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New Deal/New South: An Anthony J. Badger Reader
Anthony J. Badger
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Description for New Deal/New South: An Anthony J. Badger Reader
Paperback. Contains twelve essays that examine how white liberal southern politicians who came to prominence in the New Deal and World War II handled the race issue when it became central to politics in the 1950s and 1960s. This book states that it was the southern business leaders and New South politicians who mediated the transition to desegregation. Num Pages: 320 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; JFFJ; JPFK; JPHL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
The twelve essays in this book, some published for the first time, represent some of Tony Badger's best work in his ongoing examination of how white liberal southern politicians who came to prominence in the New Deal and World War II handled the race issue when it became central to politics in the 1950s and 1960s. Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s thought a new generation of southerners would wrestle Congress back from the conservatives. Political scientists such as V. O. Key Jr. thought the collapse of segregation would herald a new liberal class in the South. The Supreme Court thought ... Read more
The twelve essays in this book, some published for the first time, represent some of Tony Badger's best work in his ongoing examination of how white liberal southern politicians who came to prominence in the New Deal and World War II handled the race issue when it became central to politics in the 1950s and 1960s. Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s thought a new generation of southerners would wrestle Congress back from the conservatives. Political scientists such as V. O. Key Jr. thought the collapse of segregation would herald a new liberal class in the South. The Supreme Court thought ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288448
SKU
V9781557288448
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About Anthony J. Badger
Anthony J. Badger is Paul Mellon Professor of American History at Cambridge University and Master of Clare College. He is the author of a number of books, including North Carolina and the New Deal; The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940; The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement (with Brian Ward); and Contesting Democracy (with Byron ... Read more
Reviews for New Deal/New South: An Anthony J. Badger Reader
This book promises to inform and enlighten in a multitude of ways, not the least of them being the insights it offers into the progression of an exceptionally talented historian's interests and awareness as Tony shares his professional and personal odyssey from New Deal historian to southern historian." —from the foreword by James C. Cobb