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Jesse S. Crisler, Robert C. Leitz III, and Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932.(Book Review)

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From: African American Review
Date: 20040922
Author:Butler, Robert

Jesse S. Crisler, Robert C. Leitz III, and Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932. Palo Alto: Stanford UP, 2002. 368 pp. $65.00.

This volume complements the 1997 collection of Chesnutt's letters, "To Be an Author": Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905, edited by Joseph R. McElrath and Robert C. Leitz III. Whereas the first collection of letters concentrated on Chesnutt's most fruitful period as a writer, this book (edited as well by Jesse S. Crisler) deals with his least productive period, when he came to see his writing ...

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