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Title

Josephus Daniels : his life and times / Lee A. Craig.

Author

Craig, Lee A. (Lee Allan), 1960-

Publication

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]

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Description

xvii, 474 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

• "As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of the navy during the First World War, he became one of the most important men in the world. Before that, Daniels revolutionized the newspaper industry in the South, forever changing the relationship between politics and the news media. Lee A. Craig, an expert on economic history, delves into Daniels's extensive archive to inform this nuanced and eminently readable biography, following Daniels's rise to power in North Carolina and chronicling his influence on twentieth-century politics. A man of great contradictions, Daniels--an ardent prohibitionist, free trader, and Free Silverite--made a fortune in private industry yet served as a persistent critic of unregulated capitalism. He championed progressive causes like the graded public school movement and antitrust laws even as he led North Carolina's white supremacy movement. Craig pulls no punches in his definitive biography of this political powerhouse"--
• "As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of the navy during the First World War, he became one of the most important men in the world. Before that, Daniels revolutionized the newspaper industry in the South, forever changing the relationship between politics and the news media. Lee A. Craig, an expert on economic history, delves into Daniels's extensive archive to inform this nuanced and eminently readable biography, following Daniels's rise to power in North Carolina and chronicling his influence on twentieth-century politics"--

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948
• United States. Department of the Navy > Biography
• 1901-1953
• HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
• Cabinet officers > United States > Biography
• Ambassadors > United States > Biography
• Press and politics > United States > History
• Publishers and publishing > North Carolina > Biography
• Newspaper publishing > North Carolina > History
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
• United States > Politics and government > 1901-1953

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-462) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The loveliest village of the plain -- A member of the fourth estate -- Center stage -- Fusion -- A nuisance and disturber -- Cup-a-Joe -- Spendid little wars -- The great war -- To the bitter end -- Mexican sunset.

ISBN

9781469606958 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012041235

OCLC

• 811591324
• SCSB-12485683

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library