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200 14$aThe Paradox of Tar Heel Politics$b[electronic resource] $eThe Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina
205   $a2nd ed.
210   $aChapel Hill $cThe University of North Carolina Press$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (372 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-8078-7151-6 
327   $aContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue; CHAPTER 1. The Simmons Machine; CHAPTER 2. The Shelby Dynasty; CHAPTER 3. Branchhead Boys; CHAPTER 4. The Last of the Conservative Democrats; CHAPTER 5. Dixie Dynamo; CHAPTER 6. Jessecrats; CHAPTER 7. Jim Hunt and the Democratic Revival; CHAPTER 8. Phoenix Rising; CHAPTER 9. A New Century; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Index
330   $aHow 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 politically 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. In this new pa
606   $aNorth Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
606   $aNorth Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1951-
606   $aPolitical culture -- North Carolina
608   $aElectronic books.
615  4$aNorth Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
615  4$aNorth Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1951-.
615  4$aPolitical culture -- North Carolina.
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