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April 17, 2019

“In Rufus, Paul Brown traces Agee’s ancestry, discusses his childhood in Knoxville, the death of his father, and his roots in East Tennessee.”

-From the Publisher

From Calvin to Mao and Beyond: A Memoir

By Edgar A. Porter
St. Andrews University Press
285 pages
$19.99

“[Porter’s memoir] explains for future generations how his own Boomer generation evolved through struggles against racism, the Vietnam War, and myriad forms of oppression, both at home and internationally. I believe the book will be an important resource for future scholars interested in the social and political events of the mid to late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.”

~ John Lawson, Professor of English (retired), Robert Morris University

Rufus: James Agee in Tennessee