Thomas Lanier Clingman
fire eater from the Carolina mountains
by Thomas E. Jeffrey
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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Biography, Legislators, Politicians, Politics and government, United States, United States. Congress. Senate, United states, congress, senate, biography, Legislators, united states, North carolina, biography, North carolina, politics and government, Southern states, historyPeople
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Thomas Lanier Clingman: fire eater from the Carolina mountains
1998, University of Georgia Press
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-432) and index.
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