Patch Video Interview: Joseph Crespino

A very good case could be made that Strom Thurmond was the most influential Southern Republican in the last half of the 20th Century. Joseph Crespino, a professor of History at Emory University, takes up that argument and others regarding the life and times of South Carolina's most famous politician in "Strom Thurmond's America."

In our latest video interview we talked with Prof. Crespino about Thurmond's lengthy career and his legacy in the Republican Party.

Crespino's book has been widely praised, receiving strong reviews in The New York Review of Books and Publisher's Weekly, among others.

The book can be purchased here.