The Improbable Era: The South since World War II

Bibliographical Note

Bibliographical Note The most thorough works on the South during the first half of the twentieth century are C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (Baton Rouge, La., 1951), and George B. Tindall, The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945 (Baton Rouge, La., 1967) — volumes 9 and 10 of the planned 10-volume History of the South series published under the editorship of Wendell H. Stephenson and E. Merton Coulter by the Louisiana State University Press. General histories of the region that extend into the period after World War II include William B. Hesseltine and David L. Smiley, The South in American History, 2d ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., i960); John S. Ezell, The South since 1865 (New York and London, 1963); Thomas D. Clark and Albert D. Kirwan, The South since Appomattox (New York, 1957); Monroe L. Billington, The American South: A Brief History (New York, 1971); and Francis Butler Simkins and Charles P. Roland, A History of the South (New York, 1972). Wilbur Cash, The Mind of the South (New York, 1941), is a brilliant if controversial psychoanalysis of the society of the region. Other important works dealing in whole or in part with the South during the period prior to that of this study include Howard W. Odum, Southern Regions of the United States (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1936); Rupert B. Vance, Human Geography of the South (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1932); William T. Couch, ed., Culture in the South (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1934); Allen Tate, ed., A Southern Vanguard (New York, 1947); Hodding Carter, Jr., Southern Legacy (Baton Rouge, La., 1950); and Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma (New York, 1944). Useful works devoted wholly or in part to the South since World War II include Thomas D. Clark, The Emerging South (New York, 1961); C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow (New York, 1957), and The Burden of Southern History (Baton Rouge, La., i960); Louis D. Rubin, Jr., and James J. Kilpatrick, eds., The Lasting South (Chicago, 1957); Howard Zinn, The Southern Mystique (New zo6 Bibliographical Note York, 1964); James McBride Dabbs, The Southern Heritage (New York, 1958), and Who Speaks for the South? (New York, 1965); Robert Howard West, ed., This Is the South (Chicago, 1959); Ralph McGill, The South and the Southerner (Boston, 1963); Avery Leiserson, ed., The American South in the ig6os (New York and London, 1964); Alfred O. Hero, Jr., The Southerner and World Affairs (Baton Rouge, La., 1965); John C. McKinney and Edgar T. Thompson, eds., The South in Continuity and Change (Durham, N.C., 1965); Harry S. Ashmore, An Epitaph for Dixie (New York, 1958); Charles L. Weltner, Southerner (Philadelphia, 1966); Willie Morris, North toward Home (Boston, 1967); Frank E. Smith, Look Away from Dixie (Baton Rouge, La., 1966); John Egerton, A Mind to Stay Here: Profiles from the South (New York, 1970), and The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America (New York, 1974); Pat Watters, The South and the Nation (New York, 1969); H. Brandt Ayers and Thomas H. Naylor, eds., You Can't Eat Magnolias (New York, 1972); and George E. Mowry, Another Look at the Twentieth-Century South (Baton Rouge, La., 1973). Contemporary periodicals and newspapers are indispensable sources of information on the recent South. Among the most useful periodicals are Time, Newsweek, Harper's Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, U.S. News & World Report, Saturday Review, Tacts on Tile Yearbook, Southern Living, New South, Southern Voices, Journal of Southern History, Industrial Development and Manufacturers Record, Sales Management, and Business Week. Among the more informative newspapers are the New York Times, Louisville Courier-Journal, Atlanta Constitution, and New Orleans Daily Picayune. Essential official documents include the various publications of the United States Bureau of the Census, especially the population census of 1970, the agricultural census of 1969, and the manufacturing census of 1967. The Statistical Abstract of the United States (published annually), the Annual Survey of Manufactures, and the Survey of Current Business (published monthly) are invaluable for a study of the recent South. The best bibliographical guides to southern history are Arthur S. Link and Rembert W. Patrick, eds., Writing Southern History: Essays in Historiography in Honor of Tletcher M. Green (Baton Rouge, La., 1965), a comprehensive work; O. A. Singletary and Kenneth K. Bailey, Bibliographical Note 207 The South in American History (Washington, D.C., 1965), a brief but excellent essay; and Thomas D. Clark, ed., Travels in...