Jack Bass, director of the Citadel Alumni World War II Oral History Project, is a professor emeritus of humanities and social sciences at the College of Charleston. He is the author or coauthor of seven other books about the American South, including Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond, The Transformation of Southern Politics, and Taming the Storm, winner of the 1994 Robert Kennedy Book Award. Bass served as executive editor for the fourteen-part television series The American South Comes of Age. He was twice named South Carolina Journalist of the Year and was