The Mississippi Delta and the world
Subtitle: the memoirs of David L. Cohn
By: edited by James C. Cobb.
Contributors: Cobb, James C. 1947-
Series: Library of Southern civilization
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Cohn, David L. 1896-1960.; Historians -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- Biography.; Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Biography.
Description: David L. Cohn was in essence a "cosmopolitan provincial," an observer who realized that the problems and circumstances of the Delta were at the same time unique and universal. A native of Greenville, he was educated at the University of Virginia and Yale University Law School. A brief but highly successful career in business allowed him to pursue his dream of being a writer.

He traveled widely but remained faithful to his Delta roots, counting among his close friends both William Alexander Percy and Hodding Carter. He was intensely interested in politics and served as speechwriter for Democratic party leaders, including Adlai Stevenson, George McGovern, and Lyndon Johnson. Lamenting the trend toward overspecialization, Cohn did not shrink from expressing his views on a wide array of topics: race and religion, free trade and internationalism, technology and culture, and materialism and matrimony, among others.

Southern to the marrow and an almost zealously patriotic American, he was also a Jew and he managed a harmonious integration of all three identities rather than the separation or suppression of any one.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.