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Academics Weigh in on Brooks Article

David Brooks' New York Times column about presidential candidate Reagan's speech in Philadelphia, MS in 1980 has been widely discredited as just another GOP whitewash. There is one more post, however that merits a read, Joseph Crespino's article at the History News Network. Crespino, an Emory History proff and author of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution, has a few more points to make on the subject, including a report that Reagan was endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan newspaper and rejected it only after a Carter Administration cabinet official publicized it. Other academics respond to Crespino's article in the comments.

Posted by J. P. Green on November 14, 2007 12:34 PM

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Thanks for the Crespino link. Good article.

Posted by: ducdebrabant | November 15, 2007 01:09 PM

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