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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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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	E415.9.C63 J44 1998	Off-site

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xi, 450 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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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.

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98023103

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Princeton University Library