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A Good Southerner

The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia

Craig M. Simpson

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/2014
Pages: 468
Subject: Biography and Autobiography, History | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469616476

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Wise (1806-76) was extremely active on the Virginia and national political scene from the early 1830s to the mid-1860s, drawing popular support because of his projection of hopefulness and energy. Regarded as eccentric, Wise is given, in this study, an interpretation that finds consistency in his life-long controversial and impulsive behavior. Simpson stresses Wise's ambivalent attitude toward slaves and slave-holding, authority and authority figures, and Virginia and the United States.

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