The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition
"Here, at last, is a subtle, compelling view of the late 19th-century South whose scholarship is up-to-date.... In a synthesis that captures the late 19th-century South in its bewildering complexity, Ayers does get the New South right." --Washington Post Book World"The most ambitious, comprehensive, and original survey of post-Reconstruction Southern history to appear since Woodward'sOrigins.... Ayers's book deepens and enriches our sense of the diversity and complexity of southern life." --George M. Fredrickson,The New York Review of Books