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The Wild Man from Sugar Creek: The Political Career of Eugene Talmadge, By William Anderson, Louisiana State University, 1975. xviii + 239pp.

William Anderson presents a well-written history of the rise and fall of a Georgia demagogue, Eugene Talmadge. Anderson's narrative provides insight into Talmadge's popular support and how he orchestrated the perception of being a "man of the people." He also has a smooth flowing writing style that keeps the story moving and the reader interested in following along.
Anderson shows how Talmadge was a complex personality holding seemingly contradictory ideas like most white men in the South at that time. Like Anderson says, "by no means could Eugene Talmadge be considered an integrationist" but he invited his African-American workers to eat lunch with him at his table in his home when he ran his farm in McRae, Georgia. He would allow blacks certain respect as long as they "kept their place." James Corley remembered that all the......

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