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Book Review

Mississippi Liberal: A Biography of Frank E. Smith. By Dennis J. Mitchell. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. xviii, 292 pp. $30.00, ISBN 1-57806-343-4.)
Dennis J. Mitchell's biography of Frank E. Smith begins with a fascinating question: How, in the 1950s and early 1960s, did a racial liberal from the Mississippi Delta win six elections to the United States Congress? The answer, unfortunately, is not as interesting; according to Mitchell, Smith kept his convictions secret and did what he had to do to gain and remain in office. What is promised on the dust jacket, the story of a "white politician who staunchly supported the civil rights movement at home," collapses into a historical rationalization of political expediency. . . .
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