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- <text id=91TT2271>
- <title>
- Oct. 14, 1991: Amreican Notes:Publishing
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 14, 1991 Jodie Foster:A Director Is Born
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 33
- American Notes
- PUBLISHING
- Little Tree, Big Lies?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The saga of Forrest Carter's book is a publisher's dream. The
- Education of Little Tree, a sensitive memoir of Carter's Native
- American childhood, was published in hard-cover in 1976 to
- little fanfare. Released in softcover by the University of New
- Mexico Press this year, the book now tops the New York Times
- paperback best-seller list, with 600,000 copies in print.
- </p>
- <p> But is the book a hoax? Yes, says Dan T. Carter, a history
- professor at Emory University. In an op-ed page piece in the New
- York Times last week, Carter charged that the late Forrest
- Carter was not a Cherokee at all. Instead, he was Asa Earl
- Carter, whom the professor describes as a "Ku Klux Klan
- terrorist, right-wing radio announcer, home-grown American
- fascist and anti-Semite."
- </p>
- <p> The allegation that the novelist and the racist were one
- and the same was swiftly disputed by the author's executor and
- Asa Earl Carter's brother Doug. The latter did acknowledge that
- Asa wrote speeches for Alabama's George Wallace, including the
- infamous lines "Segregation now. Segregation tomorrow.
- Segregation forever!" But old friends point out that Asa and
- Forrest Carter looked alike, used the same address and were the
- same age. Perhaps the book should be retitled The Mystery of
- Little Tree.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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