WSJ review of the new Jesse Helms bio, authored by my former UNCG history professor.
From the review:
Conservatives can also take solace that, on matters where Jesse Helms was in the wrong, he almost always, in the long run, failed. But where he did achieve lasting success, he was usually not just on the right but in the right, to the benefit of his country.
Via The Locker Room.
Update: NYT review:
“Righteous Warrior” should stand as the go-to biography of Helms for some time. Not only will Link’s thorough research and dutiful reconstruction of Helms’s career deter successors, but his core analysis is hard to dispute. “If you want to call me a bigot, fine,” Helms himself once growled, while ranting against a Clinton administration appointee for being “a damn lesbian.” Link is too dispassionate and fair-minded a historian to make this book a monochromatic portrait in bigotry.
