"God Damn the King and the Governor Too"
Author : Peter B. Vance
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 1984
Category : United States
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Author : Peter B. Vance
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 1984
Category : United States
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Author : David Koerner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 019514600X
A wealth of new astronomical techniques and space missions may provide this evidence early in the next century."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Rhys Isaac
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0199728658
Landon Carter, a Virginia planter, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this astonishingly rich biography, Isaac mines this remarkable document--and many other sources--to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging patriarch, though a fierce supporter of American liberty, was deeply troubled by the rebellion and its threat to established order. His diary, originally a record of plantation business, began to fill with angry stories of revolt in his own little kingdom. Carter writes at white heat, his words sputtering from his pen as he documents the terrible rupture that the Revolution meant to him. Indeed, Carter felt in his heart that he was chronicling a world in decline, the passing of the order that his revered father had bequeathed to him. Not only had Landon's king betrayed his subjects, but Landon's own household betrayed him: his son showed insolent defiance, his daughter Judith eloped with a forbidden suitor, all of his slaves conspired constantly, and eight of them made an armed exodus to freedom. The seismic upheaval he helped to start had crumbled the foundations of Carter's own home. In Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom Rhys Isaac unfolds not only the life, but also the mental world of our countrymen in a long-distant time. Moreover, in this presentation of Landon Carter's passionate narratives, the diarist becomes an arresting new character in the world's literature, a figure of Shakespearean proportions, the Lear of his own tragic kingdom. This long-awaited work will be seen both as a major contribution to Revolution history and a triumph of the art of biography.
Author : Larry L. King
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780875652368
In the 1960s when the Supreme Court rules that African Americans must be admitted to the university in an unnamed Southern state, Governor Cullie Blanton is about to run for re-election. One of his opponents is "Bayonet Bill" Wooster, an ex-marine general who bases his campaign on fear of racial integration, fear of Communists, and fear of the federal government; he presents himself as the leader in a holy war against the incumbent infidel. The other candidate is Poppa Posey, a former governor who raises hound dogs, quotes Shakespeare, and hopes to use Wooster's money to split support for Blanton. Only Blanton understands that integration is inevitable and that his task must be to make the transition as painless and bloodless as possible. That he fails may be due in part to his freewheeling, power-driven personality. But Blanton is also defeated by inertia, tradition, and demagoguery. He is, as he once describes himself, someone "who just got in the way of goddamn history." Is the state Texas and the governor Lyndon B. Johnson? King denies it, arguing that there are equal parts of Huey Long, Herman Talmadge, and Alfalfa Bill Murray. But, as Erisman says in his foreword, "Blanton, in his wheeling and dealing, his crudities and profanity, his ruthlessness and his compassion, is a dead-on portrait of LBJ in full cry." The One-Eyed Man presents a hauntingly clear picture of the 1960s in the South--the national grief over the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the racial turmoil, the human dilemma faced by North and South alike. And it poses haunting questions for the reader: what separates the demagogue from the leader? What injustices are acceptable in the name of a larger justice? Who determines the greatest good for the greatest number?
Author : Joseph Kelly Turner
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Baptists
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Page : 620 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 1885
Category : History
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Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 1885
Category : New Jersey
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Author : William Adee Whitehead
Publisher :
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 1885
Category : New Jersey
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Page : 618 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
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Category : New Jersey
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Author : Murray Newton Rothbard
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 1673 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 2011
Category : United States
ISBN : 1610164865