Correction.

Due to a typesetting error in our October issue, the last line was dropped from Taylor Branch's book review on page 51. Here is the last paragraph of his piece in its entirety: "Nixon knew that Wallace voters were becoming natural Republicans. With revenue sharing--his version of today's block grants--Nixon moved from Lincoln Republicanism toward a posture compatible with Wallace's version of states' rights. From his sickbed, Wallace watched the white South follow the path he had marked toward an anti-government ideology that the Republican party adopted. For more than a century, his Democrats had straddled a core identity that upheld both the common people and the segregated South. Now segregation was being lost, formally, and at...

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