Product Description: Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918) accomplished a political revolution in South Carolina when he defeated Governor Wade Hampton and the old guard Bourbons who had run the state since the end of Reconstruction. Tillman and his movement aimed to expand the political control of the state to lower- and middle-class whites at the expense of African Americans and the state's former leaders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Carefully reviews the social and political events that have shaped the history and character of the Southern states