Who's who
Who's who

Author: Henry Robert Addison

Publisher:

Published: 1905

Total Pages: 1898

ISBN-13:

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An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."

Democratic Repairman
Democratic Repairman

Author: Debra A. Mulligan

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-05-17

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1476634084

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As governor of Rhode Island, J. Howard McGrath oversaw the passage of social legislation aimed at improving the lives of his constituents during the dark days of World War II. As a Rhode Island senator he served as the Democratic National Committee Chairman during the contentious 1948 presidential election, when few believed Harry Truman could defeat New York governor Thomas R. Dewey. Following Truman's victory, McGrath could easily have written his own ticket to further political success--but his career was cut short in 1952 when he was forced to resign as Attorney General amid a cloud of scandal. This biography traces the rise and fall of a politician who achieved notable success yet ultimately fell victim to his appetite for power, fame and fortune.

North by South
North by South

Author: Charles Hoffmann

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 082033443X

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In 1823, Richard James Arnold, descendant of a Quaker family involved in the movement to abolish slavery in Rhode Island, married Louisa Gindrat of Bryan County, Georgia, and acquired a plantation called White Hall--thirteen hundred acres of rice and cotton land and sixty-eight slaves. Over the next fifty years, Arnold led two distinct, if never entirely separate lives, building through successive Georgia winters a profitable southern "paradise" rooted in human bondage, then returning each spring to his business interests and extended family in Rhode Island. Organized around a surviving plantation journal kept during two winters and one spring, North by South encompasses Arnold's career as a rice and cotton planter as it uncovers the increasingly difficult social and moral disguises that enabled him to move freely through two worlds.