
Zeb Vance
North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader
Gordon B. McKinney(Author)
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 13. September 2004
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-8078-2865-6 (ISBN)
Description
In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure than has been previously recognized. Vance campaigned to keep North Carolina in the Union, but after Southern troops fired on Fort Sumter, he joined the army and rose to the rank of colonel. He was viewed as a champion of individual rights and enjoyed great popularity among voters. But McKinney demonstrates that Vance was not as progressive as earlier biographers suggest. Vance was a tireless advocate for white North Carolinians in the Reconstruction Period, and his policies and positions often favored the rich and powerful. McKinney provides significant new information about Vance's third governorship, his senatorial career, and his role in the origins of the modern Democratic Party in North Carolina. This biography offers the fullest, most complete understanding yet of a legendary North Carolina leader.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8078-2865-6 (9780807828656)
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Person
Gordon B. McKinney is director of the Appalachian Center and professor of history at Berea College. He is coauthor of The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War and coeditor of the microfilm edition of The Papers of Zebuion Vance.