| Murder in the Courthouse:: Reconstruction and Redemption in the North Carolina Piedmont Contributor(s): Wise, Jim (Author) |
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ISBN: 1596297557 ISBN-13: 9781596297555 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | United States - 19th Century - True Crime | Murder - General |
| Dewey: 975.604 |
| LCCN: 2009050440 |
| Series: True Crime |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 8.68" W x 6.09" (0.58 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - North Carolina - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: No suspect was ever indicted or tried for the murder of scalawag politician John W. Chicken" Stephens in a North Carolina courthouse; and the Ku Klux Klan not only rid itself of a troublesome adversary, but also set up a showdown between the state's old guard and the radical regime of Governor William Woods Holden. Follow this little-known tale from the murder, through the "Kirk-Holden War," through the courts and to the finale, when Holden became the United States' first governor impeached and removed from office. Newspaper reporter and historical columnist Jim Wise takes us beyond the final days of the Civil War in North Carolina, amidst the destruction and poverty and debt, to chronicle the men whose clashing agendas and personalities shaped a violent era and laid foundations for the Jim Crow century to come." |
Contributor Bio(s): Wise, Jim: - Born in Georgia, raised in Florida and resident of North Carolina since 1966, Jim Wise is an alumnus of Duke University (BA, English) and the University of North Carolina (MA, folklore). He has been a reporter, editor and/or columnist for newspapers in Durham, North Carolina, for more than twenty-eight years and has taught adult classes on local and Southern history for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke. His previous History Press books are On Sherman's Trail: The Civil War's North Carolina Climax and Durham Tales: The Morris Street Maple, the Plastic Cow, the Durham Day that Was and More. He and his wife, Babs, live in Durham with an aging dog and cat. |