Synopses & Reviews
The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the tensions between these complexand often opposingattitudes.
Review
Ownby's re-creation of male recreation is rich and fascinating.
Nation
Review
[Ownby] gives us guideposts in the ongoing search for the meaning of southern history.
Journal of Southern History
Review
Ownby gets us right to the heart of white culture in the South between Reconstruction and the 1920s.
Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia
Synopsis
In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby contends that the everyday cultural lives of rural white Southerners in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolved around these two opposing complexes of attitudes.