James C. Cobb is B. Phinizy Spalding Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Georgia.
Cobb's work aims to be the definitive biography of Woodward. It
succeeds. . . . This book is good reading for anyone."--Arkansas
Historical Quarterly
Cobb's biography is a masterpiece. . . . deeply researched,
movingly written, and thought-provoking. . . . Cobb's confident
command of every part of the story, his exquisite selection of
quotations, and the way he blends sophisticated analysis with
folksy jabs keep the reader captivated."--Journal of Southern
History
A fresh and revealing biography."--South Carolina Public Radio
A richly detailed biography . . . A rewarding read for scholars of
Southern and 20th-century historical references in the United
States."--Library Journal
Cobb comments intelligently on Woodward's many scholarly works and
essays. He is particularly sensitive to the ways in which Woodward,
in writing about historical events, was also working out his own
loyalties as a Southerner."--Wall Street Journal
Drawing on his subject's writings and his voluminous papers at
Yale, where Woodward taught from 1961 to 1977, Cobb portrays a
scholar impatient with the mythologies, distortions and misguided
hero worship that for most of the 20th century inhibited discussion
of the South's many problems."--Eric Foner, London Review of Books
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