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Published March 2004 | Published
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A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia [Book Review]

Abstract

Despite the widespread impression that anyone can teach history, and almost anyone can write it, the talents of lawyers and historians are actually rather disjoint. Historians are typically distance runners, mulling alone for years over obscure primary sources to come up with lengthy, sometimes deep, but rarely dazzling narratives. They synthesize; they write books. In contrast, attorneys are sprinters, working on tight deadlines, usually handling too many cases in too many areas of the law, rarely having either the time or the inclination to make sense of it all. They cross-examine; they write briefs.

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© 2004 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Book review of: A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia / Laughlin McDonald. Cambridge University Press: 2003. ISBN: 9780521812320.

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