Review
...it would be both wise and chastening to read this entire masterly volume, which presents a rare and enlightened view of both our perils and our opportunities.
--Otto Scott --
The Compass...the compelling quality of these essays speaks broadly to the most vital issues of our national identity and history ... a book that any American could read with profit and pleasure. And I see it as the ideal gift for any young person perplexed by what the late Andrew Lytle called "the present confusion."
--J.O. Tate --
Chronicles: A Magazine of American CultureProfessor Wilson is an obstreperous soldier in the great Jacobin wars that have plagued the nation.... The book succeeds magnificently ... must reading for every American interested in the true principles and virtues of republicanism.
Robert C. Cheeks --
Human EventsThe range of topics that Wilson covers here is impressive, and he invariably has something interesting to say.... This volume of essays ... is something to celebrate.
--Thomas E. Woods, Jr. --
The American ConservativeThis generous collection of Clyde Wilson's essays and reviews, a publishing event that should have occurred long ago, places him on the same level with all the unreconstructed greats in modern Southern letters: Donald Davidson, Andrew Lytle, Frank L. Owsley, Richard Weaver, and M.E. Bradford.
--Joe Scotchie, editor of
The Paleoconservatives --
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Product Description
Defending Dixie is a selection from Dr. Clyde Wilson's voluminous writings about the South---past, present, and future---over a period of more than thirty years. The admiring view of Dixie presented here is rare at the present day. Dr. Wilson writes from a belief that the South is a living and long-lasting reality that continues to offer a valuable alternative vision to Americans of the 21st century. More importantly, as he says of Dixie, "there are plenty of good people who love her still."