Secessionists and other scoundrels: selections from Parson Brownlow's Book
Language: English
Published by Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, USA, 1999
Series: Book 4 of 4 - Eisenhower Center Studies on War and Peace
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Paperback.The outspoken and combative William G. "Parson" Brownlow, Southern unionist.
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- Title
- Secessionists and other scoundrels: selections from Parson Brownlow's Book
- Author
- Ash, Stephen V. Editor
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, USA
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807123544
- ISBN 13
- 9780807123546
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Series
- Book 4 of 4: Eisenhower Center Studies on War and Peace
East Tennessee newspaper editor and Methodist preacher William G. ""Parson"" Brownlow, a man of fervent principles and combative temperament, gained fame during the secession crisis as a staunch, outspoken southern unionist. Unlike most southern unionists, however, Brownlow refused to renounce his loyalty to the Union after the Civil War broke out. He continued to write editorial tirades against the Confederacy until forcibly silenced by southern authorities. Arrested, jailed, and ultimately banished to the North, Brownlow continued his war of words against the Confederacy through speaking tours and through the publication in 1862 of Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession; with a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels- a best-selling but ill-organized hodgepodge of his editorials, speeches, letters, and commentary. Secessionists and Other Scoundrels, a collection of selected excerpts from Brownlow's original, offers an accessible and powerful explication of the parson's unionism and a moving narrative of his travails under Confederate rule, without sacrificing the vitriolic prose and scathing wit for which he was celebrated- and denounced.
In these pages the inimitable parson is at his best. By turns sarcastic, angry, high-minded, informative, compassionate, and droll, he forthrightly proclaims his convictions and excoriates his foes. Every sentence exemplifies the motto that adorned the masthead of his newspaper, the Knoxville Whig: ""Cry aloud and spare not."" In an informative introduction, editor Stephen V. Ash places the excerpts in context by sketching Brownlow's career, summarizing his historical significance, and discussing the history of the book itself. Civil War scholars and enthusiasts will welcome Secessionists and Other Scoundrels as an exciting and entertaining opportunity to be reintroduced to one of the era's most colorful and controversial characters.
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