Harry Byrd of Virginiais a non-fiction book, published in 1996 byUniversity Press of Virginiaby Ronald L. Heinemann, concerningHarry F. Byrd.
James R. Sweeney ofOld Dominion Universitywrote that the author "portrays Byrd as an unrelenting negativist whose convictions remained fixed as the world around him changed",[1]and that overall the work is an "unflattering portrait of an essentially humorless and defensive" individual,[2]although Heinemann also viewed Byrd as having, in Sweeney's words, "integrity".[1]
Reception
editWilliam A. Link ofUniversity of North Carolina, Greensborowrote that the book "is a carefully written, fully documented study" that has "terse, well-considered, and balanced judgments."[3]
Sweeney wrote that the book is "a major contribution to the literature on American politics."[1]
References
edit- Sweeney, James (Fall 1997). "Byrd of Virginia".The Historian.60(1): 132–133.JSTOR24451573.
- Link, William A. (December 1, 1999). "Jack Irby Hayes, Jr. Dan Daniel and the Persistence of Conservatism in Virginia. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press. 1997. Pp. xi, 258. $35.00 and Ronald L. Heinemann. Harry Byrd of Virginia. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 1996. Pp. x, 511".The American Historical Review:1714–1715.doi:10.2307/2649452.JSTOR2649452.
Notes
edit- ^abcSweeney,The Historian,p. 132.
- ^Sweeney,The Historian,p. 133.
- ^Link, p. 1715.
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