Volume 33, Number 4 · March 13, 1986
The Sound and the Fury
By Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History
by C. Vann Woodward
Louisiana State University Press, 158 pp., $12.95
Few other American historians living today command the respect of his colleagues that C. Vann Woodward rightfully enjoys. The Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale has received all the honors that the academy can offer. He won them fairly, has taken them seriously, wears them lightly. The admiration rests not upon the substance of his work alone but also upon the manner of the man. Although Thinking Back is not an autobiography, it provides insight into the life of the working scholar, and illuminates his approach and contribution to southern history.
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