TY - JOUR
AU - Willis, John C.
AB - Book Reviews Since the 1960s, he argues, elections have forced behind a mask of unremitting self­ become centered on candidates "rather than interest. The historiography of the nine­ teenth -century South now verges on self­ being a contest between the relative strength of the two parties in mobilizing their support­ inflicted irony: if "planters" and "merchants" ers on behalf of their nominees." The Van were so obvious, so predictable, so easily iden­ Burenite modern mass party rested on the tified as individuals and as a group, how thor­ principle that the party principle -loyalty to oughly can we sympathize with their oft­ the organization - took precedence over the duped victims? people in it. But from the 1960s on the parties Bertram Wyatt-Brown does not claim the lost control over campaigns, and candidate­ mantle of revisionist in his latest book, The centered campaigns prevailed. In the back­ House of Percy, but this complex work is ground, however, the "party-in-service" pro­ a stunning contradiction to stereotypes of vides crucial support to candidates and does wealthy southerners. Even though his subjects so through national party organizations that sprang from the same root and shared a privi­ are now more powerful, with 
TI - The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family. By Bertram Wyatt-Brown. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xviii, 454 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-505626-4.)
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2945505
DA - 1996-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-house-of-percy-honor-melancholy-and-imagination-in-a-southern-2r6lyEm3rO
SP - 185
EP - 186
VL - 83
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -