in the same way. >> professor joseph lowndes of the university of oregon "from the new deal to the newn catapano is editor in chief of the university of illinois press, with new books does the university have coming out this year? >> actually all of the posters on the table top display here, these are all brand new books and as you can see we have a series of new books coming out on african-american history including this biography of sojourner truth. a biography of of it t. r. m. howard it in early civil-rights one. >> two enzi? >> actually a conservative civil-rights advocates that doesn't get the sort of attention and respect he should the. but with an instrumental in moving toward a lot of sort of a black agenda as in the south. >> joan catapano, why did you decide that sojourner truth needed another biography at this time? >> the author has a new and unusual angle, it's different from the ones published recently in is a substantial biography so she touches on new material that other people have been treated in the past in. >> and what other books would you like to point out? >> we

. >> joseph lowndes, what is the southern strategy? how would you define that?>> when people refer to the southern strategy they begin with either goldwater or nixon, and the idea is number republicans hope to win over southern voters and win southern states and national elections by pushing the race issue, by articulating kind of either coated or open language for nixon's antidustin, for goldwater its opposition to the civil rights bill. so that's what people refer to when they talk about the southern strategy. but again, what is missed in that is the agency and activity of southerners themselves who help is on the table and provide a language of racial politics that will play not just in the south but in, you know, gary, indiana and the troy, michigan, and in baltimore, maryland and philadelphia, pennsylvania where issues of open housing, open unions, other anti-discrimination measures and things that are focused directly on race potentially can reap a broad white audience. >> so how do you get from the new deal to the new light today? >> to the new deal to th

joseph lowndes in your new book from the new deal to the new light, to argue that modern conservatism was founded in the south. why? >> the reason i make that claim is i think often people talk about a southern strategy and capture of the south by the gop in the 1960's beginning with conwell, beginning with goldwater and then mixing's 72e election but in some ways it is the reverse. southerners play a key role in the development first of the conservative capture of the republican party itself, and then of republican ascendance nationally. i think in certain ways a combination of segregationist politics and more economic conservatism were blended over time by various political actors in a way that allowed an national language of resentment and opposition to federal-state power in the democratic party generally. >> two questions arise from that answer. number one, how did they planned and when did this begin? >> i think the story begins decisively in the 1940's. in the 1930's in congress there's a conservative coalition which comes together after 1936 to resist some of fdr's political i

. >> here's a look at sum up coming book fairs and festivals, over the next few months: >> joseph lowndes in your book "from the new deal to the new right" you argue modern conservatism was founded in the south. why. >> the reason i make the claim is often people talk about southern strategy and the capture of the south by the g.o.p., after the 1960s, beginning with goldwater and then, in nixon's 72 election, but i think in some ways, the situation is the reverse, that southerners played a key role in the development, both first in the conservative capture of the republican party itself, and, then, republican ascendence nationally and in certain ways, a combination of southern segregationist politics and northern economic conservatism were blended over time by various political actors in a way that allowed national language of kind of racial resentment and opposition to federal state power and the democratic party generally. >> well, two questions arise from the answer, number one, how did they blend and when did this begin? >> i think the story begins, decisively in the 1940s, the 1930s