Zeb Vance
Subtitle: North Carolina's Civil War governor and Gilded Age political leader
By: Gordon B. McKinney.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
Subjects: Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894.; United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.; Legislators -- United States -- Biography.; Governors -- North Carolina -- Biography.; North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.; North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.; North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure than has been previously recognized." "Vance campaigned to keep North Carolina in the Union during the succession crisis of 1860-61, but served as a Confederate colonel after Southern troops fired on Fort Sumter. He has been viewed as a champion of individual rights, particularly because as governor he refused to suspend the writ of habeus corpus during the war, and he opposed Confederate conscription and confiscation of private property. But McKinney demonstrates that Vance was not as progressive as earlier biographies suggest. Especially in his postwar career, Vance was a tireless advocate for white North Carolinians and the restoration of white supremacy, and he supported policies that favored the rich and powerful." "McKinney provides significant new information about Vance's third governorship, his senatorial career, and his role in the origins of the modern Democratic Party in North Carolina."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-465) and index.