Paperback / softback. New. Parson Brownlow was a circuit-riding Methodist minister, upstart journalist, and political activist who wielded a vitriolic tongue and pen in defense of both slavery and the Union. This 1937 biography traces his religious, journalistic, and political career. Although his interpretations were biased by racism, Brownlow's vision of the American South included Appalachians and African Americans at a time when his contemporaries ignored these groups. Coulter taught history at the University of Georgia. ISBN 1572330503 9781572330504 [GB]

ISBN10: 1572330503, ISBN13: 9781572330504, [publisher: The University of Tennessee Press] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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University of Tennessee Press, Date: 1999. Paperback. New. 432 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. 1999. University of Tennessee Press ISBN 1572330503 9781572330504 [GB]

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Univ Tennessee Press, Date: 1999-08-12. Paperback. Good. 1999. Univ Tennessee Press ISBN 1572330503 9781572330504 [US]

ISBN10: 1572330503, ISBN13: 9781572330504, [publisher: Univ Tennessee Press] Softcover
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ISBN10: 1572330503, ISBN13: 9781572330504, [publisher: University of Tennessee Press] Softcover 432 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.
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ISBN10: 1572330503, ISBN13: 9781572330504, [publisher: University of Tennessee Press, Chicago] Softcover Paperback. "The 'Fighting Parson' has endured the passage of time and changing interpretation and remains an enduring and scholarly work." Tennessee Historical Quarterly"We should know Parson Brownlow. The successes and failures of his radicalism can instruct us in more constructive ways for our own time." Knoxville News-SentinelTennessee has had its share of outrageous characters over the years but none more outrageous than William G. Brownlow. A legend in his own time and a myth in times after, Parson Brownlow was a circuit-riding Methodist minister, upstart journalist, and political activist who wielded a vitriolic tongue and pen in defense of both slavery and the Union.E. Merton Coulter's 1937 biography of Brownlow remains the standard account of the Parson and his times. It traces his religious, journalistic, and political career and shows that wherever he went, Brownlow created a storm, becoming a hero to his admirers and the devil incarnate to his enemies. "If I have any talent in the world," he once wrote, "it is that talent which consists in piling up one epithet upon another."Coulter drew on a wide range of sources and his own knowledge of Southern history to bring Parson Brownlow to life, and his lively prose captures the exaggerated rhetoric with which Brownlow assaulted all enemiesdemocrats, ...