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	Tobacco Road (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia sharecroppers.
		The main character of the novel is Jeeter Lester, an ignorant and sinful man who is redeemed by his love of the land and his faith in the fertility and the promise of soil.
		On this sad note the novel concludes, as Jeeter and Ada sleep they are killed in the fire which spreads to their house, and which Jeeter created to burn off the hedge, in the hopes of being able to somehow gain enough credit to farm the land that spring.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tobacco_Road_(novel) (1184 words)

	@ugusta History: Local road remains testament to hard times
		Tobacco Road, five nondescript lanes of pavement connecting Fort Gordon's Gate 5 with Bush Field airport, was once a stretch of hard-packed sand linking Piedmont farmers with a small port on the Savannah River.
		In the process, Tobacco Road entered everyday usage in the language as a reference to the poorest of the poor and as an image of the South of the period.
		Caldwell's novel, the road was a 15-mile stretch across the sandhills, extending southeast to the Savannah River bluffs.
	chronicle.augusta.com /history/caldwell.html (1040 words)

	Tobacco Road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tobacco Road refers to the tobacco-producing area of North Carolina and is often used when referring to sports (particularly basketball) played among rival North Carolina universities.
		Wake Forest University is sometimes included in the group of Tobacco Road universities as well.
		While North Carolina has many other universities and colleges, the "Tobacco Road" reference is exclusively reserved for the four that are members of the ACC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tobacco_Road (338 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre
		Tobacco Road was named one of the Modern Library's 100 best novels of the twentieth century, and God's Little Acre remains Caldwell's single most popular work, having sold more than 10 million copies.
		Tobacco Road, published by Charles Scribner and Sons in 1932, was Caldwell's third novel.
		Tobacco Road is a call to action, but it offers no easy answers and thus has generated intense debate both in and out of the South.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-521 (1290 words)

	Features - The New Georgia Encyclopedia
		Her novel Jubilee, about the life of a Georgia slave girl before, during, and after the Civil War, is based on stories Walker was told as a young girl about her own great-grandmother, Elvira Dozier Ware.
		The novel's many qualities were obscured by the uproar surrounding the film, and by criticism that it unfairly maligned north Georgia highlanders.
		Few novels begin with a more singular voice: in her opening letters to God, Celie speaks for the voiceless and dispossessed, and in the course of the novel develops her own voice and identity.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Features.jsp?id=s-47&pid=s-51 (2024 words)

	Tobacco Road
		Tobacco Road : Duke, Carolina, N.C. State, Wake Forest, and the History of the Most Intense Backyard Rivalries in Sports
		Trouble on Tobacco Road: what affects growers affects their communities as well.(includes related article on the history of tobacco farming) : An article from: Planning
		From Tobacco Road to Route 66: The southern poor white in fiction
	www.veryhappening.com /things/tobacco_road (126 words)

	NPR: Tobacco Documents All Things Considered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Students' understanding of the risks of tobacco use is explored as cancer victims, speaking with the aid of amplifiers held to their throats, attest to the addictive nature of all forms of tobacco, while an individual who lost half his jaw to cancer gives personal testimony that chewing tobacco and cigarettes are equally deadly.
		The tobacco executives discuss the importance of keeping nicotine levels high, as their own research proves it is addictive and essential for maintaining "loyal" customers.
		Problems of tobacco in the workplace are presented and "before and after" blood test show high levels of carbon monoxide (CO) among workers in a bingo hall.
	www.tobacco.org /Resources/tob_movies.html (5118 words)

	Whither Caldwell? - Liza Mundy
		Caldwell, who died this past spring at the age of eighty-four, was, remember, the writer who introduced "tobacco road" to the world, immortalizing it in 1932 as the title of his first full-fledged novel.
		Since then "tobacco road" has become a virtual synonym for poverty, grim destitution, and even depravity among the poor of the Deep South.
		With Tobacco Road and the novels that followed, Caldwell introduced a "new American" to the literary world and the nation in general.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1987/november/Sa13098.htm (234 words)

	Eating Well: Cigar Cuisine Puzzles Health Experts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tobacco is a hot-button issue, and scientists who have spent much of their lives trying to get people to stop smoking see red when another way of consuming it is suggested.
		But they warn that even occasional consumption of food containing tobacco leaves or infused with tobacco could make some people sick to their stomachs and, though the chances are remote, could possibly addict or readdict others.
		Eating tobacco is different from using chewing tobacco, although the latter makes many people sick to their stomachs when they chew it for the first time, Dr. Slade said.
	www.azstarnet.com /nonprofit/fcp/n_013101.htm (776 words)

	Tolls on Tobacco Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He was the first lawyer to lead a state fight against the tobacco industry, and he now represents 29 states.
		He helped with the defection of the tobacco industry's most prominent defectors, Merrell Williams and Jeffrey Wigand, who is the subject of an upcoming movie starring Al Pacino.
		(The tobacco companies were shut out, and later lost what they were getting in the deal--immunity from lawsuits--when they left the table in April.) Scruggs swears he hasn't collaborated with his brother-in-law Lott--though he acknowledges once using Lott's fax machine and phone.
	www.tobacco.org /News/980622cooper.html (1329 words)

