Also see my response to this blog and my blog on the matter as well about how it plays in Mike Hubbard's Alabama.
Gourley does a respectable job here, but his piece on Bleaching, cover story of recent New Republic in his Doctoral advisor Wayne Flynt's Alabama; well that's the more important piece informed by )ct 9 print issue of NY Rev of Books by Thomas Powers.
We're all still waiting on that one
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