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James Hamilton of South Carolina
An esteemed planter, politician, and military leader influential in the affairs of both South Carolina and Texas, James Hamilton (1786-1857) so declined in reputation during the …
The Arkansas Rockefeller
This biography by John Ward, a former member of Rockefeller's staff and director of his 1968 reelection campaign, presents the story of the first Rockefeller ever to live south of …
Lottie Moon
Legendary Southern Baptist missionary Charlotte ""Lottie"" Moon played a pivotal role in revolutionising southern civil society. Her involvement in the establishment of the Women's …
Zachary Taylor
Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor …
The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis
Regarded as one of the most vocal, well-traveled, and controversial statesmen of the nineteenth century, antebellum politician Henry Stuart Foote played a central role in a vast …
A Jackson Man
Well researched... and well written, this work gives us Kendall, warts and all. We see the avarice, the ambition, and the contradictions of his subject.... This is biography at its …
Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America
In this sweeping biography, Elaine G. Breslaw examines the life of Dr. Alexander Hamilton (1712-1756), a highly educated Scottish physician who immigrated to Maryland in 1738. From …
Isham G. Harris of Tennessee
In 1931, when the Nashville Banner conducted a survey to determine the ""Greatest Tennesseans"" to date, the state's Confederate ""War Governor,"" Isham G. Harris (1818-1897), …
William Stephens
In 1737, Englishman William Stephens (1671-1753) sailed to Georgia to serve as colonial secretary to its British Board of Trustees. His lucid reports on the condition of Georgia …
John U. Monro
In 1967, John U. Monro, dean of the college at Harvard, left his twenty-year administrative career at that prestigious university for a teaching position at Miles College - an …
A Southern Moderate in Radical Times
In A Southern Moderate in Radical Times, David I. Durham offers a comprehensive and critical appraisal of one of the South's famous dissenters. Against the backdrop of one of the …
Hoke Smith and the Politics of the New South
Cutting across the Bourbon Era, the Populist Revolt, and the Progressive Movement, Hoke Smith's career gave expression to the Southern politics of his generation. In Hoke Smith and …