C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel, The Battle for Leyte Gulf, Origins of the New South, The Burden of Southern History, and The Future of the Past.

`An illuminating and exciting book.'New York Times`The book will indubitably cause controversy, for many of its implications are germane today, but Professor Woodward seems to have constructed an unassailable case. An important book, and a work of live scholarship.'The New Yorker