The Washington Post, July 31st, 1988
LISTER HILL Statesman From the South By Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton University of North Carolina Press 375 pp. $24.95 LAST YEAR, on the eve of closing out a Senate career of more than four decades, John Stennis of Mississippi voted against the confirmation of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court at a time when Bork had come to symbolize the Reagan administration's retrenchment on civil rights. That Stennis and almost every other Democratic senator from the South could and did vote that way epitomized both the region's new political battleground and the liberation given its congressional D...
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