Bøger af J. Douglas Smith

Fueled by films and TV series such as "Saving Private Ryan" and "Band of Brothers" and popular books by Stephen Ambrose and Tom Brokaw, interest in World War II has soared.

Drawing on private correspondence and official documents, this text traces the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia. It reveals a fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.