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Thomas Lanier Clingman
Thomas E. Jeffrey
其他書名
Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains
出版University of Georgia Press, 1998
主題Political Science / American Government / Legislative BranchBiography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / PoliticalHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralPolitical Science / American Government / State
ISBN08203202349780820320236
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=C0Acnj3ga88C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.