Word: postbellum
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Wiencek tracks the postbellum rise of the black Hairstons against the decline of their former masters, once among the largest slaveholding families in the South. The central narrative unravels the 150-year-old mystery of a lost child, a story as brutal and romantic as anything by Faulkner. CBS is turning the book into a mini-series, but there are enough remarkable tales here for 10. A moving storyteller, Wiencek largely resists the temptation to moralize. Not since Mary Chesnut's Civil War has nonfiction about the South been as compelling as fiction...
Since the setting is a splendid antebellum mansion, it lacks that faint, haunting perfume of defeat that ought always to cling to a work of Tennessee Williams. But perhaps the Deep South is not ante-or postbellum any more. T.E. Kalem
...postbellum parvenu, forged on steelmaking and railroads rather than magnolias and gentility, Birmingham dug in against the black demonstrators led by Martin Luther King Jr. Bull Connor, who really ran the city as public safety commissioner, personified entrenched white supremacy. In Birmingham's embattled spring of 1963, Connor coldly ordered his police and firemen to cut off black marches on downtown with fire hoses, police dogs and clubs. A series of bombings culminated one September morning in a blast that ripped open a black church, killing four small girls in Sunday-school class learning "the love that forgives...
Confederate Freebooter William Clarke Quantrill will raid again-and again & again-in Kansas Raiders (Universal-International), The Great Missouri Raid (Nat Holt), Quantrill's Raiders (Paramount). Confederate veterans are .due to turn up in the postbellum Wild West as, among other things, bandits (RKO's Best of the Bad Men) and railroad builders (Columbia's Santa Fe). In Nat Holt's Warpath, the formula gets a bold switch: a Civil War veteran (Edmond O'Brien) goes west, all right, but he's a Yankee...
...piece of the week's news was out of all proportion to the space given it in the daily newspapers. Brief des-patches told of the signing of an Anglo- German Commercial Treaty; few hinted that it was one of the most important events of this postbellum decade...