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As a member of Roosevelt's brain trust, chairman of New York
City's Planning Commission, and governor of Puerto Rico, Rexford G.
Tugwell was a public figure frequently stereotyped by historians
who saw in him what they wanted to see. Namorato's clear and
thorough examination of Tugwell's life is the first complete
biography of this prominent political figure. The volume opens with
an investigation into Tugwell's early years and then discusses his
experiences during World War I, the years from 1920 to 1932 which
Tugwell spent as an economics professor at Columbia University,
Tugwell's brain trust role, and his New Deal years from 1932 to
1936. The author also examines Tugwell's term as chairman of the
NYCPC and as governor of Puerto Rico from 1937 through 1946.
Namorato's portrayal provides a fresh and balanced view of this
unique statesman.
The New Deal and the South edited by James C. Cobb and Michael V.
Namorato essays by Alan Brinkley, Harvard Sitkoff, Frank Freidel,
Pete Daniel, J. Wayne Flynt, and Numan V. Bartley The New Deal and
the South represents the first comprehensive treatment of the
impact of the Roosevelt recovery program on the South. In essays
dealing with the New Deal's overall effect on the South, its
influence on southern agriculture, labor, blacks, and politics, and
its significance as a turning point in the region's history, the
contributors provide readers with an opportunity to develop a more
complete understanding of an era which a number of historians now
mark as the period in which the New South actually began to become
new. Each of the essays in this collection was presented at the
Ninth Annual Chancellor's Symposium on Southern History, held in
October 1983, at the University of Mississippi. In the introductory
essay Frank Freidel identifies the New Deal period as one of the
most important phases in the modernization of the South, one which
linked the wishful thinking of the New South era to the
much-publicized contemporary Sunbelt South. Pete Daniel describes
the New Deal's role in the mechanization, consolidation, and
corporatization of southern agriculture, a phenomenon that swept
thousands of southerners from the land and paved the way for an
all-out crusade to industrialize the region. In his analysis of the
New Deal's impact on southern labor, Wayne Flynt assesses what the
New Deal did and did not mean for southern industrial workers. Alan
Brinkley stresses the tensions induced in southern politics during
the New Deal era, particularly those caused by the Democratic
Party's increased responsiveness to blacks and organized labor.
Harvard Sitkoff, in surveying the New Deal's impact on black
southerners, cites the limited nature of that impact but points to
the seeds of future progress sown by the Roosevelt Administration
and its policies. In the concluding essay Numan V. Bartley
emphasizes the collapse of a paternalistic labor system and the
shift of power from small town to urban elites and suggests that
the years 1935-1945 may soon be seen as the crucial decade in
southern history. The New Deal and the South provides both the
serious student and the general reader with an up-to-date
assessment of one of the most critical transitional periods in
southern history. James C. Cobb is a professor of history at the
University of Georgia. Michael V. Namorato is a professor of
history at the University of Mississippi.
Have We Overcome? Race Relations Since Brown, 1954-1979 Edited by
Michael V. Namorato Essays by Lerone Bennett, Jr., Vincent Harding,
Morton J. Horwitz, William E. Leuchtenburg, Henry M. Levin, C. Eric
Lincoln, and Robert H. Wiebe On May 17, 1954, the United States
Supreme Court rendered the first of two historic decisions in Brown
v. Board of Education of Topeka. One year later, the conclusion to
a second case demanded that integration proceed "with all
deliberate speed." These two verdicts affected American life far
beyond the schools and proved the beginning of the end to the
segregated South. The essays in Have We Overcome? Race Relations
Since Brown, 1954-1979, delivered by major scholars just after
America's bicentennial and on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
Brown decision, endeavor to answer that question and determine what
strides have been made and what remains to be overcome. This book
is the final volume in a three-part investigation which begins with
What Was Freedom's Price? and includes The Age of Segregation: Race
Relations in the South, 1890-1945. All three are available again in
paperback from University Press of Mississippi. Michael V. Namorato
is a professor of history at the University of Mississippi.
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