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Thomas Lanier Clingman : fire eater from the Carolina mountains
- Title
- Thomas Lanier Clingman : fire eater from the Carolina mountains / Thomas E. Jeffrey.
- Author
- Jeffrey, Thomas Edward.
- Publication
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | E415.9.C63 J44 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 450 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains is the first book-length biography of one of the most important, colorful, and controversial figures in nineteenth-century American life. A man of enormous intellect and intense ambition whose ultimate goal was nothing less than the presidency, Clingman was a lawyer, entrepreneur, Civil War general, inventor, amateur scientist, explorer, and, as a U.S. congressman and senator, one of the foremost champions of southern rights. Thomas E.
- Jeffrey's analysis of how a leading advocate of this cause could thrive within an environment where slavery was only a marginal institution provides fresh insights into the political culture of southern Appalachia, the character of the southern rights movement, and the coming of the Civil War.
- Subjects
- United States
- Politicians
- Legislators
- North Carolina
- 1865-1950
- Clingman, Thomas L
- Clingman, T. L (Thomas Lanier), 1812-1897
- Biographies
- Biography
- United States > Congress > Senate > Biography
- Politieke activiteit
- Biografie
- Politics and government
- Politicians > North Carolina > Biography
- Legislators > United States > Biography
- North Carolina > Politics and government > 1865-1950
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-432) and index.
- ISBN
- 0820320234
- 9780820320236
- LCCN
- 98023103
- OCLC
- ocm39069468
- 39069468
- SCSB-539342
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library