William J. Cooper Jr. | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. By Stephen Kantrowitz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. x, 422 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2530-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4839-5.)

Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina has generally been portrayed as a leading figure among southern politicians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who championed the course of white farmers against Redeemer regimes while they pilloried blacks in a vicious racist onslaught. But it has been more than fifty years since the last treatment of Tillman's entire career, Francis Simkins's Pitchfork Ben Tillman (1944). Thus a new look at Tillman, who not only dominated his state between 1890 and World War I but also became an influential national figure on race, has been sorely needed. . . .

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