -- What might have been -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on sources -- A Charles A. Fenton bibliography -- Other works consulted.

Sommario/riassunto

Death of a Rebel tells the story of Charles Andrews Fenton (1919-1960), a charismaticteacher, 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 BeneĢt, 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 regard