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Hamlet53 · 04-21-2012, 08:07 PM

So I just by chance to happened to listen to this NPR program this evening:

The Artful Reinvention Of Klansman Asa Earl Carter

A more complete biography of Asa Carter shows just what a vehement and dangerous segregationist Carter was through the 1950s and 1960s.

Later in life, and after reinventing himself as Forrest Carter, Asa Carter wrote a number of popular books including The Rebel Outlaw Josey Wales (made into a well known film starring Clint Eastwood) and The Education of Little Tree (a purported memoir of Carter's childhood, but actually fictional).

That he would later write a book like The Rebel Outlaw Josey Wales makes sense. I have to wonder what was going through his mind when he wrote a book like The Education of Little Tree though. An attempt to forget his past or for redemption late in life?

04-21-2012, 08:07 PM	#1
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	Artful Reinvention of Asa Carter as author Forrest Carter. So I just by chance to happened to listen to this NPR program this evening: The Artful Reinvention Of Klansman Asa Earl Carter A more complete biography of Asa Carter shows just what a vehement and dangerous segregationist Carter was through the 1950s and 1960s. Later in life, and after reinventing himself as Forrest Carter, Asa Carter wrote a number of popular books including The Rebel Outlaw Josey Wales (made into a well known film starring Clint Eastwood) and The Education of Little Tree (a purported memoir of Carter's childhood, but actually fictional). That he would later write a book like The Rebel Outlaw Josey Wales makes sense. I have to wonder what was going through his mind when he wrote a book like The Education of Little Tree though. An attempt to forget his past or for redemption late in life?