“Oscar Underwood deserves the careful details and candid assessment given him by Evans Johnson [as] the only man since Henry Clay to lead his party in both houses of Congress. . . . This book [is] a solid definitive study.”—Martha H. Swain, Texas Women's University, in the Journal of Southern History
“Faithfully reflects its subject, a skilled legislator. . . . The final chapter ‘The Pattern of a Bourbon Elitist,’ stands as an independent biographical essay and satisfactorily summarizes Underwood’s career. A complete political biography.”—Alabama Review
"The biography is meticulous and detailed....the most complete study we shall have concerning a pivotal figure in the important years between Populism and the New Deal." --Wayne Flynt, professor emeritus of history at Auburn University and the author of Poor But Proud: Alabama’s Poor Whites and Alabama in the Twentieth Century.