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Synopsis
Peter Rutkoff's father died when Peter was only seven, so the memories are faint. In 1949, Harry Rutkoff succumbed to wartime wounds, having been machine-gunned on a battle field in France five years before. Peter's yearning was always for his father's voice as he says in his intro, he could never quite bring back the timbre of it, the sense of a soul there, speaking to him. But with his father's wartime stories, found years later, Peter had more to go on. They comprise a thread of Harry's experience and attentions, as slender as life can be. And in correspondence here is Peter's own story, rich remembrances of young eyes, finding the father that life would bring him.
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New York native Peter Rutkoff has been teaching at Kenyon College in Ohio since 1971, and is currently the Robert Oden Professor of American Studies. Peter took his bachelor's degree at St. Lawrence University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. From 1999-2001, Peter held the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished teaching chair at Kenyon. Together with William B. Scott of the Kenyon history department, Rutkoff developed the "North By South" course that serves as the senior seminar in American studies at Kenyon. With several colleagues, he helped develop the American Studies program, first in 1990 as an interdisciplinary program, and since 2002 as an interdisciplinary major. His current scholarly interests include African American cultural studies and the African-American migrations, which are the subject of his forthcoming book with Will Scott, Fly Away: The Great African American Migrations. His other books include New York Modern: The Arts and the City with William B. Scott (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball and Chicago, (McFarland, 2001) and Cooperstown Chronicles: Camp and Other Love Stories, Birch Brook Press, 2002.
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