Maverick Republican in the Old North State: A Political Biography of Daniel L. Russell

by Jeffrey J. Crow

Book Overview

Daniel Russell is a good example of what Carl Degler has termed "the other South." The son of an aristocratic eastern North Carolina family of staunch Whig-Unionists, he entered politics when the Republican party first appeared in the state after the Civil War. For more than forty years thereafter he fought the solid South mentality of the Bourbon Democrats, first as a Radical Republican judge, then as a Greenbacker congressman, and finally as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807125210
• ISBN13: 9780807125212
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"