Books by James R. McGovern

First published in 1982, James R. McGovern's Anatomy of a Lynching unflinchingly reconstructs the grim events surrounding the death of Claude Neal, one of the estimated three thousand blacks who died at the hands of southern lynch mobs in the six decades between the 1880s and the outbreak of World War II.

This work aims to provide an alternative view of 1930s America, by arguing that, despite hard times, Americans faced the Depression with characteristic resilience and optimism. It looks at US value and support systems, religious life and the role of FDR in the New Deal.