Table of Contents:
  • The evil of this philosophy : Frederick Porcher and the Southern critique of progress, 1831-1860
  • I shook off my slumber : Frederick Porcher and the postwar conservative view
  • The public business is ours : Edward McCrady, Jr. and the challenge from below, 1865-1900
  • Nearly hopeless of ever elevating either Negroes or crackers : Theodore Jervey, Jr. and the new century
  • How can one-- not be Tory or Junker? : William Watts Ball and the war years, 1914-1945
  • Epilogue : the party of our fathers is dead : conservatives at mid-century.