| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization. By Daniel S. Margolies. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xii, 340 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2417-9.)

Henry Watterson (1840–1921), the scion of a well-to-do family of Tennessee politicians, grew up around leading members of the national Democratic party, and, for his entire life, he put his pen to the service of political ends, generally on the side of the Democrats. He began his career as a journalist in 1850s Tennessee, and, following unenthusiastic duty as a Confederate soldier, he edited the Louisville Courier-Journal from 1868 until 1918. Under Watterson's leadership the paper took on regional and often national importance, and he produced a flood of florid, repetitive editorials supporting economic change in the South.

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