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...Robert H. Woody Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction . By Woodward C. Vann . Boston : Little, Brown & Co. , 1951 . Pp. x , 263 . $4.00 . Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 . By Woodward C. Vann . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State...

...Bernard Duffey At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams . By Woodward Kathleen . n.p.: Ohio State University Press , 1980 . Pp. xiii , 180 . $14.50 Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Book Reviews 237 Fortunately...

...Robert B. Westbrook Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 C. Vann Woodward: The Southerner as Liberal Realist Robert B. Westbrook C. Vann Woodward is generally recognized to be one of the major figures in the modem historiography of the American South. His biography of Tom Watson...

...Carl N. Degler Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 The Revival in Reconstruction History A Review Essay of Region, Race, and Reconstruction; Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward Carl N. Degler Although today biographers of John C. Calhoun do not quote the death­ bed words ascribed...

...Theodore Ropp The Japanese at Leyte Gulf: The Sho Operation . By Field James A. Jr. Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1947 . Pp. xiv , 162 . $2.50 . The Battle for Leyte Gulf . By Vann Woodward C. . New York : The Macmillan Co. , 1947 . Pp. xii , 245 . $4.00...

...Anthony Woodward The Solitude of Santayana Anthony Woodward On August 7, 1944, shortly after the arrival of the Allied armies in Rome near the end of the Second World War, Life Magazine published a photo­ graph of the eighty-year-old Santayana, holding some reading matter in his hand and sitting...

...F. C. Woodward Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 Getting Together on the Negro Question By F. C. Woodward The negro problem is a national problem, however Southernly located, to be solved by the white people of the South, the white people of the North, and the negroes, getting...

...Frank C. Woodward, Litt. D. Copyright © 1904 by Duke University Press 1904 The Decline of Self-Ownership By Frank C. Woodward, Litt. D. That old philosophic dictum, Know Thyself, the pedagogical aphorism of human culture, has been sufficiently realized for a further step. We have attained...

...A. G. Woodward Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Pound and Santayana A. G. Woodward In 1944, in Mussolini s Said Republic, Ezra Pound was busy making posters to stick to the walls of buildings in Rapallo. On these were in­ scribed various slogans from his own translation...

...C. Vann Woodward The Way of the South: Toward a Regional Balance of America . By Odum Howard W. . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1947 . Pp. 350 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 270 The South Atlantic Quarterly ance of rashness, and reliance upon...

... important, a thesis that has captivated them.11 In the 1950 s and 1960 s liberal historians fre­ quently cited Myrdal to the effect that the South was prepared to give the Negro a better deal. Exemplifying this position is the work of C. Vann Woodward. In a series of lectures soon after the Brown deci­ sion...

... Race Relations in Virginia, 1870-1902. By Charles E. Wynes. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1961. Pp. ix, 164. $5.00. In The Strange Career of Jim Crow (New York, 1955) C. Vann Woodward advanced the thesis that the Negro in the South during the Book Reviews 137 interval between...

... of profiting by his mistakes and sufficiently intelligent to apply in­ sights gained by historical perspective to the solution of modem problems. The second book of essays2 has the advantage of single author­ ship, but its articles, like those in the other volume, are of unequal value. Mr. Woodward, bom...

... succinct and discreet, and whatever Wolfe s many virtues as a novelist, neither conciseness nor understatement could be in­ cluded amongst them. Coupled with this discovery was a re­ reading of C. Vann Woodward s stimulating essay, The Search for Southern Identity. 1 These three catalysts my experience...

... in his district. 11 The argument over why some Republicans became Radicals is by no means over. C. Vann Woodward suggests in a recent essay that the Radicals reconstruction policies may have been motivated in part by Northern apprehension over the threat of a massive Negro invasion ; the freedman s...

... through with Mr. Gilpin instead of being thrown from start to finish with spasmodic intensity with every fresh subject introduced. William Henry Irving. THE EARLY VICTORIAN ERA The Age of Reform, 1815-1870. By E. L. Woodward. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1938. Pp. xix, 656. $6.00. Letters of the Prince...

... in the history of the United States. In a lucid essay Sir Llewellyn Woodward offers A British View of Mr. Wilson s Foreign Policy. He places Wilson s policies, as they should be placed, in the context of Europe s international politics. Wilson s policies failed, Woodward suggests, not because of flaws in his...

... United States history who were protesting vio­ lations of the human rights proclaimed in the Declaration of Indepen­ dence and the Constitution. First I phoned Richard Hofstadter at Columbia University. He was enthusiastic, but suggested I get the opinion of former southerner C. Vann Woodward at Yale...

... that it is a fertile plain. Bring a group of Southern historians together, and if they do not start talking about race within five minutes, as Walter Hines Page once observed of his fellow Southerners, it is possible they will in­ dulge in an intellectual game called the search for Southern identity. C. Vann Woodward...

... not altogether clear, but the fact that the dominant features of the New South were developed during the Bourbon era has been incontestably demonstrated in the writings of recent South­ ern historians. As C. Vann Woodward has well said, . . . it was not the Radicals nor the Confederates but the Redeemers who...