Bøger af Charles W. Eagles

Historians have customarily explained the 1920s in terms of urban-rural conflict, arguing that cultural, ethnic, and economic differences between urban and rural Americans influenced political conflict in the decade. Eagles uses the issue of congressional reapportionment to examine politics in the 1920s and to test the urban-rural thesis.

When James Meredith enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi in 1962, the resulting riots produced more casualties than any other clash of the civil rights era. Eagles shows that the violence resulted from the university's and the state's long defiance of the civil rights movement and federal law. Eagles also paints a remarkable portrait of Meredith himself.