Books, Arts & Manners: The Second Reconstruction

The American South By Monroe Lee Billington

Scribner, 436 pp., $12.50 Professional Southerners we have with us always, but today’s are a new and unlovable breed. The Old School types had their appeal—people over thirty will remember the windy solon of Allen’s Alley, Senator Claghorn, who’d never wear a Union-suit, son; and everyone today must know Al Capp’s General Jubilation T. Cornpone, the revanchist paladin, hero (or anyhow survivor) of Cornpone’s Retreat, Corn-pone’s Rout and Cornpone’s Humiliation (among countless other disasters).

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The American South By Monroe Lee Billington

Scribner, 436 pp., $12.50 Professional Southerners we have with us always, but today’s are a new and unlovable breed. The Old School types had their appeal—people over thirty will remember the windy solon of Allen’s Alley, Senator Claghorn, who’d never wear a Union-suit, son; and everyone today must know Al Capp’s General Jubilation T. Cornpone, the revanchist paladin, hero (or anyhow survivor) of Cornpone’s Retreat, Corn-pone’s Rout and Cornpone’s Humiliation (among countless other disasters).