How Long to Read Discovering the South

How Long Does it Take to Read Discovering the South?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 25 minutes to read Discovering the South by Jennifer Ritterhouse

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem," as President Franklin Roosevelt declared. It was also a battlefield on which forces for and against social change were starting to form. For a white southern liberal like Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, it was a fascinating moment to explore. Attuned to culture as well as politics, Daniels knew the true South lay somewhere between Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. On May 5, 1937, he set out to find it, driving thousands of miles in his trusty Plymouth and ultimately interviewing even Mitchell herself. In Discovering the South historian Jennifer Ritterhouse pieces together Daniels's unpublished notes from his tour along with his published writings and a wealth of archival evidence to put this one man's journey through a South in transition into a larger context. Daniels's well chosen itinerary brought him face to face with the full range of political and cultural possibilities in the South of the 1930s, from New Deal liberalism and social planning in the Tennessee Valley Authority, to Communist agitation in the Scottsboro case, to planters' and industrialists' reactionary worldview and repressive violence. The result is a lively narrative of black and white southerners fighting for and against democratic social change at the start of the nation's long civil rights era. For more information on this book, see www.discoveringthesouth.org.

How long is Discovering the South?

Discovering the South by Jennifer Ritterhouse is 382 pages long, and a total of 96,264 words.

This makes it 129% the length of the average book. It also has 118% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Discovering the South Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 46 minutes to read Discovering the South aloud.

What Reading Level is Discovering the South?

Discovering the South is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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