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WOODWARD, Comer Vann was born on November 13, 1908 in Vanndale, Arkansas, United States. Son of Hugh Allison Woodward and Bess Vann Woodward.
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Although Thomas E. Watson championed the rising Populist movement at the turn of the 19th century--an interracial alliance of agricultural interests fighting the forces of industrial capitalism--his eventual frustration with politics transformed him from liberalism to racial bigotry, from popular spokesman to mob leader. Pulitzer Prize winning scholar C. Vann Woodward clearly and objectively traces the history of this enigmatic Populist leader.
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Pulitzer-Prize-winner and bestselling author C. Vann Woodward recreates the gripping account of the battle for Leyte Gulf—the greatest naval battle of World War II and the largest engagement ever fought on the high seas. For the Japanese, it represented their supreme effort; they committed to action virtually every operational fighting ship on the lists of the Imperial Navy, including two powerful new battleships of the Yamato class. It also ended in their greatest defeat—and a tremendous victory for the United States Navy. Features a new introduction by Evan Thomas, author of Sea of Thunder.
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This edition is a reprint of the 1951 edition on the history of the south. It includes a critical essay on recent works by Charles B Dew. This is volume 9 in a series on the History of the South.
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(Between the era of America's landmark antebellum compromi...)
Between the era of America's landmark antebellum compromises and that of the Compromise of 1877, a war had intervened, destroying the integrity of the Southern system but failing to determine the New South's relation to the Union. While it did not restore the old order in the South, or restore the South to parity with the Union, it did lay down the political foundations for reunion, bring Reconstruction to an end, and shape the future of four million freedmen. Originally published in 1951, this classic work by one of America's foremost experts on Southern history presents an important new interpretation of the Compromise, forcing historians to revise previous attitudes towards the Reconstruction period, the history of the Republican party, and the realignment of forces that fought the Civil War. Because much of the negotiating occurred in secrecy, historians have known less about this Compromise than others before it. Now reissued with a new introduction by Woodward, Reunion and Reaction gives us the other half of the story.
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C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow. The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region. Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century, The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold almost a million copies and remains, in the words of David Herbert Donald, "a landmark in the history of American race relations."
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( C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, wa...)
C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow. The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region. Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century, The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold almost a million copies and remains, in the words of David Herbert Donald, "a landmark in the history of American race relations."
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow in this revised and expanded edition is indispensable for properly understanding the great Negro revolution of our own times.
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(Historian David Donald described The Strange Career of Ji...)
Historian David Donald described The Strange Career of Jim Crow as "a landmark in history of American race relations."This study has become one of the basic books in America on this subject sine the first edition was publishedin 1955. Its popularity continued to soar with the additional information contained in the Second Revised Edition published ten years later. Of that edition, Robert Penn Warren commented, "A witty, learned and unsettling book. The depth of the unsettling becomes more obvious day by day; which is a way of saying that it is a book of permanent significance." In this third revision, C.Vann Woodward has added an entire chapter dealing with the shattering events that have taken place since 1965- the Watts riots, the murder of Martin Luther King, white backlash encouraged by black activism, and the change in national mood when Richard Nixon replaced Lyndon Johnson in the White House. He also identifies black leaders who have come to prominence since 1965 including H. Rap Brown,Huey Newton,Eldridge Cleaver , and Bobby Seale.
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C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South's historical experience. First published in 1960, the book quickly became a touchstone for generations of students. This updated third edition contains a chapter, "Look Away, Look Away," in which Woodward finds a plethora of additional ironies in the South's experience. It also includes previously uncollected appreciations of Robert Penn Warren, to whom the book was originally dedicated, and William Faulkner. This edition also features a new foreword by historian William E. Leuchtenburg in which he recounts the events that led up to Woodward's writing The Burden of Southern History, and reflects on the book's -- and Woodward's -- place in the study of southern history. The Burden of Southern History is quintessential Woodward -- wise, witty, ruminative, daring, and as alive in the twenty-first century as when it was written.
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Ballantine #227. First Ballantine paperback in VG+ condition. Faint crease along the front spine seam. Tanning to the spine and rear wrapper. Toning to the pages.
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This special edition is luxuriously bound in leather, and embellished with gold stamping of an original design. The raised bands across the spine are distinctive of the classic bookmaker's art. Specially commissioned marbleized endleaves are reminiscent of fine Old World editions. We have hundreds of other leather bound titles in stock. Please see our site for details. The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region. Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century, The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold almost a million copies and remains, in the words of David Herbert Donald, "a landmark in the history of American race relations."
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Includes 6 charts and 20 photos Pulitzer prize winning author C. Vann Woodward recounts the story of the largest naval battle of all time. “The Battle for Leyte Gulf was the greatest naval battle of the Second World War and the largest engagement ever fought on the high seas. It was composed of four separate yet closely interrelated actions, each of which involved forces comparable in size with those engaged in any previous battle of the Pacific War. The four battles, two of them fought simultaneously, were joined in three different bodies of water separated by as much as 500 miles. Yet all four were fought between dawn of one day and dusk of the next, and all were waged in the repulse of a single, huge Japanese operation. “They were guided by a master plan drawn up in Tokyo two months before our landing and known by the code name Sho Plan. It was a bold and complicated plan calling for reckless sacrifice and the use of cleverly conceived diversion. As an afterthought the suicidal Kamikaze campaign was inaugurated in connection with the plan. Altogether the operation was the most desperate attempted by any naval power during the war—and there were moments, several of them in fact, when it seemed to be approaching dangerously near to success. “Unlike the majority of Pacific naval battles that preceded it, the Battle of Leyte Gulf was not limited to an exchange of air strikes between widely separated carrier forces, although it involved action of that kind. It also included surface and subsurface action between virtually all types of fighting craft from motor torpedo boats to battleships, at ranges varying from point-blank to fifteen miles, with weapons ranging from machine guns to great rifles of 18-inch bore, fired “in anger” by the Japanese for the first time in this battle.”
