Carol Polsgrove

Carol Polsgrove, author of Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil
Rights Movement,
is a journalism professor at Indiana University, Bloomington.
She grew up in Nigeria, then a British colony.

Recent Articles

Posner Proves His Case

Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline By Richard A.
Posner. Harvard University Press, 408 pages, $29.95

Southern Exposures

The Last Days: A Son's Story of Sin and Segregation at the Dawn of the New South, by Charles Marsh. Basic Books, 294 pages, $25.00.

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama/The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, by Diane McWhorter. Simon and Schuster, 701 pages, $35.00.