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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Author: Timothy B. Smith
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617032328
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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“When the Mississippi school boy is asked who is called the ‘Great Commoner’ of public life in his state," wrote Mississippi’s premier historian Dunbar Rowland in 1901, “he will unhesitatingly answer James Z. George.” While George’s prominence, along with his white supremacist views, have decreased through the decades since then, many modern historians still view him as a supremely important Mississippian, with one writing that George (1826–1897) was “Mississippi's most important Democratic leader in the late nineteenth century.” Certainly, the Mexican War veteran, prominent lawyer and planter, Civil War officer, Reconstruction leader, state Supreme Court chief justice, and Mississippi’s longest-serving United States senator to that time deserves a full biography. And George’s importance was greater than just on the state level as other southerners copied his tactics to secure white supremacy in their own states. That James Z. George has never had a full, academic biography is inexplicable. James Z. George: Mississippi’s Great Commoner seeks to rectify the lack of attention to George’s life. In doing so, this volume utilizes numerous sources, never or only slightly used, primarily a large collection of George’s letters held by his descendants and never used by historians. Such wonderful sources allow a glimpse not only into the life and times of James Z. George, but perhaps more importantly an exploration of the man himself, his traits, personality, and ideas. The result is a picture of an extremely commonplace individual on the surface, but an exceptionally complicated man underneath. James Z. George: Mississippi’s Great Commoner will bring this important Mississippi leader of the nineteenth century back into the minds of twenty-first-century Mississippians.
Author: Karl Jacoby
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393253864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
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Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award "An American 'Odyssey,' the larger-than-life story of a man who travels far in the wake of war and gets by on his adaptability and gift for gab." —Wall Street Journal A black child born on the US-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery, William Ellis inhabited a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the name Guillermo Eliseo, he passed as Mexican, transcending racial lines to become fabulously wealthy as a Wall Street banker, diplomat, and owner of scores of mines and haciendas south of the border. In The Strange Career of William Ellis, prize-winning historian Karl Jacoby weaves an astonishing tale of cunning and scandal, offering fresh insights on the history of the Reconstruction era, the US-Mexico border, and the abiding riddle of race in America.
Author: Merrill Edwards Gates
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Author: Laureen Baillie
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Author: William J. Northen
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Author: Laureen Baillie
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ISBN: 9783598335488
Category : American biographical archive
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Author: Norris Galpin Osborn
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Author: Alfred Nevin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385489040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
