Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South

This book discusses how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized a romanticized version of life on the plantation.

Eugene D. Genovese is a retired professor of history. He served as chair of the Department of History at the University of Rochester and taught at other institutions. He also served as president of the Organization of American Historians and of The Historical Society and he was a member of the Executive Council of the American Historical Society. He is the author of nine other books, most recently Miss Betsey: A Memoir of Marriage.