TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Lockridge family histories: looking for the raintree
JO  - Rethinking History
A1  - Sandweiss, E.
SP  - 103
EP  - 119
VL  - 21
IS  - 1
N2  - Novelist Ross Lockridge, Jr., killed himself months after the publication of his highly publicized novel, Raintree County. Why? This article seeks an answer in the writer's conflicted relationship to History: of his country, of his family (including his father, the best-known historian in his home state of Indiana), of his own grand ambitions. Lockridge had crafted a fictional hero, Johnny Shawnessy, who sought to 'hear the words before the words become History.' For the writer himself-and, subsequently, for his children, who carry on the family quest to reveal historical truth-History has proved a harder burden to overcome. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1364-2529
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2016.1270564
ID  - ref1
ER  -