Alias Simon Suggs ：The Life and Times of Johnson Jones Hooper ( Library Alabama Classics )

Publication subTitle ：The Life and Times of Johnson Jones Hooper

Publication series ：Library Alabama Classics

Author： William Stanley Hoole  

Publisher： University of Alabama Press‎

Publication year： 2008

E-ISBN: 9780817381974

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780817353612

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780817353629

Subject： K81 Biography;K82 China

Keyword： 传记

Language： ENG

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“When these words were written everybody had read or heard of Simon Suggs, the shifty man whose antics had been recorded in many a gusty tale of Alabama frontier life which had drawn laughter and applause from newspaper readers throughout the United States. And everybody, at least in Alabama in the 1850s, knew something about his creator, Johnson Jones Hooper. . . . The immortal Suggs, his alter ego, has kept his name alive and renewed its luster, in a biography that deserves almost unqualified praise. Dr. Hoole’s Alias Simon Suggs is a noteworthy achievement. . . . A milestone in contemporary Alabama scholarship, it will become a standard reference work on the literary and political scene [and] as a distinguished piece of biographical writing, skillfully organized and deftly presented.”—Alabama Review
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CONTENTS

Prologue

I “… people is more like hogs and dogs …”

II “… Yonder goes the chicken man!”

III “… good to be shifty in a new country …”

IV “… a rough road to travel …”

V “… dead–as dead as a mackerel …”

VI “… If Mr. Suggs is present …”

VII “… then, where shall we be?”

VIII “… at liberty, is this our birth month …”

IX “… If it be agreeable to the Convention …”

X “… through spits of rain and snow …”

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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