Combining biography with regional and national history, Dan T. Carter chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of George Wallace, a populist who abandoned his ideals to become a national symbol of racism
"Carter's essays present graphic evidence of the extent to which race continues to matter in American politics."-Journal of Southern HistoryIn this penetrating survey of the last three decades, Dan T.
In the months after Appomattox, the South was plunged into a chaos that surpassed even the disorder of the last hard months of the war itself. Peace brought, if anything, an increased level of violenc
