The Door of Hope: Republican Presidents and the First Southern Strategy, 1877 1933 (New Perspectives on the History of the South)

Frantz's insightful reading of primary sources provides an important blueprint for the ultimate demise of the 'solid' South controlled by Democrats and the eventual triumph of the once-hated Republicans in the land of Dixie.--John David Smith, Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History, UNC-Charlotte.