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3 unusual facts about Joseph Crespino


Joseph Crespino

Crespino is the author of Strom Thurmond’s America (Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of the longtime U.S. Senator from South Carolina.

His other book, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton, 2007), won the 2008 Lillian Smith Book Award by the Southern Regional Council, the McLemore Prize for the Best Mississippi History Book, and the nonfiction prize given by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.

Mississippi Association of Independent Schools

Historian Joseph Crespino has stated that members of the White Citizens' Council "doubtless" played a role in the founding of the Association.



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