Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South / / Steven P. Miller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452428803321
• Autore: Miller Steven P.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2009
• ISBN: 1-283-89645-1; 0-8122-0614-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Collana: Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Disciplina: 269/.2092 B
• Soggetti: Civil rights - Southern States - History - 20th century; Electronic books.; Southern States Race relations History 20th century; Southern States Social conditions 20th century; Southern States Religious life and customs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-293) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Billy Graham's New South -- Chapter one. ''No Segregation at the Altar'' -- Chapter two. Evangelical Universalism in the Post-Brown South -- Chapter three. The Politics of Decency -- Chapter four. ''Another Kind of March'' -- Chapter five. Billy Graham's Southern Strategy -- Chapter six. Crusading for the Sunbelt South -- Chapter seven. ''Before the Water Gate'' -- Epilogue. Billy Graham and American Conservatism -- Notes -- Archival and manuscript sources -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: While spreading the gospel around the world through his signature crusades, internationally renowned evangelist Billy Graham maintained a visible and controversial presence in his native South, a region that underwent substantial political and economic change in the latter half of the twentieth century. In this period Graham was alternately a desegregating crusader in Alabama, Sunbelt booster in Atlanta, regional apologist in the national press, and southern strategist in the Nixon administration.Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South considers the critical but underappreciated role of the noted evangelist in the creation of the modern American South. The region experienced ; two significant related shifts away from its status as what observers and critics called the "Solid South": the end of legalized Jim Crow and the end of Democratic Party dominance. Author Steven P. Miller treats Graham as a serious actor and a powerful symbol in this transition-an evangelist first and foremost, but also a profoundly political figure. In his roles as the nation's most visible evangelist, adviser to political leaders, and a regional spokesperson, Graham influenced many of the developments that drove celebrants and detractors alike to place the South at the vanguard of political, religious, and cultural trends. He forged a path on which white southern moderates could retreat from Jim Crow, while his evangelical critique of white supremacy portended the emergence of "color blind" rhetoric within mainstream conservatism. Through his involvement in the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations, as well as his deep social ties in the South, the evangelist influenced the decades-long process of political realignment.Graham's public life sheds new light on recent southern history in all of its ambiguities, and his social and political ethics complicate conventional understandings of evangelical Christianity in postwar America. Miller's book seeks to reintroduce a familiar figure to the narrative of southern history and, in the process, examine the political and social transitions constitutive of the modern South.

I Have Struck Mrs. Cochran with a Stake : Sleepwalking, Insanity, and the Trial of Abraham Prescott

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910794217903321
• Autore: Rounds Leslie L
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ashland : , : The Kent State University Press, , 2020; ©2020
• ISBN: 1-63101-430-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 pages)
• Collana: True Crime History
• Disciplina: 345.742/02523
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Murder -- 1. The Killing -- 2. The Cochran Family -- 3. Sally and Chauncey Cochran -- 4. Nighttime Attack -- 5. The Prescott Family -- 6. Indictment and Incarceration -- Part II: Abraham Prescott's Trials -- 7. The Prosecution Presents Its Case -- 8. The Defense's Opening Argument -- 9. The Defense Discusses Sleepwalking -- 10. The Avery Connection -- 11. Mental Illness in the Prescott Family -- 12. The Physicians Begin Their Testimony -- 13. More Physicians for the Defense -- 14. The Prosecution Rebuts -- 15. The Defense Begins Its Closing Argument -- 16. Closing Arguments Conclude -- 17. Verdict and Retrial -- 18. Reprieve, Riots, and Execution -- Part III: Somnambulism, Insanity, and Prescott's Legacy -- 19. New Hampshire's Need for an Asylum -- 20. The Sleepwalking Defense Evolves -- 21. The Insanity Plea -- 22. The Question of Responsibility -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: How the forgotten case of murder while sleepwalking changed history After creeping out of bed on a frigid January night in 1832, teenage farmhand Abraham Prescott took up an ax and thrashed his sleeping employers to the brink of death. He later explained that he'd attacked Sally and Chauncey Cochran in his sleep. The Cochrans eventually recovered but--to the astonishment of their neighbors--kept Prescott on, somehow accepting his strange story.This decision would come back to haunt them. While picking strawberries with Sally in an isolated ; field the following summer, Prescott used a fence post to violently kill the young mother. His explanation was again the same; he told Chauncey he'd fallen asleep and the next thing he knew, Sally was dead. Prescott's attorneys would use both a sleepwalking claim and an insanity plea in his defense, despite the historically dismal success rates of these arguments. In the two murder trials that followed, Prescott was convicted and sentenced to death both times.Prescott's crime has landmark significance, however, notably because many believed the boy was mentally ill and should never have been executed. The case also highlights the discriminatory role class plays in the American justice system.Using contemporaneous accounts as well as information from other insanity and sleepwalking defenses, author Leslie Lambert Rounds reconstructs the crime and raises important questions about privilege, societal discrimination against the mentally ill and the disadvantaged, and the unfortunate secondary role of women in history.