Bøger af Sheldon Hackney

"Hackney has very skillfully integrated his quantitative findings and the results of more traditional research. In this respect the book should for some time be a prime exhibit of the utility of the 'new political history' [and] we should receive Hackney's contribution with both gratitude and admiration." - Journal of Interdisciplinary History

The ex-Confederate states continue to be thoroughly American, yet an exception to the mainstream. The region's dual personality, how it came into being, and the purposes and interests it served is examined, and its role in the politics and "culture wars" flowing from the Civil Rights Movement and other social justice movements of the 50s and 60s.