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Book SynopsisJennifer Ritterhouse pieces together Jonathan Daniels's unpublished notes from his tour of the American South, along with his published writings and a wealth of archival evidence to put this one man's journey through a South in transition into a larger context.
Trade ReviewProvides a good on-the-ground view of how the New Deal affected the South in large and small ways." -
Journal of American History"Scholars and a general audience will gain insights from this panorama of the New Deal South, its problems, people, and potential, and the quandary of a white southern liberal on his way to becoming a racial liberal." -
The Journal of Southern History"How a Tar Heel Southerner discovered the South." -
Wilmington Star-News"An uncommonly well-informed reexamination of the Dixie of the latter Depression." - Ed Yoder,
The Weekly Standard"Fascinating and well-researched. . . . Ritterhouse has done an admirable job in transporting us to a time and place and a southern liberal's struggle to describe a region on the cusp of change." - Rob Christensen,
News and Observer"Puts Daniels' tour in context of President Roosevelt's New Deal programs and the growing movement for greater civil rights for all." -
Durham Herald-Sun
