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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
These previously unpublished diaries of Hammond, an antebellum parvenu South Carolina politician, planter and staunch advocate of an independent South who served as U.S. senator and governor of South Carolina, provide a startlingly candid insight into a brilliant but ruthlessly ambitious, tyrannical man who was also a keen observer and critic of the Old South and its plantation aristocracy. Hammond's uncontrolled sensuality, which he indulged with his slaves and his own nieces, caused not only estrangement from his wife but proved politically self-destructive. In his journals, skillfully edited by Bleser ( The Hammonds of Redcliffe ), this admittedly frustrated novelist gave vent to his anger, dreams and self-pity, comparing himself to Sisyphus and blaming everyone including God for his failures. Also vividly portrayed are the suffering and disruption of plantation life during the Civil War and Hammond's growing despair at his own decadence and the defeat of his beloved South.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
These remarkable diaries, covering the years 1841-62, rank among the most intriguing, revealing, and infuriating personal accounts to come out of the South. Hammond, whom Louis Rubin has likened to Faulkner's Thomas Sutpen in Absalom, Absalom!, emerges more as William Byrd II, of Westover, perhaps the greatest Southern diarist, in that Hammond and Byrd hardly disguised their narcissism and self-indulgence. Hammond is aggressively acquisitive, sexually overactive, and rabidly pro-slavery and secessionist. No short review can suggest the richness of these diaries. Essential reading for anyone who hopes to plumb the mind and soul (or soullessness) of the planter class. Randall M. Miller, St. Joseph's Univ., Philadelphia
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
These previously unpublished diaries of Hammond, an antebellum parvenu South Carolina politician, planter and staunch advocate of an independent South who served as U.S. senator and governor of South Carolina, provide a startlingly candid insight into a brilliant but ruthlessly ambitious, tyrannical man who was also a keen observer and critic of the Old South and its plantation aristocracy. Hammond's uncontrolled sensuality, which he indulged with his slaves and his own nieces, caused not only estrangement from his wife but proved politically self-destructive. In his journals, skillfully edited by Bleser ( The Hammonds of Redcliffe ), this admittedly frustrated novelist gave vent to his anger, dreams and self-pity, comparing himself to Sisyphus and blaming everyone including God for his failures. Also vividly portrayed are the suffering and disruption of plantation life during the Civil War and Hammond's growing despair at his own decadence and the defeat of his beloved South.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
These remarkable diaries, covering the years 1841-62, rank among the most intriguing, revealing, and infuriating personal accounts to come out of the South. Hammond, whom Louis Rubin has likened to Faulkner's Thomas Sutpen in Absalom, Absalom!, emerges more as William Byrd II, of Westover, perhaps the greatest Southern diarist, in that Hammond and Byrd hardly disguised their narcissism and self-indulgence. Hammond is aggressively acquisitive, sexually overactive, and rabidly pro-slavery and secessionist. No short review can suggest the richness of these diaries. Essential reading for anyone who hopes to plumb the mind and soul (or soullessness) of the planter class. Randall M. Miller, St. Joseph's Univ., Philadelphia
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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