Rare birds
Subtitle: an American family
By: Dan Bessie.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Bessie family; Burnett family; Bessie, Dan -- Family; Bessie, Alvah Cecil, 1904-
Description: "What does a writer do when he's got a family that includes a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten, the brains behind Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man, a trio of gay puppeteers, the world's leading birdwatcher, 1960s hippies, a Dutch stowaway who served in an all-black regiment during the American Civil War, and a convicted murderer? He tells their stories and secrets, illuminating 150 years of American life along the way."--BOOK JACKET.