During the Jim Crow era, the Democratic Party dominated the American South, presiding over a racially segregated society while also playing an outsized role in

Southern-style politics was one of those peculiar institutions that differentiated the South from other American regions. This system -- long referred to as the

Southern-style politics was one of those peculiar institutions that differentiated the South from other American regions. This system—long referred to as the

Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.

A glorious debut that T.C. Boyle calls "powerful and deeply moving" that follows two young Mormon missionaries in Brazil and their tense, peculiar friendship. E