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Hoke Smith and the Politics of the New South
Häftad, 1967
353 kr
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Cutting across the Bourbon Era, the Populist Revolt, and the Progressive Movement, Hoke Smith's career gave expression to the Southern politics of his generation. In Hoke Smith and the Politics of the New South, Dewey Grantham examines in detail the central role of this leader as a key to the …
John a. Quitman
Old South Crusader
Häftad, 1985
344 kr
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The premier secessionist of antebellum Mississippi, John A. Quitman was one of the half-dozen or so most prominent radicals in the entire South. In this full-length biography, Robert E. May takes issue with the recent tendency to portray secessionists as rabble-rousing, maladjusted outsiders bent …
James Henry Hammond and the Old South
A Design for Mastery
Häftad, 1985
475 kr
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From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864 as Sherman's troops marched in triumph toward South Carolina, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom of the Old South. Planter, politician, and partisan of slavery, Hammond built a career for himself that in its breadth and …
War and Healing
Stanhope Bayne-Jones and the Maturing of American Medicine
Inbunden, 1992
585 kr
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New Orleans-born Stanhope Bayne-Jones was one of the pivotal figures in the modernization of American medicine. Through his life story Albert E. Cowdrey's War and Healing dramatizes the growth of American medicine from a provincial and amateurish state into a major national endeavor. Cowdrey shows …
Earl K. Long
The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics
Av Michael L. Kurtz, Morgan D. Peoples
Häftad, 1991
353 kr
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In a region famous for its flamboyant politicians, Earl K. Long was one of the most flamboyant of them all. This first full-scale biography of the former Louisiana governor explores his controversial life-style and his strong family ties, his raw humor and his political savvy, his abuse of power …
General Edmund Kirby Smith, C.S.a.
Häftad, 1992
469 kr
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This book is meaty, succinct, well organised, and attractively written. It is a praiseworthy contribution to American biography and to Confederate history."" - Bell I. WileyHere is the first critical biography of the Confederate general who commanded the largest theater of the Civil War, the …
Mary Boykin Chesnut
A Biography
Häftad, 1992
399 kr
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In her admirable biography of Mary Chesnut, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld has American literature as well as American history in her debt."" - C. Vann WoodwardMary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-1886) is known today for her excellent firsthand account of life in the Confederate States of America. A Diary from …
Zachary Taylor
Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest
Häftad, 1993
415 kr
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Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor ""was and remains an enigma."" He was a southerner who espoused many antisouthern causes, an aristocrat with a strong …
John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union
A Biography
Av John Niven
Häftad, 1993
353 kr
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John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) was one of the prominent figure of American politics in the first half of the nineteenth century. The son of a slaveholding South Carolina family, he served in the federal government in various capacities, as senator from his home state, as secretary of war and secretary …
John Brown Gordon
Soldier, Southerner, American
Häftad, 1993
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414 kr
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John Brown Gordon's career of prominent public service spanned four of America's most turbulent decades. Born in Upson County, Georgia, in 1832, Gordon practiced law in Atlanta and, in the years immediately preceding the Civil War, developed coal mines in northwest Georgia. In 1861, he responded to …
P. G. T. Beauregard
Napoleon in Gray
Häftad, 1995
462 kr
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First published in 1955 to wide acclaim, T. Harry Williams' P. G. T. Beauregard is universally regarded as ""the first authoritative portrait of the Confederacy's always dramatic, often perplexing"" general (Chicago Tribune). Chivalric, arrogant, and of exotic Creole Louisiana origin, Beauregard …
Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia
A Biography
Häftad, 1996
462 kr
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Winner Of The Jefferson Davis Award Rising from humble origins in the middle Georgia cotton belt, Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883) became one of the South's leading politicians and lawyers. Thomas E. Schott has written the first scholarly biography that analyses the interplay between the public …
George Washington
A Biography
Häftad, 1996
414 kr
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In this highly acclaimed and enduring biography, John R. Alden traces the interwoven histories of George Washington and the nation he helped to create, defend, and guide toward the future. Alden revisits the major events of Washington's personal and professional life, including his boyhood in rural …
Ossian Bingley Hart, Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor
Inbunden, 1997
603 kr
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In this exceptional biography, Canter Brown, Jr., removes Ossian Bingley Hart (1821-1874), a Unionist, the principal founder of the Republican Party in Florida, and a Reconstruction-era governor of the state, from the shadows of history. Through an examination of Hart's life and career, Brown …
Carter G. Woodson
A Life in Black History
Häftad, 1997
353 kr
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Born in rural Virginia during Reconstruction, Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) was a central figure in black history and an important American scholar. In 1912, he became the first and only individual of slave parentage to earn a Ph.D. in history. In 1915 he founded the Association for the Study of …
Edward Douglass White
