| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Gerald W. Johnson: From Southern Liberal to National Conscience. By Vincent Fitzpatrick. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. xxvi, 310 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2750-7.)

Before tackling this biography, readers as yet unfamiliar with Gerald W. Johnson might best seek out two anthologies of his writings, America-Watching (1976) and South-Watching (ed. Fred Hobson, 1983), for samples of his prose. For Johnson the southerner, a good choice would be "The Congo, Mr. Mencken" (1923):	1
The South is not sterile. On the contrary, it is altogether too luxuriant. It is not the Sahara but the Congo of the Bozart. Its pulses beat to the rhythm of the tom-tom, and it likes any color if it's red. (South-Watching, p. 6)
For Johnson the pundit, a good choice would be "Beyond Indo-China" (1954):	. . .

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