Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel
by C. Vann Woodward
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Southern Populist leader Thomas E. Watson was a figure alternately eminent and notorious. Mr. Woodward has attempted to solve the enigma of this man who did much to alter his times and who was, in turn altered by them.Tags
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2715 Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel, by C. Vann Woodward (read 5 Mar 1995) This is a 1938 biography. Watson was born three miles from Thomson, GA on Sept. 5, 1856, and died Sept 26, 1922, at Chevy Chase, Md. It is a searing and memorable book. Watson's is a fantastic story, and this book tells it surpassingly well. This book is superlative for following Georgia politics during the years Watson affected it. One is totally repelled by Watson after 1904, and not only by his vicious anti-Catholicism but even worse by his role in the Leo Frank case--a case which shows Georgia in the worst possible light. This book is a sheerly interesting book about an awful man.
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The story of Georgia’s political firebrand Tom Watson will never be a defining national myth. Its extraordinary implications for American democracy notwithstanding, Watson’s life is saturated with too much tragedy to qualify for the righteous optimism demanded by the national canon. When Watson’s statue was removed from the steps of the Georgia state Capitol in 2013, the event went show more virtually unnoticed outside Atlanta. Without historian C. Vann Woodward’s transcendent 1938 biography, Watson would have surely disappeared even from academic study, like most politicians of his era.
But Watson’s life retains an unsettling power that, once encountered, inescapably colors interpretations of the American past and present. show less
But Watson’s life retains an unsettling power that, once encountered, inescapably colors interpretations of the American past and present. show less
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One of the world's most distinguished historians, C. Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, Arkansas, and educated at Emory University and the University of North Carolina, where he received his Ph.D. in 1937. After teaching at Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Florida, and Scripps College for a time, in 1946 he joined the faculty at show more The Johns Hopkins University, where he began producing the many young Ph.D.s who have followed him into the profession. In 1961 he became Sterling Professor at Yale University, where he remains today as emeritus professor. He has been the Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities, Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University, and Commonwealth Lecturer at the University of London. Past president of all the major historical associations, he holds the Gold Medal of the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and is a member of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. His honors also include a Bancroft Prize for Origins of the New South, 1876--1913 (1951) and a 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981). A premier historian of the American South and of race relations in the United States, Woodward studies the South in a way that sheds light on the human condition everywhere. In recent years he has turned his attention increasingly to comparative history. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel
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- 1938
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