The paradox of Tar Heel politics
Subtitle: the personalities, elections, and events that shaped modern North Carolina
By: Rob Christensen.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780807831892
Subjects: Political culture -- North Carolina; North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950; North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Description: "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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Simmons machine; title: The Shelby dynasty; title: Branchhead boys; title: The last of the conservative Democrats; title: Dixie dynamo; title: Jessecrats; title: Jim Hunt and the Democratic revival; title: Phoenix rising; title: White shirts.