This is the South Author:Edited by Robert West Howard Here is a book that takes no sides; argues no issues - it simply lays the facts on the table. It is not about the Civil War nor about the modern problems of integration. It is concerned with the whole South; the land and the people who form the background behind all the events, crises and misconceptio9ns of the past two hundred years. — Here is t... more »he South from every aspect of its many-sided culture. Open these pages and you will come face-to-face with its vivid history, its tragic mistakes, its unforgettable triumphs. You will meet its people - all the people who carved the South out of the American wilderness, built it, and rebuilt it into the influential, individualistic region it is today. Here are the planters, river boatmen, mountaineers, jazz musicians, crackers, trailblazers, revivalists, great ladies, statesman, and many, many others. You will learn also of the dynamic social and environmental forces that shaped the South's development.
What is the South? How did it get that way? Where is it going? These are the questions asked by Robert West Howard and nine noted Southerners when they met at a North Carolina mountaintop hide-away to lay the plans for This is the South. The answers they found form the heart of this unique book - an all-encompassing portrait of the remarkable world of the South, from its earliest beginnings to its promise of a shining future. Each of the book's thirty-two chapters has been written especially for this book by an outstanding authority on a particular phase of Southern life.« less