Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-257) and index.
Contents:
Huey Long and the New Deal -- How did the New Deal change the South? -- The modernization of the South : the lament for rural worlds lost -- Whatever happened to Roosevelt's new generation of southerners? -- Southerners who refused to sign the Southern Manifesto -- The white reaction to Brown : Arkansas, the Southern Manifesto, and massive resistance -- "Closet moderates" : why white liberals failed, 1940-1970 -- From defiance to moderation : South Carolina governors and racial change -- "When I took the oath of office, I took no vow of poverty" : race, corruption, and democracy in Louisiana, 1928-2000 -- The dilemma of biracial politics in the South since 1965 -- Southern New Dealers confront the world : Lyndon Johnson, Albert Gore, and Vietnam -- The anti-Gore campaign of 1970 (with Michael S. Martin)
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