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Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow
UPF 2006; US$ 34.95Through the political biography of George W. Murray, one sees the myriad forces arrayed against southern Republicanism in the late nineteenth century and also witnesses the trials and tribulations one of the major African American political leaders faced in the quest for racial justice in the new South. more...
Zeb Vance
The University of North Carolina Press 2004; US$ 58.95In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure than has been previously recognized. Vance campaigned to keep North Carolina in the Union, but... more...
Fighting Bob La Follette
The University of North Carolina Press 2000; US$ 40.95Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette (1855-1925) was one of the most significant leaders of American progressivism. Nancy Unger integrates previously unknown details from La Follette's personal life with important events from his storied political career, revealing a complex man who was a compelling mixture of failure and accomplishment, tragedy and... more...
Henry Grady's New South
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 29.95The popular image of Henry W. Grady is that of a champion of the postbellum South, a region that would forgive the North for defeating it and would mobilize its own many resources for hones business and agricultural competition. Biographies and collections of Grady’s essays and speeches that appeared shortly... more...
Isham G. Harris of Tennessee
LSU Press 2010; US$ 24.95Isham Green Harris rose to prominence as leader of the southern rights wing of the Democratic Party in the 1850?s. During the secession crisis of 1861, he used his influence and constitutional power as governor to trample on the Tennessee constitution in order to align Tennessee with the Confederacy; he tirelessly supported the Confederate war effort.... more...
Skirmisher
Edinborough Press 2009; US$ 25.95Outlining the career of a politician whose two campaigns for the White House helped change the course of American politics, this in-depth study explores the religious convictions of James B. Weaver and the role they played in his political contributions. Offering a panoramic view of some of the great events of the 19th centurythe California... more...
James Z. George
University Press of Mississippi 2012; US$ 55.00When the Mississippi school boy is asked who is called the 'Great Commoner' of public life in his State, wrote Mississippi's premier historian Dunbar Rowland in 1901, "he will unhesitatingly answer James Z. George." While George's prominence, along with his white supremacist views, have decreased through the decades since... more...
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