C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel, The Battle for Leyte Gulf, Origins of the New South, The Burden of Southern History, and The Future of the Past.
"Once or twice in every generation a historian has the patience and
enterprise to return to some supposedly established conception of
our past, carve away a long-standing mistinterpretation, and expose
a part of the true surface....Woodward has done exactly that, and I
believe he has provided us with one of the major historical
insights of our time."--Richard Hofstadter, Columbia University
"In this eminently readable volume Woodward has made a major
contribution to our understanding of Southern interests and issues.
His penetrating and provocative analysis of this most far-reaching
compromise of our national history indicates clearly the inadequacy
and superficiality of long accepted myths. And it provides us with
important insights into the realities of contemporary Southern and
national politics. This is history as it should be written--and
read."--R.D. Heffner, The Nation
"An important book, and a work of live scholarship."--The New
Yorker
"Woodward must be given credit for bringing together the story in a
superb bit of historical craftmanship....A convincing account, with
a detective's skill and keen sense of the meaning of small leads
and an understanding of the larger aspects of history."--E.M.
Coulter, Saturday Review of Literature
"A magnificent book....This circumstantial account of the inner
workings of the Compromise that ended Reconstruction reads like a
detective story."--Rupert B. Vance, University of North
Carolina
"A fresh, vital thing, full-bodied, incisive, revealing. At long
last we know all the unsavory details."--Annals of the American
Academy of Social and Political Sciences
"An illuminating and thorough study....[Woodward] writes political
history with an appreciation of its drama, excitement, and larger
meaning."--Library Journal
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