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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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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.
Subject
  • Clingman, T. L. 1812-1897
  • Clingman, T. L. 1812-1897
  • Clingman, Thomas L
  • United States. Congress. Senate > Biography
  • United States. Congress. Senate
  • 1865-1950
  • Legislators > United States > Biography
  • Politicians > North Carolina > Biography
  • Legislators
  • Politics and government
  • Politicians
  • Biografie
  • Politieke activiteit
  • North Carolina > Politics and government > 1865-1950
  • North Carolina
  • United States
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