Bøger af Anthony J. Badger

Anthony Badger explains why liberal campaigns for race-neutral economic policies failed to win over white Southerners. When federal programs did not deliver the economic benefits that white Southerners expected, the appeal of biracial politics was supplanted by the values-based lure of conservative Republicans.

In chronicling the life and career of Albert Gore, Sr., historian Anthony J. Badger explores the successes and failures of this Tennessee politician who was in the national eye for more than thirty years and whose career illuminates the significance of race, religion, and class in the creation of the modern South.

Traces a single Agricultural Adjustment Administration commodity program and assesses the impact of a major New Deal program in North Carolina. Given the problems that affected both AAA policy making and implementation, the New Deas's choice lay not between a limited or a radical program but between the limited program or none at all.