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Macon: Mercer University Press, 2018. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6". xvi, 304pp. Light rubbing, creasing, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Sticker to front and rear cover of jacket. Bound in gray cloth over boards with spine lettered in black. Corners of boards are gently bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: "When the bullets start flying, I hope the first one gets you." The man in the crosshairs was the author's father. It was an era of seismic social change in the American South. Four decades later, his son visited the National September 11 Museum. In a young firefighter's heroism on 9/11, the author glimpsed a truth about his father's lifelong devotion to duty, law, and justice. So he sat down and began writing him letters. THE BURDENS OF AENEAS is that series of letters--a fascinating collection of wide-ranging essays, invented conversations, reminiscences, interior monologues, and vivid descriptions of…
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- Title Burdens of Aeneas
- Author James C. Abbot Jr
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mercer University Press
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780881466577 / 0881466573
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6 x 1.1 in (23.62 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Lawyers
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018288503
- Dewey Decimal Code 929.209
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Hardback. New. When the bullets start flying, I hope the first one gets you."" The man in the crosshairs was the author's father. It was an era of seismic social change in the American South. Four decades later, his son visited the National September 11 Museum. In a young firefighter's heroism on 9/11, the author glimpsed a truth about his father's lifelong devotion to duty, law, and justice. So he sat down and began writing him letters. The Burdens of Aeneas is that series of letters-a fascinating collection of wide-ranging essays, invented conversations, reminiscences, interior monologues, and vivid descriptions of life in a vanishing America. Part memoir, part extended reflection on paternal duty and love, it breaks new ground in blending deeply personal writing with scholarly meditation on a masterwork of world literature. That masterpiece is Virgil's AENEID, second only to the Bible in influence upon the arts and culture of the West. Its epic hero suffers…
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