New Deal / New South: An Anthony J. Badger Reader

Contents

Contents Foreword by James C. Cobb xi Introduction xiii 1. Huey Long and the New Deal 1 2. How Did the New Deal Change the South? 31 3. The Modernization of the South: The Lament for Rural Worlds Lost 45 4. Whatever Happened to Roosevelt’s New Generation of Southerners? 58 5. Southerners Who Refused to Sign the Southern Manifesto 72 6. The White Reaction to Brown: Arkansas, the Southern Manifesto, and Massive Resistance 88 7. “Closet Moderates”: Why White Liberals Failed, 1940–1970 102 8. From Defiance to Moderation: South Carolina Governors and Racial Change 127 9. “When I Took the Oath of Office, I Took No Vow of Poverty”: Race, Corruption, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1928–2000 144 10. The Dilemma of Biracial Politics in the South since 1965 168 11. Southern New Dealers Confront the World: Lyndon Johnson, Albert Gore, and Vietnam 181 12. The Anti-Gore Campaign of 1970 (with Michael S. Martin) 202 Acknowledgments 213 Notes 217 Index 259 ...