Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains

By Thomas E. Jeffrey

Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains is the first book-length biography of one of the most important, colorful, and controversial figures in nineteenth-century American life. A man of enormous intellect and intense ambition whose ultimate goal was nothing less than the presidency, Clingman was a lawyer, entrepreneur, Civil War general, inventor, amateur scientist, explorer, and, as a U.S. congressman and senator, one of the foremost champions of southern rights. Thomas E. Jeffrey's explanation of how a leading advocate of this cause could thrive within an environment where slavery was only a marginal institution provides fresh insights into the political culture of southern Appalachia, the character of the southern rights movement, and the coming of the Civil War.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820320234
• ISBN13: 9780820320236
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"