| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

James Alex Baggett. The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 323. $55.00.

This is a work that scholars of the nineteenth-century South should notice, if only because it presents fresh data on an older political topic. Historians of Reconstruction have long debated about who native white Republicans were. James Alex Baggett engages the issue with a collective biography of 742 leading scalawag politicians, undertaken in combination with a profile of over 600 of their Democratic counterparts of similar prominence. The comparison group seems a bit arbitrary, but it does effectively reinforce the author's main contentions. I know of no other such attempt to examine the scalawag phenomenon regionwide, and the author's analysis is persuasive. One doubts that we will ever discover much more about the characteristics of the scalawag leadership.

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