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Podcast: New Books in the American South
Episode: Glenn Feldman, “Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government” (UP of Florida, 2014)
Description: Glenn Feldman is the editor of Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government (University Press of Florida, 2014). Feldman is professor of history at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Painting Dixie Red: When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican and Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South. Some of political scientists included in the volume are: Thomas Schaller, Allan McBride, and Natalie Motise Davis. In the introduction, Feldman writes “No other region has been more important than the So...