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Thomas Lanier Clingman : fire eater from the Carolina mountains / Thomas E. Jeffrey.
Van Pelt Library E415.9.C63 J44 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jeffrey, Thomas E., 1911-1989.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clingman, T. L. (Thomas Lanier), 1812-1897.
- Clingman, T. L.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- United States.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
- United States. Congress. Senate.
- Politicians--North Carolina--Biography.
- Politicians.
- North Carolina.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 450 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- Thomas Lanier Clingman: "Fire Eater" from the Carolina Mountains is the first book-length biography of one of the most important, colorful, and controversial figures in nineteenth-century American life. A man of enormous intellect and intense ambition whose ultimate goal was nothing less than the presidency, Clingman was a lawyer, entrepreneur, Civil War general, inventor, amateur scientist, explorer, and, as a U.S. congressman and senator, one of the foremost champions of southern rights. Thomas E. Jeffrey's explanation of how a leading advocate of this cause could thrive in an environment where slavery was only a marginal institution provides fresh insights into the political culture of southern Appalachia, the character of the southern rights movement, and the coming of the Civil War.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [417]-432) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820320234
- OCLC:
- 39069468
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