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"The purpose of this paper is to give a history and an analysis of the Southern Observer, a magazine devoted to book reviews of works by Southern authors, books about the South and articles of general interest to Southerners. The magazine which began January, 1953, and suspended publication December, 1956, was published by the Tennessee Book Company, Nashville, Tennessee"--Introduction.
