| The Clays of Alabama: A Planter-Lawyer-Politician Family Contributor(s): Nuermberger, Ruth Ketring (Author) |
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ISBN: 0817351256 ISBN-13: 9780817351250 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: "This volume gives evidence of many years of careful research and reflection. It is a sound study of the influence of the landowning southern aristocracy in state and national affairs. Members of the Clay family, like many others of the antebellum period, combined law, agriculture, and politics. They lived the 'good life' of the planter class and struggled to defend what they considered southern rights. The Clement C. Clays, father and son, both distinguished themselves in the U.S. Senate [and] the latter also served in the Confederate Senate.""--Mississippi Valley Historical Review "The history of one of Alabama's most distinguished families. . . . The author succeeds in the difficult task of making the past come alive again, and she does it by the skillful employment of a multitudinous number of sources.""--Alabama Review |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Computers | Social Aspects - Games & Activities | Video & Electronic |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005004448 |
| Series: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique |
| Physical Information: 352 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Alabama - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume gives evidence of many years of careful research and reflection. It is a sound study of the influence of the landowning southern aristocracy in state and national affairs. Members of the Clay family, like many others of the antebellum period, combined law, agriculture, and politics. They lived the 'good life' of the planter class and struggled to defend what they considered southern rights. The Clement C. Clays, father and son, both distinguished themselves in the U.S. Senate and] the latter also served in the Confederate Senate.--Mississippi Valley Historical Review The history of one of Alabama's most distinguished families. . . . The author succeeds in the difficult task of making the past come alive again, and she does it by the skillful employment of a multitudinous number of sources.--Alabama Review |