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Title: The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 by Kari Frederickson ISBN: 0-8078-4910-3 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: 26 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Definitive work on the subject
Comment: Kari Frederickson's analysis of the Dixiecrat movement and their influence on Southern (and American) politics is an important volume, and will likely be the definitive work on the subject. The author charts the course of southern dissatisfaction with the national Democratic Party beginning in the 1930s, culminating in the "critical election" of 1948 when the Dixiecrats challenged President Truman.
What differs in this volume is the detail given to the Dixiecrat Party and J. Strom Thurmond and Fielding Wright, the party's candidates for president and vice-president, respecitively. As a result, we not only gain a better understanding of the Dixiecrats and why the party won the votes of only four southern states, but also how this pivotal event was the beginning of the end for the one-party South. Recommended for those interested in American political history and a must read for historians and students of the American South.
Rating: 5
Summary: GOOD READ THAT ILLUMINATES AMERICAN POLITICS TODAY
Comment: Frederickson furnishes the historical background necessary to understand the political history of the South--and the nation--for the past half century. The Dixiecrats, who bolted the Democratic Party in 1948 out of their opposition to the notion of racial equality, only won four states in their effort to elect Strom Thurmond. But their reactionary stance would eventually reach a wider public frightened by the integration of public schools, fair housing laws, and federal protection of citizenship rights. The campaign marks the beginning of the white South's flight from the New Deal coalition. Like Strom Thurmond himself, a lightning rod figure in this excellent book, the heirs of these segregationist rebels become Republicans in 1964 and 1968, and bring about the two-party South. The future of the region was foretold in the white supremacist revolt of 1948, and is retold here with clarity, grace, balance, and style. A fine piece of historical research and writing that illuminate American politics today.
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Title: The Rise of Southern Republicans : by Earl Black, Merle Black ISBN: 0674012488 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Dixie Rising: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture by Peter Applebome ISBN: 0156005506 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s by Pete Daniel ISBN: 0807848484 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Ol' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond by Jack Bass, Marilyn W. Thompson ISBN: 1570035148 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Stories of Scottsboro by James E. Goodman ISBN: 0679761594 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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