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- Death of a Rebel : the Charlie Fenton Story
- Publication Name
- Death of a Rebel
- Title
- Death of a Rebel
- Subtitle
- The Charlie Fenton Story
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1611476240
- EAN
- 9781611476248
- ISBN
- 9781611476248
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Literary, Educators, Military
- Release Year
- 2013
- Release Date
- 31/05/2013
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
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- Publication Year
- 2013
- Number of Pages
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Death of a Rebel tells the story of Charles Andrews Fenton (1919-1960), a charismatic teacher, scholar, and writer who took his own life by jumping from the top of the Washington Duke Hotel in Durham, North Carolina. At the time he was apparently at the peak of his career. He had written excellent books on Hemingway and Stephen Vincent Benét, had three other books in press, and was working on a new version of his novel about World War II (a 1945 account won the Doubleday Twentieth Century Fox award). He had earned Guggenheim and ACLS grants. Students flocked to his courses. He was widely regarded as the most popular professor at Duke. Charlie Fenton's story is a compelling one, and takes on further meaning in the context of the times. An individualist during the notoriously conformist 1950s, he swam against the current, defying authority and openly inviting controversy. This jaunty refusal to accept received wisdom made him an appealing figure to many of his students and colleagues. But it was a dangerous stance that did not sit well with his superiors, and it cost him when his fortunes took a turn for the worse in the spring and summer of 1960. Love and war had a lot to do with his suicide as well. Charlie Fenton, who had come down to Duke from Yale two years earlier with a promotion to full professor, fell in love with one of his graduate students. His wife, outraged, left and took their son Andy with her. The scandal left him alone and a social pariah around campus. Then he suffered one of his bouts of depression. Usually these periods were triggered by trauma, most of it derived from his service as a tail gunner with the RAF bomber command in the summer and fall of 1942. In the past he'd always been able to shake free of his despondency. This time he was overcome by psychological pain deriving from loss: of wife and family, of public admiration, of companionship, and worst of all, of self-regard. The book recounts Fenton's last days in vivid detail. In writing it, Donaldson had the assistance of family members, of his devoted students, and even - at a painful distance - of the woman he fell in love with fifty years ago. They all share an abiding sense of what might have been, and a deep regret that he could not go on to inspire the uncounted students who would never get to know and admire and learn from him.
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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1611476240
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9781611476248
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Book Title
Death of a Rebel : the Charlie Fenton Story
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Educators, Military
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
198 Pages
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8.9in
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0.5in
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6in
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11.2 Oz
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Scott Donaldson's book on Charlie Fenton is fine indeed, incisive, well-written, compassionate, and also 'tough' where it deserves to be: Charlie himself took no prisoners, and I think he would have approved., The book is a labor of love, testifying to "what was forfeited with Charlie Fenton's tragic death"- tragic not merely because his work, admirable as it was, did not reach its apogee, but also because so many students were robbed of this rare spirit's charismatic teaching, denied the spark of an idealism so highly charges that it changes lives, including that of the author himself, one of the few remaining witnesses to Fenton in his prime. This is Donaldson's own last will and testament to the Age of the Book, issued from beyond the cusp of the electronic revolution that has laid it to rest forever To write an honest biography, but also an artful one, Donaldson has adopted the tactic of purposefully exposing his own dishonestly. Death of a Rebel is a crowning achievement for a biographer who has qualified again and again as one of our best. Had Fenton lived, he surely would have retracted his lacerating judgment. We can be certain that it has not been permanently dislodged from Donaldson's mind., The book is a labor of love, testifying to "what was forfeited with Charlie Fenton's tragic death"- tragic not merely because his work, admirable as it was, did not reach its apogee, but also because so many students were robbed of this rare spirit's charismatic teaching, denied the spark of an idealism so highly charges that it changes lives, including that of the author himself, one of the few remaining witnesses to Fenton in his prime. This is Donaldson's own last will and testament to the Age of the Book, issued from beyond the cusp of the electronic revolution that has laid it to rest foreverTo write an honest biography, but also an artful one, Donaldson has adopted the tactic of purposefully exposing his own dishonestly. Death of a Rebel is a crowning achievement for a biographer who has qualified again and again as one of our best. Had Fenton lived, he surely would have retracted his lacerating judgment. We can be certain that it has not been permanently dislodged from Donaldson's mind., Death of a Rebel provides an incredibly sharp and detailed picture of a very specific era -- 1945-1960 -- through the prism of Charlie Fenton's floundering and eventual flowering. Anyone who