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McKinney Gordon B. <1943-> |
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Zeb Vance [[electronic resource] ] : North Carolina's Civil War governor and Gilded Age political leader / / Gordon B. McKinney |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (496 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Legislators - United States |
Governors - North Carolina |
Electronic books. |
North Carolina History Civil War, 1861-1865 |
North Carolina Politics and government 1861-1865 |
North Carolina Politics and government 1865-1950 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-465) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 What Manner of Man?; 2 A Mountain Boyhood; 3 Scholar and Suitor; 4 Lawyer and Apprentice Politician; 5 Congressman; 6 Secession Crisis; 7 Colonel of the Twenty-sixth Regiment; 8 Campaign for Governor; 9 Building a Strong North Carolina; 10 Relations with the Confederate Government; 11 Growing Challenges; 12 Protest; 13 Challenges to the Compromise; 14 Campaign for Reelection; 15 Returned to Office; 16 Defeat with Honor; 17 Prisoner; 18 The Politics of Reconstruction; 19 Frustrated Politician; 20 The Battle of Giants; 21 Governor Again |
22 United States Senator23 Party Leader; 24 Farmers' Alliance and Reelection; 25 Decline; 26 Monuments and the Man; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In 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 after Southern troops fired on Fort Sumter, he joined the |
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