	MTV.com \| Movies \| Erskine Caldwell \| Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Renowned as the author of Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, both of which were among the early huge sellers in the new and burgeoning field of paperback books in the 1940s, he was also reviled in many circles for those same books and their risqué content.
		Caldwell's two novels laid bare the shape, the depth, and even the smell of that poverty in a way that no prior literary work ever had; sections of both books were shocking, other parts were funny, and others were sad, while still others were downright titillating in their depiction of raw lust and sexuality.
		John Ford's version of Tobacco Road hasn't been seen since the 1960s, but the film of God's Little Acre has been re-released in uncut form by Image Entertainment, and the book versions of each remain in print some seven decades after their original publication.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/166478/bio.jhtml (1038 words)

	UVa Library Exhibit: American Theatre
		The popularity of the novel in the nineteenth century, especially the historical and romantic novel, provided the theatre with a unique set of characters who jumped from the written page directly onto the boards of the stage.
		In 1932, Southern novelist Erskine Caldwell wrote the provocative novel Tobacco Road, which depicted the underbelly of the 1930s rural South-the poverty and the physical and emotional starvation.
		Tobacco Road, A Three Act Play by Jack Kirkland, from the Novel by Erskine Caldwell.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /small/exhibits/theatre/idea.html (1140 words)

	Amazon.com: Tobacco Road: Books: Erskine Caldwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tobacco Road documents the last days in the lives of Jeeter and Ada Lester, poverty-stricken and permanently befuddled sharecroppers living in rural Georgia during the Great Depression.
		Erskine Caldwell's "Tobacco Road" is a depressing diatribe describing the plight of the Lester family living in Depression era southwestern Georgia.
		Tobacco Road must be one of the funniest and yet heart breaking American fiction I have ever read.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/082031661X?v=glance (2681 words)

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		The Lesters oriented by the lazy, procrastinating Jeeter are a group of unimproved poor, uneducated and corrupt sharecroppers absolute in a squalid, crumbling shack on onshore that was once a fecund family tobacco plantation.
		In the middle and south Georgia counties around Wrens, GA, the area depicted in TOBACCO ROAD, Caldwell's is a name that is still not mentioned in polite company.
		Novels like this one and GOD'S LITTLE ACRE, also by Caldwell, reenforced a prejudiced opinion of this area of the country that is still held by many.
	www.myfinanceaid.com /tobacco-road,082031661X_i.htm (1308 words)

	AGBIOS :: HOME ::
		UPPER MARLBORO - The tobacco thriving here on the University of Maryland's research farm looks like the plant that dominated state agriculture for centuries, the leaves mint green, fuzzy to the touch, long and wide as the blades of a ceiling fan.
		The hope, said Hodge, is to restore the economic impact of Maryland tobacco, which in 1997 accounted for two-thirds of Southern Maryland's farm income while growing on less than 5 percent of farmland in those five counties.
		Tobacco's steady decline here beginning in the 1980s had much to do with the difficulty of finding labor to raise it.
	www.agbios.com /main.php?action=ShowNewsItem&id=6707 (1311 words)

	road tobacco information sources
		Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell "Lov BENSEY trudged homeward through the deep white sand of the gully-washed tobacco road with a sack of winter turnips on his back..." (more) SIPs: powerful sinful...
		Paving Tobacco Road A Century of Progress by the North Carolina Department of Transportation With rare historic photographs and unique maps, Paving Tobacco Road captures the decade-by-decade drama of...
		Tobacco Road Address: 626 S Miami Ave Tobacco Road (Miami) FL, 33130 Description: Tobacco Road holds the oldest existing liquor license in the history of Dade County.
	www.jewelrydiamondgift.com /tobacco/roadtobacco (928 words)

	Tabacco Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The tobacco road is an old country road that was built in plantation times of the old south.
		These roads were used to roll drums of tobacco to the market.
		During the night the old farmhouse caught on fire and blazed through the night and burned straight to the ground killing both of them in the fire.
	www.valdosta.edu /~lsparker/tobaccoroad.htm (707 words)

	Alibris: Tobacco
		It is the story of the Lesters, a family of destitute white sharecroppers debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness.
		Set in the tobacco country of North Carolina in 1937, the story is told through the voice of Roxy Walston, the 20-year-old daughter of the town undertaker, wife of a struggling tobacco farmer, and mother of a two-year-old....
		This account of the historic class-action suit which resulted in a ruling against the large tobacco companies estimated to exceed billions of dollars, chronicles the crusade by the lawyers for the plaintiffs, the multi-million-dollar defense, and the experts on both sides who put their careers on the line.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Tobacco (898 words)

	Tobacco-Related Internet Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Arents Tobacco Collection, the product of over sixty years of collecting by George Arents, is the largest and most comprehensive collection in the world on the history, literature, and lore of tobacco.
		Grown on 10,000 farm quotas in southern Ohio, this celebration of the golden crop recognizes tobacco growers, their families, and the communities in which it is grown.
		This web-site is the home of tobacco industry documents relating to their operations in Canada, and is a specialty site for documents from BAT (British America Tobacco) and its subsidiaries obtained from BAT's document depository in Guildford, near London, England.
	www.tobacco.org /Resources/tobsites.html (10244 words)

