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Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs: Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780817307066)
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xA series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the era
Originally published in 1845, Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs is a series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the era. The character, Simon Suggs, with his motto, "it is good to be shifty in a new country," fully incarnates a backwoods version of the national archetypes now know as the confidence man, the grafter, the professional flim-flam artist supremely skilled in the arts by which a man gets along in the world. This classic volume of good humor is set in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier life and politics.Author: Johnson Jones Hooper
ISBN-10: 0817307060
ISBN-13: 9780817307066
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Language: English
Published: 10/30/1993
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.88h x 5.48w x 0.80d
By Johnson Jones Hooper
xJohnson Jones Hooper (1815-1862), Alabama's most celebrated antebellum author, was a lawyer and newspaperman, and at the time of his death, was Secretary of the Confederate Congress. His other works include Dog and Gun (1856), reprinted by The University of Alabama Press in 1992.
Johanna Nicol Shields is professor emerita of History at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.Recently Viewed Products
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