About the Author

Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins is Professor of History at The University of Alabama and Editor of The Alabama Review.

Reviews

"A first-rate piece of research and writing, and does more than any monograph I have read in recent years to clarify the complex political situation in the South after the war." -David Herbert Donald

"Wiggins destroys the traditional myths concerning the scalawag.... This is a must acquisition for all libraries with holdings in Southern history." -Choice