| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought. By Paul V. Murphy. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xiv, 351 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2630-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4960-X.)

Paul V. Murphy sets an ambitious agenda for The Rebuke of History. First, responding to defenders of the Agrarians who explain its ideological apparatus as the "mythic embodiment" of an imagined rather than lived life, Murphy proposes to submit it to analysis "as a tradition of social thought" and to connect it to "often overlooked trends in American intellectual life as well as the development of American conservative thought in this century." Telling the oft-told story of the Twelve Southerners and I'll Take My Stand (1930), Murphy concentrates on the usual suspects: Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and Donald Davidson, with a little more John Donald Wade than Andrew Lytle off the bench. . . .

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