James J. Kilpatrick : salesman for segregation / William P. Hustwit.
"James J. Kilpatrick was a nationally known television personality, journalist, and columnist whose conservative voice rang out loudly and widely through the twentieth century. As editor of the Richmond News Leader, writer for the National Review, debater in the "Point/Counterpoint" portion of CBS's 60 Minutes, and supporter of conservative political candidates like Barry Goldwater, Kilpatrick had many platforms for his race-based brand of southern conservatism. In James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation, William Hustwit delivers a comprehensive study of Kilpatrick's importance to the civil rights era and explores how his protracted resistance to both desegregation and egalitarianism culminated in an enduring form of conservatism that revealed a nation's unease with racial change. Relying on archival sources, including Kilpatrick's personal papers, Hustwit provides an invaluable look at what Gunnar Myrdal called the race problem in the "white mind" at the intersection of the postwar conservative and civil rights movements. Growing out of a painful family history and strongly conservative political cultures, Kilpatrick's personal values and self-interested opportunism contributed to America's ongoing struggles with race and reform"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 146960213X
- ISBN: 9781469602134
- Physical Description: ix, 310 pages, 5 unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-299) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1 Into the Byrd Cage 7 -- 2 Jim Cronyism 41 -- 3 If at First You Don't Secede 79 -- 4 A Cross of Goldwater 107 -- 5 Newspeak 143 -- 6 Revolution Will Not Be Televised 202.
Search for related items by subject
- Subject:
- Kilpatrick, James Jackson, 1920-2010.
Television journalists > United States > Biography.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Editors > United States > Biography.
Segregation > Political aspects > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Government, Resistance to > Southern States > History > 20th century. - Genre:
- Biographies.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Brown Library System. (Show)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| George H. & Laura E. Brown Library | B Kil (Text) | 30308100984146 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
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"James J. Kilpatrick was a nationally known television personality, journalist, and columnist whose conservative voice rang out loudly and widely through the twentieth century. As editor of the Richmond News Leader, writer for the National Review, debater in the "Point/Counterpoint" portion of CBS's 60 Minutes, and supporter of conservative political candidates like Barry Goldwater, Kilpatrick had many platforms for his race-based brand of southern conservatism. In James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation, William Hustwit delivers a comprehensive study of Kilpatrick's importance to the civil rights era and explores how his protracted resistance to both desegregation and egalitarianism culminated in an enduring form of conservatism that revealed a nation's unease with racial change. Relying on archival sources, including Kilpatrick's personal papers, Hustwit provides an invaluable look at what Gunnar Myrdal called the race problem in the "white mind" at the intersection of the postwar conservative and civil rights movements. Growing out of a painful family history and strongly conservative political cultures, Kilpatrick's personal values and self-interested opportunism contributed to America's ongoing struggles with race and reform"--
