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Atticus Finch: Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American Icon
by Joseph Crespino
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New York, NY: Basic Books (pub: May 8, 2018)
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Who was the real Atticus Finch?
The publication of
Go Set a Watchman
in 2015 forever changed how we think about Atticus Finch. Once seen as a paragon of decency, he was reduced to a small-town racist. How are we to understand this transformation?
In
Atticus Finch
, historian Joseph Crespino draws on exclusive sources to reveal how Harper Lee's father provided the central inspiration for each of her books. A lawyer and newspaperman, A. C. Lee was a principled opponent of mob rule, yet he was also a racial paternalist. Harper Lee created the Atticus of
Watchman
out of the ambivalence she felt toward white southerners like him. But when a militant segregationist movement arose that mocked his values, she revised the character in
To Kill a Mockingbird
to defend her father and to remind the South of its best traditions. A story of family and literature amid the upheavals of the twentieth century,
Atticus Finch
is essential to understanding Harper Lee, her novels, and her times.
JOSEPH CRESPINO
is the Jimmy Carter Professor of history at Emory University. He is the author of
In Search of Another Country
, winner of the 2008 Lillian Smith Book Award from the Southern Regional Council, and
Strom Thurmond's America
. He lives in Decatur, Georgia.
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