Description: Declarations of Dependence: The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908
Brief description:
Gregory P. Downs is assistant professor of history at the City College of New York. He is author of Spit Baths, a Flannery O'Connor Award-winning collection of short stories.
Review Quotes:
"A useful corrective for certain assumptions about both the historical and contemporary character of American political culture." -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History