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An American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China
Clarence Adams
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Description for An American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China
Paperback. Throughout his life, Clarence Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage, and a commitment to learning - character traits often equated with the successful pursuit of the American Dream. This title talks about Adams. Editor(s): Adams, Della; Carlson, Lewis H. Num Pages: 176 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJ; BGA; JFFJ; JFSL3; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 263.
Throughout his life, Clarence Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage, and a commitment to learning - character traits often equated with the successful pursuit of the American Dream. Unfortunately, for an African American coming of age in the 1930s and 1940s, such attributes counted for little, especially in the South. Adams was a seventeen-year-old high school dropout in 1947 when he fled Memphis and the local police to join the U.S. Army. Three years later, after fighting in the Korean War in an all-black artillery unit that he believed to have been sacrificed to save white troops, he was captured ... Read more
Throughout his life, Clarence Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage, and a commitment to learning - character traits often equated with the successful pursuit of the American Dream. Unfortunately, for an African American coming of age in the 1930s and 1940s, such attributes counted for little, especially in the South. Adams was a seventeen-year-old high school dropout in 1947 when he fled Memphis and the local police to join the U.S. Army. Three years later, after fighting in the Korean War in an all-black artillery unit that he believed to have been sacrificed to save white troops, he was captured ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558495951
SKU
V9781558495951
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Ref
99-15
About Clarence Adams
CLARENCE ADAMS was born in Memphis in 1929 and died there in 1999. DELLA ADAMS, Clarence Adams's daughter, was born in China and lives in Memphis, where she is manager of the city's geographic information systems. LEWIS H. CARLSON is a retired professor of history at Western Michigan University. Among his eleven books is Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War: ... Read more
Reviews for An American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China
An important addition to the remarkably scant canon of African American memoirs about war, as well as a meaningful American memoir. - Jeff Loeb, editor of Memphis-Nam-Sweden: The Autobiography of a Black American Exile by Terry Whitmore ""Black participation in the Korean War is an extremely important, yet understudied topic. I expect that future scholars will make use of this ... Read more