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Kennedy, Randall, Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (New York: Pantheon, 2008).
Steele, Shelby, A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win (New York: Free Press, 2008).
Oakes, James, The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders (New York: Knopf, 1982) ("How did the slaveholding class, which was molded by the same forces that shaped the nation, which fought America's wars and helped inspire its Revolution, a class which boasted of its patriotism, its devotion to freedom, its adherence to the major tenets of liberalism--how did such a class justify its continuing commitment to slavery and remain so steadfast in that commitment that it willingly separated from the Union it had helped create? In short, how could the slaveholders' ideology prove so malleable as to reinforce simultaneously their devotion to black slavery and to democratic freedom? It is here, in the triumph of the slaveholders' liberalism, that the legacy of slavery becomes a truly American dilemma." Id. at x-xi.).
