Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-399) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the fourth ghost -- Dangerous liaisons: the Nashville Agrarians -- Savagery on the frontier: W.J. Cash -- Pastoralism and extinction: William Alexander Percy -- Georgia on my mind: Lillian Smith -- You can't go to Germany, again: Thomas Wolfe -- Democracy's tall men: William Faulkner -- Something deathly in the air: Katherine Anne Porter -- Dispatches from the home front: Carson McCullers -- Pragmatism, idealism, responsibility: Robert Penn Warren -- Ravagers of the earth: Lillian Hellman -- Coda: the long shadow.
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