Umfang:
Online-Ressource (351 p)
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ill
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25 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0807831891
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9780807831892
Inhalt:
How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a century of political history in North Carolina, one of the most vibrant and competitive southern states, where neither conservatives nor liberals, Democrats nor Republicans, have been able to rest easy. It is this climate of competition and challenge, Christensen argues, that enabled North Carolina to rise from poverty in the nineteenth century to become a leader in research, education, and banking in the twentieth.Although party divisions and the is
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue; CHAPTER 1. The Simmons Machine; CHAPTER 2. The Shelby Dynasty; CHAPTER 3. Branchhead Boys; CHAPTER 4. The Last of the Conservative Democrats; CHAPTER 5. Dixie Dynamo; CHAPTER 6. Jessecrats; CHAPTER 7. Jim Hunt and the Democratic Revival; CHAPTER 8. Phoenix Rising; CHAPTER 9. White Shirts; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780807831892
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Paradox of Tar Heel Politics : The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina
Sprache:
Englisch
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