The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys

North Carolina's Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics

Rob Christensen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2019
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-5104-0 (ISBN)

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Louisiana had the Longs, Virginia had the Byrds, Georgia had the Talmadges, and North Carolina had the Scotts. In this history of North Carolina's most influential political family, Rob Christensen tells the story of the Scotts and when they dominated Tar Heel politics. Three generations of Scotts—W. Kerr Scott, Robert Scott, and Meg Scott Phipps—held statewide office. Despite stereotypes about rural white southerners, the Scotts led a populist and progressive movement strongly supported by rural North Carolinians—the so-called Branchhead Boys, the rural grassroots voters who lived at the heads of tributaries throughout the heart of North Carolina. Though the Scotts held power in various government positions in North Carolina for generations, they were instrumental in their own downfall. From Kerr Scott's regression into reactionary race politics to Meg Scott Phipps's corruption trial and subsequent prison sentence, the Scott family lost favor in their home state, their influence dimming and their legacy in question.

Weaving together interviews from dozens of political luminaries and deep archival research, Christensen offers an engaging and definitive historical account of not only the Scott family's legacy but also how race and populism informed North Carolina politics during the twentieth century.

Rob Christensen is political columnist for the News and Observer in Raleigh.

Erscheinungsdatum	25.04.2019
Zusatzinfo	15 halftones
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	218 x 248 mm
Gewicht	642 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4696-5104-1 / 1469651041
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-5104-0 / 9781469651040
Zustand	Neuware