In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading

"McKinney provides significant new information about Vance's third governorship, his senatorial career, and his role in the origins of the modern Democratic Par

A biography of the North Carolina governor, emphasizing his skill as a politician and leader, and his influence in his state during the Civil War and the decade

"Rugged, dynamic, controversial -- Zebulon Baird Vance was one of the dominant personalities of the South for nearly half a century. Here is the first full-scal

Although North Carolina was a "home front" state rather than a battlefield state for most of the Civil War, it was heavily involved in the Confederate war effor