Word: afterword
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unvanquished, The Last Frontier, Conceived in Liberty, Citizen Tom Paine), Author Fast established a reputation for giving history a square deal. But readers whose knowledge of Reconstruction is confined to textbook tales of carpetbaggers and scalawags will be astounded by his new thesis. Anticipating disbelief, Fast declares in an afterword that the truth of his story is documented, but "the very memory was expunged" by powerful forces which "did not hold it to be a good thing for the American people to know...
...afterword on Wolfe and his working methods, Editor Aswell mentions, among other unpublished manuscripts, the novel K 19, in which Wolfe tried to dispose of his obsession for trains and which, greatly reduced, became the tremendous first section of Of Time and the River. He adds a ghostlike fact: The number of the Pullman which took Wolfe's family, on the same train with his dead body, back to Asheville...