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In the years following World War II, the national Democratic Party aligned its agenda more and more with the goals of the civil rights movement. By contrast, a majority of southern Democrats remained as committed as ever to a longstanding segregationist ideology. Through the career of Senator James Eastland, one of the mid-century’s most prominent politicians, Maarten Zwiers explores the uneasy, yet mutually beneficial relationship between conservative southerners and the increasingly liberal party to which they belonged.

Senator James Eastland provides a case study of the complicated relationship between party and party members that allowed Democrats to maintain power in the U.S. South for much of the twentieth century.

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The turbulent and unpredictable presidency of Donald Trump has intensified public and scholarly attention to the personalities of presidents. Profiles in Power approaches the presidency as a personal affair that is shaped, in part, by the character of the occupants of the Oval Office and their attempts to craft public personas. In ten biographical essays that focus on individual presidents and on one First Lady, the authors in this volume build on a renewed interest in presidential studies that emphasizes individual agency. As such, the book seeks to bring the personal aspect of the presidency back into U.S. political history.

Chapters and articles

 

  • “Voorwoord.” Voor Elkaar Met Elkaar: Black Lives Matter, 9-16. Soesterberg: Uitgeverij Aspekt, 2022. https://bit.ly/3T7igru.

  • “Hellhounds on the Campaign Trail: Region, Religion, and Manhood in Jimmy Carter’s Race for the White House” and “Introduction: The Personal Presidency.” In Profiles in Power: Personality, Persona, and the U.S. President, edited by Jelte Olthof and Maarten Zwiers, 1-8, 170-191. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. https://pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/1067297742/9789004422643-BP000011.pdf.

  • “Mondiaal Wit Verzet: Massive Resistance en de Amerikaanse Burgerrechtenbeweging, 1932-1969.” Groniek 223 (2020): 179-193. https://doi.org/10.21827/groniek.223.37258.

  • “The Whistles of George Wallace: Gender and Emotions in the 1968 Presidential Election.” European Journal of American Studies 14, no. 1 (2019): http://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.14454.

  • “Van Hummelo tot Sweet Home Alabama: Plattelandsrock in Transnationaal Perspectief.” Bijdragen en Mededelingen Gelre 109 (2018): 169-185. https://bit.ly/3DQmqOH.

  • “Orde en Gezag: Hendrik Koekoek, George Wallace en de Opkomst van het Rechts-Populisme in Nederland en de Verenigde Staten.” Historica: Tijdschrift voor Gendergeschiedenis 41, no. 3 (2018): 33-38. https://bit.ly/3RepEyK.

  • Seven entries for the Mississippi Encyclopedia. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017.

  • “From Traitor to Martyr: Robert E. Lee and the Myth of White Victimhood.” The Activist History Review (October 2017): http://bit.ly/2zlbA24.

  • “Good Cop, Bad Cop: Segregationist Strategies and Democratic Party Politics in Mississippi, 1948-1960.” Southern Quarterly 54, no. 1 (Fall 2016): 29-52. https://research.rug.nl/files/39562115/pdf.pdf.

  • “Rebel Rock: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Normaal, and Regional Identity.” Southern Cultures 21, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 85-102. https://bit.ly/3SAJC7F.

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