Volume 29, Number 18 · November 18, 1982
The Primal Code
By C. Vann Woodward
Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
by Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Oxford University Press, 597 pp., $29.95
By viewing the past from the present, historians know full well (or they should) the risks they run of distorting the vision of what they describe. The greater the contrast between present and past, the greater the risks of distortion. The dangers are further intensified when the moral foundations of the present order rest, even remotely, on the ruins of the old order being described.
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