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<br> Ably written synthetic account of the region. Shows a sharp eye for the resonant detail. Moving. --History News Network <br><br>

James C. Cobb is one of the most distinguished historians of the twentieth-century American South...He has produced a synthesis that deserves a wide audience of faculty and students, as well as the general public...One of the book's pleasures it the colorful sources, quotations, and anecdotes with which Cobb adorns his narrative. --The Journal of Southern History Ably written synthetic account of the region. Shows a sharp eye for the resonant detail. Moving. --History News Network A most effective thesis on the evolution of race relations... [Cobb] handles complexities elegantly, injecting anecdotes of personal struggles of first-hand witnesses within the larger topics of Jim Crow and the civil rights movement...Cobb's research on the 20th century alone is worth reading, but his focus on where the South is now harbors this book's true value. --The Post and Courier Cobb's account of the tortured dismantling of racial discrimination in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s is a tale both heroic and disheartening, and even now gradually fading from historical consciousness. The author writes with an appropriate exasperation of the often violent and bizarre measure of obstruction and resistance - including the shameless subversion of law and order in parts of the Deep South, and determined passive resistance elsewhere. --The Weekly Standard James C. Cobb is a don of Southern historians, and his The South and America Since World War II is impressive for its scope and sweep. No important event in the last 70 years escapes his eye. --The Wilson Quarterly Masterful...Cobb, one of the South's leading historians, has produced a clear and compelling portrait of a tumultuous time, using race relations, economic development, and culture as three lenses through which to understand the contemporary South and its future. --Foreign Affairs Highly recommended. --Bowling Green Daily News ...compelling analysis of monumental transformations that reshaped the segregated and rural-dominated South since WorldWar II --Pete Daniel

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James C. Cobb is B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia. His books include The Most Southern Place on Earth, which won the Mississippi Historical Society's McLemore Prize, and Away Down South, which received the Mary Lawton Hodges Prize in Southern Studies.

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