12 audio discs (15 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time
150000
Description
digital rda
audio file CD audio rda
Note
Title from web page.
Performer
Read by Kirsten Potter.
Note
Compact discs.
Summary
Nancy Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free society. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ's Great Society.
