Teddy's Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars

by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton

Dr. Virginia Hamilton has long been admired for the prose styling of her academic publications and the vigor of her research. In Teddy's Child the respected historian chronicles her own lineage and discovers the commonalities that transcend the generations. Supplemented by images of family memorabilia, this scrapbook cum thesis explores foibles, virtues, singularities, and collective tendancies that constitute a heritage and help explain one generation to another.

201 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010