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Eugene Talmadge. The Wild Man from Sugar Creek: The Political Career of Eugene Talmadge,
By William Anderson, Louisiana State University, 1975. xviii + 239pp. ...
... For example ? The Eugene Talmadge campaign mailed out forms challenging their right
to vote to black registrants, in an effort to revoke their right to vote ...
... For example ? The Eugene Talmadge campaign mailed out forms challenging their right
to vote to black registrants, in an effort to revoke their right to vote ...
... White supremacists governors like Eugene Talmadge of Georgia and Theodore Bilbo
of Mississippi urged anti-black violence and black war veterans were killed and ...
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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 black people that “knew Gene liked him.” Like most white men in Georgia, he held strong paternalistic ideas. Talmadge lived in a time when for the first time in Georgia’s history less than half of her population was living on farms. Classical rural Georgia was changing along with the rest of the nation, albeit slower but it was faster than Talmadge and other paternalistic white males wanted or even recognized.
Inadvertently Anderson gives us an even bigger lesson about politics in Georgia and the South in general. The Democratic Party was typically seen as the party of the downtrodden for poor farmers and other people who were economically depressed. The poor certainly saw them as their political savior. However, the party support only extended to white Georgians and particularly to white males without having their best interests at heart, only their best interests as perceived and allowed by the political elite. Some of the issues that made Talmadge...
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