The Wild Man from Sugar Creek : The Political Career of Eugene Talmadge
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0807101702
ISBN-13
9780807101704
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
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Louisiana State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 1976
Print length
268 Pages
Weight
460 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.80 x 2.20 cms
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Eugene Talmadge's career as a politician lasted twenty years, and during that time he dominated Georgia's political structure as few men have in any state's history. The Wild Man from Sugar Creek is a fascinating biography of one of the South's most colourful political figures.
Eugene Talmadge's career as a politician lasted twenty years, and during that time he dominated Georgia's political structure as few men have in any state's history. The Wild Man from Sugar Creek is a fascinating biography of one of the South's most colourful political figures. It is also a revealing analysis of the Georgia mind in the 1930s, reminiscent in its sociological reflections of Cash's Mind of the South.
A product of ""Old South"" thinking, Talmadge was elected governor of Georgia four times. His significance lay in his total commitment to fighting the liberalization of the southern mind and the quickening demise of the South's traditional culture. He saw Roosevelt's New Deal as the culprit, and he fought desperately against the rise of big government.
""He was,"" says William Anderson, ""the champion of the mythical little man, of the have-nots, the dejected, the mentally awash, the orphans of rural life propelled by the depression to the doorsteps of the city, alone, uncertain, afraid.""
The Wild Man from Sugar Creek is based in large part on interviews with living contemporaries of Talmadge, so that the books' central character comes alive in much the same way that Huey Long does in T. Harry Williams' prize-winning biography of the Louisiana political figure.
The first full biography of Talmadge, The Wild Man from Sugar Creek captures the monumental changes in the southern mind during the tumultuous 1930s, and recreates the struggle between a fiercely independent politician and the rush of change in a conservative land.
""The poor dirt farmer ain't got but three friends on this earth: God Almighty, Sears Roebuck and Gene Talmadge."" - Eugene Talmadge
A product of ""Old South"" thinking, Talmadge was elected governor of Georgia four times. His significance lay in his total commitment to fighting the liberalization of the southern mind and the quickening demise of the South's traditional culture. He saw Roosevelt's New Deal as the culprit, and he fought desperately against the rise of big government.
""He was,"" says William Anderson, ""the champion of the mythical little man, of the have-nots, the dejected, the mentally awash, the orphans of rural life propelled by the depression to the doorsteps of the city, alone, uncertain, afraid.""
The Wild Man from Sugar Creek is based in large part on interviews with living contemporaries of Talmadge, so that the books' central character comes alive in much the same way that Huey Long does in T. Harry Williams' prize-winning biography of the Louisiana political figure.
The first full biography of Talmadge, The Wild Man from Sugar Creek captures the monumental changes in the southern mind during the tumultuous 1930s, and recreates the struggle between a fiercely independent politician and the rush of change in a conservative land.
""The poor dirt farmer ain't got but three friends on this earth: God Almighty, Sears Roebuck and Gene Talmadge."" - Eugene Talmadge
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