	Erskine Caldwell -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Fame arrived with Tobacco Road (1932), a highly controversial novel whose title grew to be a byword for rural squalor and degradation.
		A dramatization of Tobacco Road by Jack Kirkland in 1934 ran for seven and a half years on the New York stage and became a staple of the American theatre, with its tragicomic picture of Jeeter Lester, his family, and his neighbours.
		Her 1981 novel Answer as a Man made the New York Times best-seller list before its official publication date, and many of her books were dramatized for motion pictures or television.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9018647 (880 words)

	Erskine Caldwell Articles
		Erskine Caldwell wrote more than 50 books including "Tobacco Road," "God's Little Acre" and "Journeyman." He was named to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was honored by the governments of France and Bulgaria for his writing.
		In such works as "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre," "Caldwell sought to capture this spirit as it lived in the often ignored lives of the rural Southern poor," Hulett said.
		In "Tobacco Road," Caldwell turned to the images of poverty gleaned from his childhood as a minister's son traveling from place to place across the South.
	www.newnan.com /ec/ecarticles.html (3941 words)

	The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
		I lived in the same neighborhood as the Tobacco Road fraternity and I went to school in the area.
		But those first two books, ''Tobacco Road'' published in 1932 and ''God's Little Acre'' in 1933, are the ones that established his reputation.
		He also earned a lot of money from Darryl Zanuck's movie version of ''Tobacco Road,'' but he would just as soon forget that; he describes the result as ''one of the most conspicuous failures in cinematic history'' because of its falsified happy ending.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/books/072098caldwell-tobacco.html (1279 words)

	The Nashville Teens - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		They were distinguished from most of the others by scoring a memorable and serious hit, "Tobacco Road." This put them on the map internationally (even getting them into an American jukebox movie, Beach Ball, that also featured the Supremes) before they gradually faded away in popularity.
		After the band was signed to English Decca in 1964, Most became their producer for their debut single, "Tobacco Road," released in the summer of 1964, which charted high on both sides of the Atlantic.
		John Hawken was part of the lineup of the original Renaissance, spun out of the psychedelic-oriented half of the Yardbirds' original membership, and later passed through the lineups of Vinegar Joe and the Strawbs.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,472194,00.html (868 words)

	Route 66 quiz -- free game
		A classic 1939 novel proclaimed U.S. highway 66 the "Mother Road".
		Combined with the 1940 film recreation of the novel, it immortalized Route 66 in the American consciousness.
		In the year the road was commissioned, only 800 miles were paved.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=104625&origin= (199 words)

	GayLinkNews.com - JUSTIN TANNER directs "TOBACCO ROAD" - Opens September 3rd at THIRD STAGE! - DEMAND PR DAVID ELZER ...
		TOBACCO ROAD will open on Saturday, September 3 at 8:00pm and run for five weeks through Sunday, October 9 at the Third Stage Theatre, 2811 W. Magnolia Blvd. in Burbank.
		TOBACCO ROAD is set in the squalid front yard of a tumble down house located somewhere in a red state, where Jeeter and Ada Lester struggle to stay on top of an American Dream that can no longer support them.
		TOBACCO ROAD will open on Saturday, September 3 and run through Sunday, October 9.
	www.gaylinknews.com /prdetail.cfm?id=6930 (646 words)

	Erskine Caldwell - Britannica Concise
		Fame arrived with Tobacco Road (1932), a controversial novel whose title became a byword for rural squalor; adapted as a play, it ran more than seven years on Broadway.
		Like his other novels and stories about the rural Southern poor, they mix violence and sex in grotesque tragicomedy.
		Caldwell, Erskine - American author whose unadorned novels and stories about the rural poor of the American South mix violence and sex in grotesque tragicomedy.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9359509 (420 words)

	Georgia Biography -- Authors
		Dickey, most well known for his novel "Deliverance" and its popular film adaptation, was also a noted poet and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		Lanier is seen primarily as a poet, although he wrote a novel and several volumes of criticism and was an accomplished professional flutist.
		McCullers's novels are consistently ranked among the finest of modern southern literature.
	dlg.galileo.usg.edu /GeorgiaReferenceShelf/BiographyAuthors.html (487 words)

	MSN Encarta - Erskine Caldwell
		He was born in White Oak, Georgia, and educated at the universities of Virginia and Pennsylvania.
		Dramatized in 1933, the play had a seven-year run on Broadway; it was also made into a successful film in 1940.
		Caldwell's other works include the novel God's Little Acre (1933); You Have Seen Their Faces (1937), an illustrated documentary of the rural South which he wrote in collaboration with his wife, American photographer Margaret Bourke-White; and the autobiographical books Call It Experience (1951) and With All My Might (1987).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559974/Caldwell_Erskine_Preston.html (244 words)

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