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Includes 6 charts and 20 photos Pulitzer prize winning author C. Vann Woodward recounts the story of the largest naval battle of all time. “The Battle for Leyte Gulf was the greatest naval battle of the Second World War and the largest engagement ever fought on the high seas. It was composed of four separate yet closely interrelated actions, each of which involved forces comparable in size with those engaged in any previous battle of the Pacific War. The four battles, two of them fought simultaneously, were joined in three different bodies of water separated by as much as 500 miles. Yet all four were fought between dawn of one day and dusk of the next, and all were waged in the repulse of a single, huge Japanese operation. “They were guided by a master plan drawn up in Tokyo two months before our landing and known by the code name Sho Plan. It was a bold and complicated plan calling for reckless sacrifice and the use of cleverly conceived diversion. As an afterthought the suicidal Kamikaze campaign was inaugurated in connection with the plan. Altogether the operation was the most desperate attempted by any naval power during the war—and there were moments, several of them in fact, when it seemed to be approaching dangerously near to success. “Unlike the majority of Pacific naval battles that preceded it, the Battle of Leyte Gulf was not limited to an exchange of air strikes between widely separated carrier forces, although it involved action of that kind. It also included surface and subsurface action between virtually all types of fighting craft from motor torpedo boats to battleships, at ranges varying from point-blank to fifteen miles, with weapons ranging from machine guns to great rifles of 18-inch bore, fired “in anger” by the Japanese for the first time in this battle.”
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WOODWARD, Comer Vann was born on November 13, 1908 in Vanndale, Arkansas, United States. Son of Hugh Allison Woodward and Bess Vann Woodward.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Emory University, 1930. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1932. Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1937.
Doctorate (honorary), University Arkansas. Doctorate (honorary), Brandeis University. Doctorate (honorary), Cambridge University.
Doctorate (honorary), Colgate University. Doctorate (honorary), Columbia University. Doctorate (honorary), Dartmouth College.
Doctorate (honorary), Dickinson College. Doctorate (honorary), Emory University. Doctorate (honorary), Henderson University.
Doctorate (honorary), Hendix College. Doctorate (honorary), Johns Hopkins University. Doctorate (honorary), University Michigan.
Doctorate (honorary), University North Carolina. Doctorate (honorary), Northwestern University. Doctorate (honorary), Pennsylvania University.
Doctorate (honorary), Princeton University. Doctorate (honorary), Rhodes College. Doctorate (honorary), Rutgers University.
Doctorate (honorary), Tulane University. Doctorate (honorary), Washington Lee University. Doctorate (honorary), William Mary College.
Doctorate (honorary).
Assistant Professor University of Fla. 1937-1939, University of Virginia 1939-1940. Association Professor Scripps College, Claremont Colleges 1940-1943.
Lieutenant United States.N.R. 1943-1946. Professor Johns Hopkins University 1947-1961. Sterling Professor, of History, Yale University 1962-1977, Professor Emeritus since 1977.
President American Historical Association 1968-1969, Organization of American Historians 1968-1969, Southern Historical Association 1952-1953. President 1987-1988). Honorary Doctor of Laws (Michigan) 1971, Honorary L.H.D. (Columbia) 1972, (Northwestern) 1977, (Brandeis) 1983, Honorary Doctor of Letters (Princeton) 1971, Honorary Litt.D. (Cambridge) 1975.
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(The Strange Career of Jim Crow in this revised and expand...)
(Historian David Donald described The Strange Career of Ji...)
(This special edition is luxuriously bound in leather, and...)
(The joining together of the Northern Republicans and Sout...)
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(This edition is a reprint of the 1951 edition on the hist...)
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(Includes 6 charts and 20 photos Pulitzer prize winning a...)
(Includes 6 charts and 20 photos Pulitzer prize winning a...)
(An analysis of the history of Jim Crow segregation laws.)
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(C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was ...)
( C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, wa...)
( C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remai...)
Author: Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel, 1938, The Battle for Leyte Gulf, 1947, Origins of the New South, 1951, (Bancroft prize), Reunion and Reaction, 1951, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, 1955, The Burden of Southern History, 1960, American Counterpoint, 1971, Thinking Back, 1986, The Future of the Past, 1989, The Old World's New World, 1991. Editor: The Comparative Approach to American History, 1968, second edition, 1997, Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct, 1974, Mary Chesnut's Civil War, 1981 (Pulitzer prize 1982), (series) The Oxford History of the United States, 11 vols., since 1982.
Co-editor: The Private Mary Chesnut, 1984.
Served as lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Member American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Letters, American History Association (president 1969), Southern History Association (president 1952), Organization American Historians (president 1968-1969, Disting Service award 1989), American Academy Arts and Sciences (vice president 1987-1988), British Academy, Royal History Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Glenn Boyd MacLeod, December 21, 1937 (deceased). 1 child, Peter Vincent (deceased).