Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/01/1999
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 explanation 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780820320236
- 9780820320236
- Category:
- Slavery & abolition of slavery
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 01-01-1999
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- University of Georgia Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 424
- Dimensions (mm):
- 235x155x31mm
- Weight:
- 0.33kg
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