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A consequential life : David Lowry Swain, nineteenth-century North Carolina, and their university / Willis P. Whichard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whichard, Willis P., author.
- Series:
- Coates university leadership series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868.
- Swain, David L.
- University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History--19th century.
- University of North Carolina (1793-1962).
- Governors--North Carolina--Biography.
- Governors.
- College presidents--North Carolina--Biography.
- College presidents.
- North Carolina.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 729 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University Library, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Over half a century ago historian Hugh T. Lefler viewed Swain as a North Carolina leader who perhaps merited full-length biographical treatment. A Consequential Life fills this perceived gap in the state's biographical literature. It not only details the life and work of the man who was arguably the state's most significant nineteenth-century leader; in the process it also recounts the history of the state's university in the three-plus decades when he was the focal point of its life"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Harry L. Watson
- Beginnings
- Governor
- Academic leader
- Historian
- Personal life
- Civil War, Reconstruction
- Endings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469666181
- 1469666189
- OCLC:
- 1287751913
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