The Wasted Land

Johnson, Gerald W

The University of North Carolina Press, 1937

1st ed. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Stain on rear dj.  "There appears to be no middle ground for the Southeast, he says, 'between a high civilization and something indistinguishable from semi-barbarism,' between 'the horror portrayed in Tobacco Road,' and an agriculture developed far beyond that of other sections."  An account of sharecropping in North Carolina.