The Wild Man from Sugar Creek: The Political Career of Eugene Talmadge - Hardcover

Anderson, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807100889 ISBN 13: 9780807100882

Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1975

Synopsis

This is a hardcover book with a dust jacket price of $11.95 published by Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge in 1975. It was printed by Moran Industries and designed by Albert Crochet. It includes Notes, a Bibliography, Index and black and white photographs. Eugene Talmadge's career as a politician lasted twenty years, and during that time he dominated Georgia's political structure as few men have in any state's history. The Wild Man from Sugar Creek is a fascinating biography of one of the South's most colorful political figures. It is also a revealing analysis of the Georgia mind in the 1930s, reminiscent in its sociological reflections of Cash's Mind of the South. A product of "Old South" thinking, Talmadge was elected governor of Georgia four times. His significance lay in his total commitment to fighting the liberalization of the southern mind and the quickening demise of the South's traditional culture. He saw Roosevelt's New Deal as the culprit, and he fought desperately against the rise of big government. "He was," says William Anderson, "the champion of the mythical little man, of the have-nots, the dejected, the mentally awash, the orphans of rural life propelled by the depression to the doorsteps of the city, alone, uncertain, afraid." The Wild Man from Sugar Creek is based in large part on interviews with living contemporaries of Talmadge, so that the books' central character comes alive in much the same way that Huey Long does in T. Harry Williams' prize-winning biography of the Louisiana political figure.

About this title

About the Author:

William Anderson is a native of Athens, Georgia. He studied at the University of Georgia, receiving an M.A. degree in journalism in 1969. He is president of an advertising agency in Atlanta.

About this edition

• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0807100889
• ISBN 13: 9780807100882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268