Rage for Order

The Crucible of Race, a major reinterpretation of black-white relations in the South, was widely acclaimed on publication and compared favorably to two of the seminal books on Southern history: Wilbur J. Cash''s The Mind of the South and C. Vann Woodward''s The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Representing 20 years of research and writing on the history of the South, The Crucible of Race explores the...