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Contents I 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9 Foreword by William E. Leuchtenburg ix Preface to the Third Edition xxi Preface to the First Edition xxiii Acknowledgments xxix The Search for Southern Identity 3 The Historical Dimension 27 John Brown's PrivateWar 41 Equality: The Deferred Commitment 69 The Political Legacy of the First Reconstruction 89 A Southern Critique for the Gilded Age 109 The Populist Heritage and the Intellectual 141 What Happened to the Civil Rights Movement 167 The Irony of Southern History 187 10 II 12 13 A Second Look at the Theme of Irony 213 Look Away, Look Away 235 The Burden for William Faulkner 265 The Burden for Robert Penn Warren 281 Index 289 viii CONTENT? ...

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