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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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Autore: McKinney Gordon B. <1943-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Zeb Vance [[electronic resource] ] : North Carolina's Civil War governor and Gilded Age political leader / / Gordon B. McKinney Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (496 p.)
Disciplina: 975.6/03
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Soggetto topico: Legislators - United States
Governors - North Carolina
Soggetto geografico: North Carolina History Civil War, 1861-1865
North Carolina Politics and government 1861-1865
North Carolina Politics and government 1865-1950
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-465) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 army and rose to the rank of colonel. He was viewed as a champion of individual rights and enjoyed great popularity among voters. But McKinney demonstrates that Vance was not as progre
Titolo autorizzato: Zeb Vance  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8078-7593-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451986603321
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