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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807763903321

Autore

Walther Eric H. <1960->

Titolo

William Lowndes Yancey and the coming of the Civil War / / Eric H. Walther

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006

ISBN

979-88-908797-7-6

0-8078-7734-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (492 p.)

Collana

Civil War America

Disciplina

973.7/13092

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Soggetti

Legislators - Alabama

Secession - Alabama

Statesmen - Confederate States of America

Legislators - United States

Alabama Politics and government To 1865

Confederate States of America Politics and government

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-459) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Jordan's stormy banks -- Rebellion and Union -- Flush times and bad times in Alabama and South Carolina -- Politician -- Party and honor -- The Alabama platform -- Secessionist -- Creating the "leaven of disunion" -- Public man, private life -- Yancey and the house divided -- Walker and Walker, the league and the letter -- The conventions of 1860 -- The voice of the South -- The men and the hours -- In King Arthur's court -- Journeys home -- The main pillar of the Confederacy.

Sommario/riassunto

IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814-63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater.Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather and an emotionally unstable mother, Yancey grew up believing that abolitionists were cruel, meddling, and



hypocritical. His personal journey led him through a series of mentors who transformed his political views, and upon moving to frontier Alabama in his twenties, Yancey's penchant for rhet