lived during that period will recognize the freshness of that picture., Bringing to the narrative of Fenton's life and career the same effective blend of indefatigable archival skills and the gift of telling a compelling story in an engaging manner that he has displayed in his earlier work. By combing through the university's teaching evaluations and conducting interviews with many of Fenton's students, Donaldson has amassed a great deal of eloquent and specific testimony to Fenton's skill and popularity in the classroom What is best about Death of a Rebel is that it gives us, convincingly and in depth, all the available, mostly first-hand, evidence we need to determine an answer while at the same time permitting the reader to draw his own conclusions. That this conclusion, whatever it may be, will be securely based on reliable evidence clearly and objectively presented, is the greatest tribute one can pay to this fine biography. In the end, while Charlie Fenton's life was extraordinary in many respects, Donaldson's book makes clear that we definitively assess and simplify any life at our peril., This fascinating biography of the maverick scholar Charlie Fenton proves that the groves of academe, during the 1950s, were much as they are today--a dangerous place for anyone who won't follow the rules., Donaldson's account should appeal to many teachers, capturing well how colleagues, administrators, and students can both aid and impede a careerDonaldson's biography pays a debt of gratitude to a professor who inspired him in the classroom, guided him through a senior thesis, and exemplified a career he could emulate, but mystified him by committing suicide at forty years of age., Writing a successful biography demands a close and compassionate identification between author and subject. Biography exacts a staggering cost in time and energy: extensive and expensive travel; toil in archival excavation; potentially fraught interviews with sources, some of them reluctant or hostile or even duplicitous.His objective in Death of a Rebel is, frankly, personal. The book is a labor of love, testifying to 'what was forfeited with Charlie Fenton's tragic death.'In paying homage to a man who affected him so profoundly, Donaldson also affirms the passion for the literature itself that both of them shared.Donaldson's purpose is accomplished by radical narrative means. Death of a Rebel is a biography with a remarkably revealing autobiographical dimension. The author stands as close to the reader as to the subject--making him or her a guest, not just an eavesdropping observer, at the wine-laced lunch he fantasizes at some typical mla convention. Readers are placed around the same table as the imagined participants.To tell this story, Donaldson casts a backward look over his own bright college years, when, as a member of Yale's class of 1950, he met Fenton as an instructor in Daily Themes: a course, first offered in 1907, designed as a Parris Island boot camp for the few, the proud, the Marine Corps of aspiring writers.To write an honest biography, but also an artful one, Donaldson has adopted the tactic of purposefully exposing his own dishonesty. By putting his own flawed humanity on the line along with Fenton's, Donaldson asserts that student and teacher have become as one in their capacity as professors in the root sense, and that they are correctly to be judged in reference to each other by the same rigorous standards.Death of a Rebel is a crowning achievement for a biographer who has qualified again and again as one of our best., This fascinating biography of the maverick scholar Charlie Fenton proves that the groves of academe, during the 1950s, were much as they are today--a dangerous place for anyone who won't follow the rules., Donaldson has certainly justified Fenton's support; he has become one of our leading critics and biographers of twentieth-century American literature. His books and essays all display a welcome and rare combination of meticulous research and readable prose...he "owed to his memory to tell the story as well as I could." This he has certainly done, bringing to the narrative of Fenton's life and career the same effective blend of indefatigable archival skills and the gift of telling a compelling story in an engaging manner that he has displayed in his earlier work.Donaldson's chapter on Fenton's World War II service is one of the most compelling sections of his book. Deftly and expertly drawing on histories of the war and on extensive quotations from Fenton's correspondence with his parents and from the highly autobiographical fiction he wrote about his war experiences, he paints a graphic first-hand portrait of a military career filled with missteps and self-inflicted punishmentsBy combing through the university's teaching evaluations and conducting interviews with many of Fenton's students, Donaldson has amassed a great deal of eloquent and specific testimony to Fenton's skillAgain because Donaldson has mined the primary documents so thoroughly, he is able to quote from and paraphrase extensively letters exchanged between the two (Hemingway), as well as correspondence with others in which Hemingway discussed Fenton's project. The result is not only a highly authentic account of a significant period in Fenton's life but also a valuable stand-alone essay on the vicissitudes of a critic trying to work with a living writer on a study of his work.While Donaldson does list various possible causes, what is best about Death of a Rebel is that it gives us, convincingly and in depth, all the available, mostly first-hand, evidence we need to determine an answer while at the same time permitting the reader to draw his own conclusions. That this conclusion, whatever it may be, will be securely based on reliable evidence clearly and objectively presented, is the greatest tribute one can pay to this fine biography. In the end, while Charlie Fenton's life was extraordinary in many respects, Donaldson's book makes clear that we definitively assess and simplify any life at our peril., Donaldson has certainly justified Fenton's support; he