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Book Review


Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader. By Gordon B. McKinney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xviii, 477 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2865-3.)
North Carolinians have long revered the memory of Zebulon B. Vance. His fame and popularity rest primarily on the record he established as the Civil War governor of North Carolina in providing assistance to white civilians and in defending their civil liberties against the centralizing measures of Jefferson Davis's Confederate government. After the war, he successfully repositioned himself at the head of the state's Democratic party, won the gubernatorial campaign of 1876 that inaugurated a century of Democratic rule of the state, and served in the U.S. Senate from 1879 to 1893 as North Carolina's most prominent national spokesman. . . .
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