New Deal / New South
An Anthony J. Badger Reader

“No commentator on twentieth century America, especially the American South, writes more perceptively, or more engagingly, than Tony Badger. Viewing the United States from a British perspective, he matches an extraordinary command of sources and a vivid style to a transatlantic angle of vision.”
—William E. Leuchtenburg, author of The White House Looks South

“This admirable volume, containing not only Tony Badger’s many deeply researched articles and talks about Southern political history but also a fascinating and lively autobiographical essay, is a wonderful and welcome publication.”
—James Patterson, author of Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974

“Tony Badger is the leading political historian of the South between 1930 and 1970. Tony is a master essayist, capable of grand synthesis while at the same time proving that political history requires precision
craftsmanship.”
—Jane Daily, author of The Politics of Race in Post-Emancipation Virginia

“A hearty feast. . . . There is coherent shape here reflecting Badger’s own persistence in the reexamination of the twentieth-century American South—politics and policy, questions of color, rights, and identity, and matters rural and agricultural.”
—Jack Kirby, author of Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920-1960

“This is a very important subject, especially as scholars try to compose a multiple and comprehensive account of the civil rights movement and how it affected both blacks and whites. . . . This is a valuable collection by a distinguished scholar.”
—Steven Lawson, author of To Secure These Rights: President Harry S. Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights