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The paradox of Tar Heel politics : the personalities, elections, and events that shaped modern North Carolina / Rob Christensen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christensen, Rob.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--North Carolina.
- Political culture.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- North Carolina.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1951-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
- Summary:
- How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a century of political history in North Carolina, one of the most vibrant and competitive southern states, where neither conservatives nor liberals, Democrats nor Republicans, have been able to rest easy. It is this climate of competition and challenge, Christensen argues, that enabled North Carolina to rise from poverty in the nineteenth century to become a leader in research, education, and banking in the twentieth. Although party divisions a
- Contents:
- The Simmons machine
- The Shelby dynasty
- Branchhead boys
- The last of the conservative Democrats
- Dixie dynamo
- Jessecrats
- Jim Hunt and the Democratic revival
- Phoenix rising
- White shirts.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8078-8884-2
- OCLC:
- 609863431
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