Description: Ranging from the South's climate to its religious fundamentalism to its great outpouring of fiction and autobiography, the contributors show how and why our perceptions of the region have been continually refashioned by national/southern tensions, trends, and events.
Brief description: DON H. DOYLE is McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. His books include Nations Divided (Georgia) and Faulkner's County.
Review Quotes:
Stylish essays . . . Portray and interpret a region that changed more than any other in the postwar years.
--Atlanta Journal-Constitution