Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction

by Hugh Davis Graham, Numan V. Bartley, Professor Numan Bartley

Book Overview

Originally published in 1975. This is a history of southern political life since the New Deal and World War II, encompassing a crucial epoch: an attempted Second Reconstruction of the South. The authors focus on the electoral response to candidates and issues. The authors contend that, despite the nationalizing and homogenizing forces that eroded much of the South's distinctiveness during the postwar years, the region's historical legacy perpetuated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080181667X
• ISBN13: 9780801816673
• Release Date: April 1975
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher