Introduction: The Character of Erskine Caldwell -- 1. The Maverick Preacher's Wayward Son -- 2. The Making of a Writer -- 3. The Godforsaken South: The Fiction of the Thirties -- 4. Radical Activism: The Nonfiction of the Thirties -- 5. Changing South, Unchanging Writer: Caldwell in Decline - and in Resurgence -- 6. Caldwell's Achievement
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-208) and index