| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Ernest Vandiver: Governor of Georgia. By Harold Paulk Henderson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xiv, 300 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-2223-7.)

Ernest Vandiver Jr. began his political career as a member of the Talmadge faction in Georgia politics. Eugene and Herman Talmadge dominated Georgia politics from 1936 until the 1960s by dint of personality, the antiquated county unit system, and effective appeals to white supremacy. Vandiver served as campaign manager for Herman Talmadge in his successful 1948 gubernatorial campaign, and with support from the Talmadge faction Vandiver won a landslide victory in the gubernatorial contest in 1958. Bitterly opposed to integration, Vandiver called the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision of the Supreme Court a "judicial monstrosity," and as governor he shepherded the passage of a bill that would close any school desegregated by a court order. 1

During his four-year term, the young governor helped pass an Honesty in Government bill, cut state expenses, and rehabilitated the Milledgeville State Hospital for mental patients. His intense fight to retain the county unit system ended with the Baker v. Carr "one man, one vote" decision in 1962. . . .

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