The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics : The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina

• Autore: Christensen Rob
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : The University of North Carolina Press, 2010
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (372 p.)
• Disciplina: 975.6043
• Soggetto topico: North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950; North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1951-; Political culture -- North Carolina
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: How 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics
• ISBN: 979-88-9313-010-2; 979-88-908402-2-6; 1-4696-0628-3; 0-8078-9963-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910961718203321
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