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Summer, 2006
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The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836–1916. By William D. Carrigan. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. xi + 308 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, appendices, notes, index. $35.00.)
      The national obsession with good and evil, with bringing various enemies "to justice," has peaked in recent years. Still, too many Americans celebrate heroism by remembering movie-made heroics that never really happened, while forgetting incidents in the name of "justice" that were far from just. Those who preach the sanctity of democracy, "law and order," and "values" in American history are confronted with a messier, less righteous past in William Carrigan's The Making of a Lynching Culture. . . .
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