has become one of our leading critics and biographers of twentieth-century American literature. His books and essays all display a welcome and rare combination of meticulous research and readable prose ...he "owed to his memory to tell the story as well as I could." This he has certainly done, bringing to the narrative of Fenton's life and career the same effective blend of indefatigable archival skills and the gift of telling a compelling story in an engaging manner that he has displayed in his earlier work. Donaldson's chapter on Fenton's World War II service is one of the most compelling sections of his book. Deftly and expertly drawing on histories of the war and on extensive quotations from Fenton's correspondence with his parents and from the highly autobiographical fiction he wrote about his war experiences, he paints a graphic first-hand portrait of a military career filled with missteps and self-inflicted punishments By combing through the university's teaching evaluations and conducting interviews with many of Fenton's students, Donaldson has amassed a great deal of eloquent and specific testimony to Fenton's skill Again because Donaldson has mined the primary documents so thoroughly, he is able to quote from and paraphrase extensively letters exchanged between the two (Hemingway), as well as correspondence with others in which Hemingway discussed Fenton's project. The result is not only a highly authentic account of a significant period in Fenton's life but also a valuable stand-alone essay on the vicissitudes of a critic trying to work with a living writer on a study of his work. While Donaldson does list various possible causes, what is best about Death of a Rebel is that it gives us, convincingly and in depth, all the available, mostly first-hand, evidence we need to determine an answer while at the same time permitting the reader to draw his own conclusions. That this conclusion, whatever it may be, will be securely based on reliable evidence clearly and objectively presented, is the greatest tribute one can pay to this fine biography. In the end, while Charlie Fenton's life was extraordinary in many respects, Donaldson's book makes clear that we definitively assess and simplify any life at our peril., Bringing to the narrative of Fenton's life and career the same effective blend of indefatigable archival skills and the gift of telling a compelling story in an engaging manner that he has displayed in his earlier work.By combing through the university's teaching evaluations and conducting interviews with many of Fenton's students, Donaldson has amassed a great deal of eloquent and specific testimony to Fenton's skill and popularity in the classroomWhat is best about Death of a Rebel is that it gives us, convincingly and in depth, all the available, mostly first-hand, evidence we need to determine an answer while at the same time permitting the reader to draw his own conclusions. That this conclusion, whatever it may be, will be securely based on reliable evidence clearly and objectively presented, is the greatest tribute one can pay to this fine biography. In the end, while Charlie Fenton's life was extraordinary in many respects, Donaldson's book makes clear that we definitively assess and simplify any life at our peril., Donaldson's account should appeal to many teachers, capturing well how colleagues, administrators, and students can both aid and impede a career Donaldson's biography pays a debt of gratitude to a professor who inspired him in the classroom, guided him through a senior thesis, and exemplified a career he could emulate, but mystified him by committing suicide at forty years of age., Death of a Rebel provides an incredibly sharp and detailed picture of a very specific era -- 1945-1960 -- through the prism of Charlie Fenton's floundering and eventual flowering. Anyone who lived during that period will recognize the freshness of that picture., Writing a successful biography demands a close and compassionate identification between author and subject. Biography exacts a staggering cost in time and energy: extensive and expensive travel; toil in archival excavation; potentially fraught interviews with sources, some of them reluctant or hostile or even duplicitous. His objective in Death of a Rebel is, frankly, personal. The book is alabor of love, testifying to 'what wasforfeited with Charlie Fenton's tragicdeath.' In paying homage to a man who affected him so profoundly, Donaldson also affirms the passion for the literature itself that both of them shared. Donaldson's purpose is accomplished by radical narrative means. Death of a Rebel is a biography with a remarkably revealing autobiographical dimension. The author stands as close to the reader as to the subject--making him or her a guest, not just an eavesdropping observer, at the wine-laced lunch he fantasizes at some typical mla convention. Readers are placed around the same table as the imagined participants. To tell this story, Donaldson casts a backward look over his own bright college years, when, as a member of Yale's class of 1950, he met Fenton as an instructor in Daily Themes: a course, first offered in 1907, designed as a Parris Island boot camp for the few, the proud, the Marine Corps of aspiring writers. To write an honest biography, but also an artful one, Donaldson has adopted the tactic of purposefully exposing his own dishonesty. By putting his own flawed humanity on the line along with Fenton's, Donaldson asserts that student and teacher have become as one in their capacity as professors in the root sense, and that they are correctly to be judged in reference to each other by the same rigorous standards. Death of a Rebel is a crowning achievement for a biographer who has qualified again and again as one of our best.
Table of Content
Introduction First Sighting Bomber Boy The Young Academic Hemingway vs. Fenton Carving a Career A Different Planet Sailing through Air What Might Have Been Acknowledgments Notes on Sources A Charles A. Fenton Bibliography Other Works Consulted
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