Pitchfork Ben Tillman by Francis Simkins
The definitive biography of a controversial South Carolina leader; Upon its initial publication in 1944, Pitchfork Ben Tillman was a signal event in the writing of modern South Carolina history. In a biography the Journal of Southern History called ""definitive."" Francis Butler Simkins brings his research skills and professional dispassion to bear upon a study of one of the state's most controversial political leaders. 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. During his political ascendancy as governor and then United States Senator, Tillman introduced the state's dispensary system and shaped the state's 1895 constitution into a bulwark of white supremacy. Almost single-handedly Tillman established the iniquities of Jim Crow that countless other southern demagogues would imitate. These ""accomplishments"" would plague the South and the nation until this day. Orville Vernon Burton's new introduction looks at both Tillman and author Francis Simkins as prime examples of southerners with tremendous talent but unsettling accomplishments.
Francis Butler Simkins (1897-1966) was a historian and a past president of the Southern Historical Association. Born in Edgefield, South Carolina, Simkins received his B.A. from the University of South Carolina and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Reared in South Carolina, historian Orville Vernon Burton is the author of In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina. He lives in Urbana, Illinois.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781570034770 |
| ISBN 10 | 157003477X |
| Title | Pitchfork Ben Tillman |
| Author | Francis Simkins |
| Series | Southern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of South Carolina Press |
| Year published | 2002-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 634 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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