Henry Adams and the Southern Question. By Michael O'Brien. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, No. 47. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 199. $34.95, ISBN 0-82032711-5.)

Michael O'Brien addresses the "Southern Question" as it pertained to Henry Adams, who put his own stamp on it in his "notorious slur": "Strictly, the Southerner had no mind; he had temperament. He was not a scholar; he had no intellectual training; he could not analyze an idea, and he could not even conceive of admitting two" (The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography [Boston, ...

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