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Look and Tremble; A Novel of West Florida by Jesse E. Bowden. ISBN # 0-942407-53-9. A 295 page hard cover book illustrated by the author. A lyrical, poetic portrait of small town west Florida now vanished. Full of flashbacks in a seamless narrative, unfolding with Civil War ancestors, a brutal 1934 lynching, the death of a snake-handling Georgia preacher, snakekillers, foxhunters, whiskeymakers; hard white men honestly befriending the blacks sharing their trapped lives. Evoking the verdant beauty of the Chipola River country, Jesse Earle Bowden resurrects a generation living by sweat and muscle when the measure of men was surviving bullet-and-blade meanness. The author is Pensacola News Journal Editor Emeritus Jesse Earle Bowden-prizewinning newspaper editor and cartoonist. Historian, book illustrator, author of nine books, Bowden-a pioneer of Pensacola's historical preservation movement-is recognized for inspiring the establishment of Gulf Islands National Seashore.
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