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| AUTHOR: | Jack Bass, Marilyn W. Thompson |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | University of South Carolina Press |
| ISBN: | 1570035148 |
| TYPE: | Biography & Autobiography, Biography / Autobiography, Biography/Autobiography, Government - U.S. Government, Political |
| MEDIA: | Hardcover |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of Ol' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond
A Southern-born political scientist's dream This book tells the public and private sides of Senator Strom Thurmond. I wasn't sure whether the authors liked or disliked the Senator. That was great! This is a must-read for anyone who wants to appreciate the true Statesman of South Carolina.
Very readable biography of a fascinating political figure
This book does a marvelous job capturing the essence of Strom Thurmond, political master. The book is concise but complete, very well written and readable. Knowing Sen. Thurmond ran for President as a Dixiecrat in 1948 and some of his race baiting campaigns of the 1950s, I have always had a negative impression. This book exposed me to a much broader perspective - Thurmond's liberalism at county education superintendent, providing adult literacy classes to both blacks and whites in the 1920s, his record as governor in the 1940s insisting of the fair prosecution of whites involved in South Carolina's last lynching, and a political career that now spans seven decades. The book could be a text on how to campaign aggressively for public office, using Thurmond as an example; or a text on superior constituent service, using Thurmond as an example; or a text on political endurance or courage, using Thurmond as an example. The book describes authoritatively his womanizing, not limited to his two wives (the first wife was 21 when they married, he was 44; second wife was 22 when they married, he was 66). The authors really know their subject well, having covered his campaigns and public service for decades, and having conducted numerous interviews with family, friends and former close aides. Strom Thurmond will be 100 years old when his current term ends, and he is still effective in the U. S. Senate. Reading this book helps greatly to explain why.
Great book!
This goes to show that a powerful man like Strom Thurmond can use and abuse women beneath him and has gotten away with it because of his position. Don't get me started on how he took advantage of a black teenage maid and at first didn't support his offspring until 1941. I'll say more about it later. However, I do think Strom Thurmond had that madonna/whore complex when it comes to women in his life. He wanted to have fun with women whom he considered beneath him, yet married virginal nubile beauty queens.
I want people to read that book. It shatters every myth regarding Mr. Thurmond.