{"id":2781,"date":"2018-04-02T12:45:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T12:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2018-04-02T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T12:45:56","slug":"crespino-in-the-wall-street-journal-who-is-the-real-atticus-finch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2018\/04\/02\/crespino-in-the-wall-street-journal-who-is-the-real-atticus-finch\/","title":{"rendered":"Crespino in &#8216;The Wall Street Journal&#8217;: &#8220;Who Is the Real Atticus Finch?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/crespino-joseph.html\">Joseph Crespino<\/a>, Jimmy Carter Professor of History, wrote an article for\u00a0<em>T<\/em><em>he Wall Street Journal <\/em>entitled\u00a0&#8220;Who is the Real Atticus Finch?&#8221; The piece explores competing interpretations of Harper Lee&#8217;s protagonist as a champion of justice or racist in the context of an adaptation of\u00a0<em>To Kill a Mockingbird\u00a0<\/em>on Broadway. Crespino is the author of\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Atticus-Finch-Biography-Joseph-Crespino\/dp\/1541644948\"><em>Atticus Finch: The Biography \u2014 Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American Icon<\/em><\/a> (Basic Books, 2018).\u00a0 Read the full piece (paywall protected) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/who-is-the-real-atticus-finch-1521729187?mod=searchresults&amp;page=1&amp;pos=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Joseph Crespino, Jimmy Carter Professor of History, wrote an article for\u00a0The Wall Street Journal entitled\u00a0&#8220;Who is the Real Atticus Finch?&#8221; The piece explores competing interpretations of Harper Lee&#8217;s protagonist as a champion of justice or racist in the context of an adaptation of\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird\u00a0on Broadway. Crespino is the author of\u00a0 Atticus Finch: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-publications","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}