The Fall of the House of Dixie
By Bruce Levine Random House, 439 pages, (BAnQ) Extraits dans Google Books …. Critique du Wall Street Journal The slave-holding American South was a plutocracy built on a monstrosity. A self-perpetuating elite that derived both its material worth and self-worth from its dominion over millions of stolen Africans, the planters conned themselves into believing that…