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16 Jul 2015, 5:34 am
"The particular kind of racial rhetoric that Atticus embraces (and that he and Jean Louise are careful to distinguish from low-rent, white-trash bigotry) is a complex and, in its own estimation, 'liberal' ideology: there is no contradiction between Atticus defending an innocent black man accused of rape in 'Mockingbird' and Atticus mistrusting civil rights twenty years later. [read post]
15 Jul 2015, 2:29 pm
With the controversy surrounding Go Set a Watchman, I thought of my late colleague Monroe Freedman, who critiqued Atticus Finch long before the new Harper Lee book was published. [read post]
15 Jul 2015, 9:25 am
The DJ (in Legal Profession Confronts the Transformation of Atticus Finch) quotes Judge Trott: "I was hugely dismayed. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 5:50 am
And so we're primed to see Atticus in even God-like terms than before. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 4:31 am
But a bigoted Atticus Finch? [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 2:56 pm
The world is eagerly awaiting Harper Lee's new novel -- and I hope to be up at midnight tonight to start reading it. [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 10:43 am
Why nobody should care if Harper Lee made Atticus Finch racist now. [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 8:22 am
In Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman, set twenty years after To Kill A Mockingbird, Jean Louise Finch (formerly Scout), now in her late 20s, tells us that her father Atticus is a racist. [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 6:23 am
Michiko Kakutani reveals in her NYT review of "Go Set a Watchman," discussed in an earlier post, where I wonder about the discussion Harper Lee had with her publishers that led to the rewrite of the story, making Atticus Finch an idealize father and lawyer.Let me guess, Lee and/or her publishers said Americans are still in their childhood as a people. [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 5:18 am
Those who have been most interested in getting their hands on another Harper Lee book may feel that the book they are getting is much worse than no book at all, because it takes away what they most loved about "Mockingbird," that fine figure of a man, Atticus Finch.10. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 6:01 am
Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. [read post]
24 Jun 2015, 1:00 am
Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. [read post]
14 Feb 2015, 3:18 pm
She came across the manuscript and realized that it was not a version of To Kill a Mockingbird, but rather a narrative about Scout and her father Atticus Finch 20 years later. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 12:08 pm
— Instapundit.com (@instapundit) December 2, 2014But read this 1999 law review article by Steven Lubet:'Reconstructing Atticus Finch' is a reexamination of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 1:29 pm
She later became the oldest person still practicing law in Alabama in 2012 and didn't retire until she turned 100.The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which was originally entitled Atticus, took Harper Lee several years to write and was published in 1960. [read post]
18 Sep 2014, 1:05 am
Selections include passages from works such as Kafka’s The Trial, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Richard Wright’s Native Son, David Mamet’s The Verdict, J’accuse by Emile Zola, and much more, including of course, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. [read post]
13 Jun 2014, 8:05 am
” Atticus responds, “[m]ost people are, Scout, when you finally see them. [read post]
4 May 2014, 5:25 am
Next isHobie, who is as modest and honest as Atticus Finch and provides what ever grounding Theo can accept. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 3:12 pm
Typically, Phelps and Banks—who have become close friends—try to have Atticus Finch Day on Harper Lee’s April 28 birthday. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 10:57 am
John Raley’s metered persistence exemplifies the moral courage depicted by Atticus Finch, the attorney in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird.The case led to Governor of Texas Rick Perry signing into law the Michael Morton Act designed to remove barriers for accessing evidence and more open discovery. [read post]
