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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 2579 John Tyler Morgan and the Search for Southern Autonomy, by Joseph A. Fry (read 12 Feb 1994) Morgan was an Alabama Senator from March 4, 1877 till he died June 11, 1907. While this book is uninspired in its compilation and not designed to be read by non-scholars I liked it very much. Especially interesting was the chapter called "Dinging on the Nicaragua Canal, 1898-1904." Morgan was a hard-working man intent on a canal, which he insisted had to be in Nicaragua. The fascinating story told so well by David McCullough in The Path Between the Seas is touched on in this book, and was just as interesting as McCullough told it. Morgan was in the vanguard of southern politics for over 50 years. ( ) no reviews | add a review
John Tyler Morgan (1824-1907) was a major figure in regional and national politics during a crucial era in southern history. A leader in Alabama politics for almost fifty years, Morgan was first and foremost a southern nationalist who labored tirelessly to liberate the South from outside domination. In tracing Morgan's career, this book, his first comprehensive biography, also illuminates the processes by which Alabama and other southern states decided for secession and later opposed Reconstruction. Morgan's fear of northern and Republican threats to southern liberties, honor, and racial codes led first to his emergence as William L. Yancey's chief secessionist lieutenant and then to service in the Confederate cavalry. Similar motives prompted his active campaign against Reconstruction. As Alabama's U.S. senator from 1877 until his death, Morgan was one of the "Redeemers" who controlled the post-Reconstruction South. The senator's responses to Gilded Age domestic issues aggressively promoted sectionalism, agriculture, white supremacy, and black disfranchisement. In foreign policy, too, Alabama's colorful "ambassador" sought to benefit his "country," the South. Urging expanded exports of southern raw materials and the addition of southern senators and congressmen from new states to be carved out of the nation's island empire, Morgan became the south's foremost territorial and economic imperialist and the principal proponent of a Nicaragua canal. No library descriptions found. |
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