2733 The South in Modern America: A Region at Odds, by Dewey W. Grantham (read 20 Apr 1995) This is a 1994 book by a Vanderbilt professor. It is a carefully constructed book which tells of the South from 1875 to 1994, and does so very even-handedly. It is a little heavy on sociology and really did not tell me too much I didn't know. But the story told is intriguing--at least de jure the South is no longer the abomination it was when I was young and was repelled by the repression which was its most prominent feature. This is the fourth book in The New American Nation series I have read and all the volumes I have read have been good ones. The book also has a good chapter on southern literature ( )