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American RamblerAuthor: Colin Woodward
Based in Richmond, Virginia, American Rambler features long-form interviews with historians, writers, artists, and scholars. It also features commentary on film, music, and politics. Language: en Genres: History Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Episode 155: Dan T. Carter
Episode 155
Saturday, 30 November, 2019
Dan Carter is one of the best historians of the South. A native of South Carolina, he won the Bancroft Prize for his first book, Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, which was published in 1969. Since then, he has written about the Reconstruction period, before turning his attention to 20th century politics in The Politics of Rage: The Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of Politics (1995) and From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994 (1999). Retired from teaching, he lives in western North Carolina, where he is writing about the white supremacist, faux Native American, and Hollywood screenwriter, Forrest Carter. Colin and Dan talk about southern politics; the realignment of parties in the late-20th century; the persistence of Lost Cause ideology; and worrisome nature of the Trump era.