Defender of the Conservative Faith
Häftad, 1999
294 kr
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Elite, personable, and persuasive, Edward Douglass White, a ''large and bearish man from Louisiana,'' served on the United States Supreme Court for twenty-seven years. During his tenure, first as an associate justice (1894-1910) and then as the ninth chief justice (1910-1921), White significantly …
Joseph E. Brown of Georgia
Häftad, 1999
353 kr
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Joseph Brown was a pivotal figure in southern history and a prototype of a new breed of southern politician in the mid-nineteenth century-the hill country newcomer who was considered to represent the ""common man.""As governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, Brown enthusiastically supported the …
David French Boyd
Founder of Louisiana State University
Häftad, 1999
353 kr
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David Boyd's biography is the story of one man's dedicated struggle to protect and preserve Louisiana's fledgling state university from the cumulative effects of war, Reconstruction, political hostility, and parochial greed. Boyd fought hard to promote his vision of higher education among a largely …
Percys of Mississippi
Politics and Literature in the New South
Av Lewis Baker
Häftad, 1999
353 kr
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Set in the twilight years of southern aristocracy, The Percys of Mississippi is a biography of a family in whose bloodline ran both a strong commitment to public service and an equally strong but more private dedication to literature. Following four generations of Percy family history, Lewis Baker …
Maverick Republican in the Old North State
A Political Biography of Daniel L. Russell
Av Jeffrey J. Crow, Robert F. Durden
Häftad, 1999
294 kr
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Daniel Russell is a good example of what Carl Degler has termed ""the other South."" The son of an aristocratic eastern North Carolina family of staunch Whig-Unionists, he entered politics when the Republican party first appeared in the state after the Civil War. For more than forty years …
William Henry Drayton
South Carolina Revolutionary Patriot
Inbunden, 2001
662 kr
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In this exhaustive biography, Keith Krawczynski details the political and social career of William Henry Drayton (1742-1779), an ambitious, wealthy lowcountry planter and zealous patriot leader who was at the center of Revolutionary activity in South Carolina from 1774 until his death five years …
Genteel Rebel
The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee
Häftad, 2003
415 kr
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This elegantly written biography depicts the combined effect of social structure, character, and national crisis on a woman's life. Mary Greenhow Lee (1819-1907) was raised in a privileged Virginia household. As a young woman, she flirted with President Van Buren's son, drank tea with Dolley …
James Hamilton of South Carolina
Inbunden, 2004
722 kr
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An esteemed planter, politician, and military leader influential in the affairs of both South Carolina and Texas, James Hamilton (1786-1857) so declined in reputation during the last twenty years of his life that his home state refused to acknowledge him when he died. Robert Tinkler's superb, …
Senator Albert Gore, Sr.
Tennessee Maverick
Av Kyle Longley
Inbunden, 2004
603 kr
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Best remembered as the father of Vice President Al Gore, Albert Gore, Sr., worked tirelessly in politics himself, a Democratic congressman and senator from 1939 to 1971 and a representative of southern liberalism and American reformism. In the first comprehensive biography of Gore, Kyle Longley has …
Notorious Woman
The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines
Häftad, 2004
469 kr
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The legal crusade of Myra Clark Gaines (1804?-1885) has all the trappings of classic melodrama - a lost heir, a missing will, an illicit relationship, a questionable marriage, a bigamous husband, and a murder. For a half century the daughter of New Orleans millionaire Daniel Clark struggled to …
Moses Levy of Florida
Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer
Av C. S. Monaco
Inbunden, 2005
543 kr
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Moses Elias Levy (1782-1854) was one of the antebellum South's most influential and interesting Jewish citizens. Only recently, however, have historians begun to appreciate his role as a social activist. C. S. Monaco discovered Levy's Plan for the Abolition of Slavery in the late 1990s, and now, in …
American Planter
Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York
Inbunden, 2006
550 kr
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Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan (1787-1867) was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War America. In this, the first biography of Duncan, Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling new portrait of …
Bernice Kelly Harris
A Good Life Was Writing
Häftad, 2001
350 kr
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The seven novels of North Carolina writer Bernice Kelly Harris (1894-1973) were published to international acclaim in the 1940s, and her plays were produced on television in the 1950s. Yet, despite her success at midlife, she spent her last years struggling to make ends meet and was virtually …
Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood
Understanding the Life and Death of Richard Reid
Häftad, 2006
353 kr
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When attorney John Jay Cornelison severely beat Kentucky Superior Court judge Richard Reid in public on April 16, 1884, for allegedly injuring his< honor, the event became front-page news. Would Reid react as a Christian gentleman, a man of the law, and let the legal system take its course, or …
Southern Outcast
Hinton Rowan Helper and the Impending Crisis of the South
Av David Brown
Inbunden, 2006
603 kr
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Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909) gained notoriety in nineteenth-century America as the author of The Impending Crisis of the South (1857), an antislavery polemic that provoked national public controversy and increased sectional tensions. In his intellectual and cultural biography of Helper - the …
