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    On the Temper of the Times: Jack Bass: An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue
    On the Temper of the Times: Jack Bass: An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue
    On the Temper of the Times: Jack Bass: An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue
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    On the Temper of the Times: Jack Bass: An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue

    By J. Ferrel Guillory

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    Of all the women ever romantically linked to Strom Thurmond, none was as deadly as Sue Logue. The judge who sentenced her to the electric chair for murder called her crime 'the most cold-blooded in the history of the state.'"

    This article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.

    Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUNC Center for the Study of the American South
    Release dateSep 1, 2012
    ISBN9781469607337
    On the Temper of the Times: Jack Bass: An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue
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    J. Ferrel Guillory

    J. Ferrel Guillory directs the Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is a lecturer at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He was formerly southern correspondent, government affairs editor, Washington correspondent, editorial page editor, and columnist at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. He also has written for The Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, America, The New Republic, and a variety of Southern magazines, journals, and newspapers. He is a contributor to books on public policy, tobacco in transition, and the politics of race.

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      On the Temper of the Times - J. Ferrel Guillory

      Voices from the Southern Oral History Program

      On the Temper of the Times

      Jack Bass

      INTERVIEWED BY FERREL GUILLORY

      Jack Bass’s unplanned life brings insights about the Southern Strategy and the colorful and not-so-secret lives of Strom Thurmond, as well as memories of working with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interviewing Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and much more. Thurmond and Reagan, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

      In 2011, Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life, sat down with his friend and colleague Jack Bass, a distinguished journalist and the author of several books on the South, including the influential The Transformation of Southern Politics. Bass discussed the advantages of his small-town roots, finding a career in journalism that coincided with the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement, and even his own short-lived foray into politics. His unplanned life brought insights about the Southern Strategy and the colorful and not-so-secret lives of Strom Thurmond, as well as memories of working with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interviewing Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and much more. He also previewed his next book, which provides a historical context for the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that has allowed corporations to make large contributions as independent expenditures in the 2012 campaign.

      A SMALL TOWN CALLED NORTH

      Ferrel Guillory: Tell me about North, South Carolina.

      Jack Bass: I grew up in North. North was named for Colonel John North, who was one of three men who gave most of the land for the town, and he had been a lance corporal in the Civil War. He was no doubt a colonel in the Confederate Veterans Association, and his granddaughter worked in my father’s store.

      I was the youngest of seven. My father, Nathan Bass, was an immigrant from Lithuania. He was quite successful until the boll weevil came through in the 1920s. Then he left and stayed for a little while in Morristown, New Jersey, then

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