Book Reviews : The Southern Political Scene, 1938-1948. Edited by TAYLOR COLE and JOHN H. HALLOWELL. (Gainesville, Florida: The Journal of Politics, University of Florida. Distributed by Kallman Publishing Co. Pp. 332. $2.00.) The People's Choice. By PAUL F. LAZARSFELD, BERNARD BERELSON, and HAZEL GAUDET. (New York: Columbia University Press. 1948. Second Edition. Pp. xxx, 178. $2.75.)

• Published date: 01 December 1951
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295100400432
• Author: Boyd A. Martin
• Date: 01 December 1951
• Subject Matter: Articles

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may be traced in its origin to President Hoover’s pre-inaugural good will
tour to the area, rather than to President Roosevelt’s administration during
which the new policy received much wider public recognition.
Professor DeConde takes a sympathetic attitude toward the Hoover-
Roosevelt policy of recognizing as de jure all Latin-American de facto
governments. However, there are many Latin Americans who point out
that recognition of a dictatorship amounts to intervention, for it gives the
aura of respectability to militarists. Nevertheless, the book is valuable
for the information it contains.
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HARRY KANTOR.
Eastern Washington College of Education.
The Southern Political Scene, 1938-1948. Edited by TAYLOR COLE and
JOHN H. HALLOWELL. (Gainesville, Florida: The Journal of Politics,
University of Florida. Distributed by Kallman Publishing Co. Pp. 332.
$2.00.)
The People’s Choice. By PAUL F. LAZARSFELD, BERNARD BERELSON, and
HAZEL GAUDET. (New York: Columbia University Press. 1948. Second
Edition. Pp. xxx, 178. $2.75.)
The South is much talked about and, little understood. This area
is passing through some of the most difficult changes in the Western
world-a rapid change from a predominately agricultural society to an
industrial society, a rapid change from a rural to an urban society, and
adjustment to changing racial problems. The editors, Professor Taylor
Cole, a southerner, and Professor John H. Hallowell, a westerner now
living in the South, combined the efforts of a group of highly qualified
authors to write this collection of essays on current developments in the
southern political scene. The chapters cover a range from social change,
governmental organizations, governmental development, state, local, and
national politics, to government planning. Although no such undertaking
as V. O. Key’s Southern Politics in State and Nation (New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1949), it makes a very definite contribution to the growing
political literature concerning the...