The Day of the Carpetbagger
Author | : William Charles Harris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Mississippi |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Charles Harris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Mississippi |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harold Robbins |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 2007-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0765351463 |
This legendary masterpiece--the most successful of Robbins's many books--tells a story of money and power, sex and death, and is available once again in an exciting new package. Reissue.
Author | : Richard Nelson Current |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Set within the larger context of Congressional politics and the history of individual Southern states, Current's narrative reveals a group of men who were often highly educated, almost all of whom had served with distinction in the Union Army (three were generals), and several of whom brought their own money down South to help rebuild a war-torn land. Daniel H. Chamberlain, for instance, was educated at Yale and Harvard Law School--he was described by the President of Yale as "a born leader of men"--Was governor of South Carolina, and later made a fortune as a Wall Street lawyer. Adelbert Ames, far from exploiting the black, was a leading exponent of black rights, the author of the main brief of the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, a major court battle against segregation. And Albion W. Tourgee, author of the best-selling A Fool's Errand, was praised after his death by W.E.B. du Bois for his efforts on behalf of the freed slaves.
Author | : Jennifer L. Fluri |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2017-01-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0820350338 |
The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by United States and coalition forces was followed by a flood of aid and development dollars and “experts” representing well over two thousand organizations—each with separate policy initiatives, geopolitical agendas, and socioeconomic interests. This book examines the everyday actions of people associated with this international effort, with a special emphasis on small players: individuals and groups who charted alternative paths outside the existing networks of aid and development. This focus highlights the complexities, complications, and contradictions at the intersection of the everyday and the geopolitical, showing how dominant geopolitical narratives influence daily life in places like Afghanistan—and what happens when the goals of aid workersor the needs of aid recipients do not fit the narrative. Specifically, this book examines the use of gender, “need,” and grief as drivers for both common and exceptional responses to geopolitical interventions.Throughout this work, Jennifer L. Fluri and Rachel Lehr describe intimate encounters at a microscale to complicate and dispute the ways in which Afghans and their country have been imagined, described, fetishized, politicized, vilified, and rescued. The authors identify the ways in which Afghan men and women have been narrowly categorized as perpetrators and victims, respectively. They discuss several projects to show how gender and grief became forms of currency that were exchanged for different social, economic, and political opportunities. Such entanglements suggest the power and influence of the United States while illustrating the ways in which individuals and groups have attempted to chart alternative avenues of interaction, intervention, and interpretation.
Author | : Otto H. Olsen |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421430959 |
Originally published in 1965. The Supreme Court's momentous school desegregation decision of 1954 was a postmortem victory for Albion Tourgée. Just fifty-eight years earlier this once-famous carpetbagger's attack on segregation was crushed in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. His legal defeat in 1896 typified his frustrated but prophetic career. Tourgée was an idealistic Union veteran who ventured south in 1865. As an advocate of civil rights, political equality, free schools, and penal reform, he was elected to North Carolina's Constitutional Convention of 1868. Olsen records both the fierce struggles and the impressive accomplishments that filled Tourgée's fourteen years in the South. With the collapse of the Southern experiment, Tourgée was inspired to turn to fiction to express his convictions. A Fool's Errand by One of the Fools and Bricks without Straw were classics of their day, providing absorbing accounts and defenses of radical Reconstruction. In 1879 Tourgée went north, where he renewed and extended his crusade for Negro equality by writing, lecturing, and lobbying. For many years he was the most militant and persistent advocate of racial equality in the nation. He was also a vigorous critic of the industrial age, demanding the utilization of federal power in behalf of equality, democracy, and economic justice.
Author | : James Michael Martinez |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780742550780 |
In some places during Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a social fraternity whose members enjoyed sophomoric high jinks and homemade liquor. In other areas, the KKK was a paramilitary group intent on keeping former slaves away from white women and Republicans away from ballot boxes. South Carolina saw the worst Klan violence and, in 1871, President Grant sent federal troops under the command of Major Lewis Merrill to restore law and order. Merrill did not eradicate the Klan, but he arguably did more than any other person or entity to expose the identity of the Invisible Empire as a group of hooded, brutish, homegrown terrorists. In compiling evidence to prosecute the leading Klansmen and restoring at least a semblance of order to South Carolina, Merrill and his men demonstrated that the portrayal of the KKK as a chivalric organization was at best a myth and at worst a lie. Book jacket.
Author | : Grace Robbins |
Publisher | : Burres Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Authors' spouses |
ISBN | : 9780988284821 |
The 60s and '70s were decades like no others--radical, experimental, libertine. Globetrotting Grace Robbins chronicles the rollicking good times with the jetting set from megamansions in Beverly Hills to yachts on the French Riviera--and the secrets they kept.
Author | : Richard Bailey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Recounts the rise & fall of African Americans in Alabama politics. Delves into the efforts to establish banks, labor unions, newspapers, churches, schools, & the Republican party. Also distills the role of the Freedmen's Bureau, Union League, & American Missionary Association in their rise to political power. Outlined are their prewar activities, especially their occupations, manumissions, quest for an education, & service to the Union or the Confederacy. Shows that blacks were loyal members of the party & were especially crippled when intraparty factionism & Federal programs failed to move them beyond emancipation. Emphasized are the reasons for the decline of black officeholding. Includes two maps, eight tables, & 57 photographs, many of them rare. Among the 14 appendices are some correspondence of these lawmakers, data on Alabama's black schools, names & hometowns of AMA teachers, a list of black property owners, identification of black major & minor officeholders, & a recapitulation of the number of slaves & slaveholders in 1850. Six plus, 20% discount. Call 1-800-484-8620, Ext. 5198 (orders only), 205-284-5138 (inquiries only), or 205-281-4904 (FAX). Richard Bailey Publishers, P.O. Box 1264, Montgomery, AL 36102-1264.
Author | : G. Ward Hubbs |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817318607 |
Examines the life stories and perspectives about freedom in relation to the figures depicted in an infamous Reconstruction-era political cartoon
Author | : Rachael Anne Long |
Publisher | : Rachael Anne Long |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2024-07-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1447840364 |
London, 1882 - A wet, drizzle-bedevilled summer. The sort of weather that turned beer flat, made bread go mouldy and flooded pavements with puddles. In this setting a former fist-fighter and his associate are making a living mugging well-to-do types who visit the East End seeking pleasure. But this once profitable partnership develops a problem… The story that unfolds is narrated first-person with cheek and humour; fuelled on a mix of street-stall pies, print-shop tea and the hope that luck will always prevail. Not everything is as it seems though - there are secrets and this lifestyle, funded by petty crime, soon leads to a deadly plot involving a crooked pawnshop owner, an Afrikaner and the head of the British Empire…