Robert E. Hunt is professor emeritus of history at Middle Tennessee State University. He is author of The Good Men Who Won the War: Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory, which won the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize in Southern History.

“Develops an interesting, important new argument. Hunt does an excellent job of showing how World War I led to a new emphasis on Americanism and a continued attempt to try to make better, more moral citizens and a more just society." —Gaines M. Foster, author of Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865–1920

• Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Graeme McGregor Smith: Daughter of the Lost Cause, More or Less Chapter 2. Luke Lea: Preparing for a War for American Exceptionalism Chapter 3. The War for a Reformer’s Exceptionalism: Albert Smith, Francis Harmon, and the Women’s Organizations of Davidson County Chapter 4. The War for American Exceptionalism: Luke Lea and the Doughboys Go to France Chapter 5. Thomas Perkins Henderson, the 1928 Election, and the Challenge to Reform Chapter 6. The Collapse and Redefinition of the Moral Economy Chapter 7. The Unraveling Notes Works Cited Index

Robert E. Hunt is professor emeritus of history at Middle Tennessee State University. He is author of The Good Men Who Won the War: Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory, which won the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize in Southern History.

“Develops an interesting, important new argument. Hunt does an excellent job of showing how World War I led to a new emphasis on Americanism and a continued attempt to try to make better, more moral citizens and a more just society." —Gaines M. Foster, author of Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865–1920

• Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Graeme McGregor Smith: Daughter of the Lost Cause, More or Less Chapter 2. Luke Lea: Preparing for a War for American Exceptionalism Chapter 3. The War for a Reformer’s Exceptionalism: Albert Smith, Francis Harmon, and the Women’s Organizations of Davidson County Chapter 4. The War for American Exceptionalism: Luke Lea and the Doughboys Go to France Chapter 5. Thomas Perkins Henderson, the 1928 Election, and the Challenge to Reform Chapter 6. The Collapse and Redefinition of the Moral Economy Chapter 7. The Unraveling Notes Works Cited Index

Robert E. Hunt is professor emeritus of history at Middle Tennessee State University. He is author of The Good Men Who Won the War: Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory, which won the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize in Southern History.

“Develops an interesting, important new argument. Hunt does an excellent job of showing how World War I led to a new emphasis on Americanism and a continued attempt to try to make better, more moral citizens and a more just society." —Gaines M. Foster, author of Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865–1920

• Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Graeme McGregor Smith: Daughter of the Lost Cause, More or Less Chapter 2. Luke Lea: Preparing for a War for American Exceptionalism Chapter 3. The War for a Reformer’s Exceptionalism: Albert Smith, Francis Harmon, and the Women’s Organizations of Davidson County Chapter 4. The War for American Exceptionalism: Luke Lea and the Doughboys Go to France Chapter 5. Thomas Perkins Henderson, the 1928 Election, and the Challenge to Reform Chapter 6. The Collapse and Redefinition of the Moral Economy Chapter 7. The Unraveling Notes Works Cited Index