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Revisiting the Ruins: Reformism and Reactionism in the New South - Roger Biles, The South and the New Deal (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994). Pp. x, 205. $23.00. - William A. Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880–1930 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993). Pp. xviii, 440. $45.00 cl., $16.95 pb.

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Roger Biles, The South and the New Deal (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994). Pp. x, 205. $23.00.

William A. Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880–1930 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993). Pp. xviii, 440. $45.00 cl., $16.95 pb.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

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1. Woodward, C. Vann, The Burden of Southern History, rev. ed. (Baton Rouge, 1968), 21Google Scholar.

2. Ayers, Edward L., The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (New York, 1992)Google Scholar; idem, Southern Crossing: A History of the American South, 1877–1906 (New York, 1995); Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill, New women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States (New York, 1993)Google Scholar; and Grantham, Dewey W., Southern Progressivism: The Reconciliation of Progress and Tradition (Knoxville, Tenn., 1983)Google Scholar; and idem, The South in Modern America: A Reunion at Odds (New York, 1994).

3. Furay, Conal, The Grass-Roots Mind in America: The American Sense of Absolutes (New York, 1977), viiiGoogle Scholar.

4. Link, William A., A Hard Country and a Lonely Place: Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870–1920 (Chapel Hill, 1986)Google Scholar.

5. Biles, Roger, Memphis in the Great Depression (Knoxville, Tenn., 1986)Google Scholar; and idem, A New Deal for the American People (Dekalb, Ill., 1991).