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Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! The True History of the South

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2009

Tim Parrish
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In December 2002, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott attended the 100th birthday celebration of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond and said something he had said many times before: that the nation “wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years” had Thurmond been elected President in 1948.

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Prospects , Volume 29 , October 2005 , pp. 325 - 359
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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