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"In this volume of eight essays, Vann Woodward attempts to understand and explain the distinctive heritage and character of the South by means of selective aspects of the region's experience.
...The reader will recognize in several of the essays such familiar themes. as the slavery controversy, civil and political rights of Negroes, and Populism of the 1890's. Although these subjects may be familiar ones, Woodward's treatment is so original and perceptive as to make them essentially new explanations of the southern heritage.... Certainly no southern historian has contributed more to an understanding of southern history than Woodward. In these essays, with penetrating thought, humane spirit, and deftness of style, he comes nearer to getting at the essence of the southern heritage than countless previous volumes on the region's history.
Historians and laymen alike will derive from these essays a deeper sense of the complexity and poignancy of the southern story."
- J. Carlyle Sitterson, in the American Historical Review