Title: Thomas Lanier Clingman
First published: 1998
Description: 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 analysis 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.
Subjects: Biography, Legislators, Politicians, Politics and government, United States, United States. Congress. Senate, United states, congress, senate, biography, Legislators, united states, North carolina, biography, North carolina, politics and government, Southern states, history
Places: North Carolina, United States
People: T. L. Clingman (1812-1897)
Time periods: 1865-1950
LC classification: E415.9.C63 J44 1998