Terry Sanford
Subtitle: politics, progress, and outrageous ambitions
By: Howard E. Covington, Jr. and Marion A. Ellis.
Contributors: Ellis, Marion A.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 559
Subjects: Sanford, Terry, 1917-; Duke University -- Biography.; United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.; Governors -- North Carolina -- Biography.; College presidents -- North Carolina -- Biography.; Legislators -- United States -- Biography.; North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Terry Sanford (1917-1998) was one of the most important public figures of the postwar South. First as North Carolina's governor and later as president of Duke University, he demonstrated a dynamic style of progressive leadership marked by compassion and creativity. Terry Sanford tells the story of Sanford's beginnings, his political aspirations, his experiences in office, and, of course, his numerous accomplishments in the context of a period of revolutionary change in the South."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-543) and index.