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020 _a9781469608105
020 _a1469608103
020 _z9781469606958 (alk. paper)
020 _z146960695X
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aE748.D19
_bC73 2013
082 0 0 _a973.9092
_aB
_223
100 1 _aCraig, Lee A.
_q(Lee Allan),
_d1960-
245 1 0 _aJosephus Daniels
_h[electronic resource] :
_bhis life & times /
_cLee A. Craig.
260 _aChapel Hill :
_bThe University of North Carolina Press,
_c[2013]
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (xvii, 474 pages :)
_billustrations ;
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 453-462) and index.
520 _a"As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of the navy during the First World War, he became one of the most important men in the world. Before that, Daniels revolutionized the newspaper industry in the South, forever changing the relationship between politics and the news media. Lee A. Craig, an expert on economic history, delves into Daniels's extensive archive to inform this nuanced and eminently readable biography, following Daniels's rise to power in North Carolina and chronicling his influence on twentieth-century politics"--
_cProvided by publisher.
520 _a"As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of the navy during the First World War, he became one of the most important men in the world. Before that, Daniels revolutionized the newspaper industry in the South, forever changing the relationship between politics and the news media. Lee A. Craig, an expert on economic history, delves into Daniels's extensive archive to inform this nuanced and eminently readable biography, following Daniels's rise to power in North Carolina and chronicling his influence on twentieth-century politics. A man of great contradictions, Daniels--an ardent prohibitionist, free trader, and Free Silverite--made a fortune in private industry yet served as a persistent critic of unregulated capitalism. He championed progressive causes like the graded public school movement and antitrust laws even as he led North Carolina's white supremacy movement. Craig pulls no punches in his definitive biography of this political powerhouse"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
600 1 0 _aDaniels, Josephus,
_d1862-1948.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV).
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
_2bisacsh
650 0 _aNewspaper publishing
_zNorth Carolina
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPublishers and publishing
_zNorth Carolina
_vBiography.
650 0 _aPress and politics
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAmbassadors
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aCabinet officers
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bDepartment of the Navy
_vBiography.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1901-1953.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781469608105/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c32729
_d32729