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North Carolina State Prison

By: William G. Hinkle PhD,Gregory S. Taylor PhD

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North Carolina State Prison

By: William G. Hinkle PhD,Gregory S. Taylor PhD

North Carolina's State Prison was typical of American prisons in the 19th century, but with an important difference. North Carolina put most of its inmates outside prison walls to work on road camps and prison farms for the purpose of getting useful work out of them. Opened in 1870, the prison in Raleigh housed only a fraction of the prisoners. Those inmates were for the most part too old, too sick, or too feeble to handle anything other than light institutional work details. This book explores all three components of North Carolina's early prison system, including its use of prison chain gangs, and clarifies how a penitentiary differs from a reformatory, correctional institution, or community-based facility.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439655251

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9781439655252

James Larkin Pearson

A Biography of North Carolina’s Longest Serving Poet Laureate

By: Gregory S. Taylor

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James Larkin Pearson

A Biography of North Carolina’s Longest Serving Poet Laureate

By: Gregory S. Taylor

This work is the first academic biography of North Carolina poet laureate James Larkin Pearson (1879-1981). Using material from Pearson’s personal archive in Wilkes County, from the North Carolina Collection and the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and from contemporary examinations of his life and work, this study offers deeply personal insights into his life and provides extensive examinations of his hopes, joys, fears, pains, and sorrows. The work also includes lengthy studies of his poetry and his journalistic efforts and examines their place within the larger cultural milieu. In the process, the book addresses two themes that become apparent in Pearson’s life and work: his Tar Heel spirit and his individualism. He was a fighter who overcame poverty, a poor education, personal tragedies, and professional neglect to achieve great success. He also abided by his own set of religious, artistic, and political values regardless of the consequences. This work thus offers the first personal and professional examination of James Larkin Pearson, provides insights on North Carolina and its people, and examines the benefits and drawbacks of following one’s own path.

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247

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Lexington Books

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1498505201

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9781498505208

Negotiating Buck Naked

Doukhobors, Public Policy, and Conflict Resolution

By: Gregory Cran

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Negotiating Buck Naked

Doukhobors, Public Policy, and Conflict Resolution

By: Gregory Cran

Negotiating Buck Naked examines the accord closely. Why did the violence end? How was the accord reached? What factors enabled it to succeed when numerous other interventions had failed? How did it change the patterns of conflict between the factions? To answer these questions, Cran develops a theoretical framework for understanding the process of dispute resolution, emphasizing that competing discourses are juxtaposed and that it is these different but equally valid narratives that must be negotiated. Using this approach, Cran extracts from the Doukhobor conflict valuable lessons for understanding the nature of both terrorism and hegemonic practices, and traces how we view conflict and intervention from a Western perspective.

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193

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UBC Press

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0774840927

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9780774840927

The Life and Lies of Paul Crouch

Communist, Opportunist, Cold War Snitch

By: Gregory S. Taylor

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The Life and Lies of Paul Crouch

Communist, Opportunist, Cold War Snitch

By: Gregory S. Taylor

Paul Crouch (1903–1955) was the quintessential anticommunist paid government informer. A naïve, ill-educated recruit who found a family, a livelihood, and a larger romantic cause in the Communist Party, he spent more than fifteen years organizing American workers, meeting with Soviet leaders, and trying to infiltrate the U.S. military with Communist soldiers. He left the party in 1941, in part because of a growing conviction that the leadership had become dictatorial, but also in part out of vengeance for perceived wrongs. As public perceptions of Communism shifted during the Cold War, Crouch’s economic failures, desire for fame, and greed morphed him into a vehement ideologue for the anti-Communist movement. During five years of testimony, he named Robert Oppenheimer, Charlie Chaplin, and many others as Communists and claimed the civil rights movement was Communist inspired. In 1954, much of Crouch’s testimony was exposed as perjury, but he remained defiant to the end. How, and why, one southerner could become a loyal foot soldier on both sides of the Cold War ideological divide is the subject of Gregory Taylor’s incisive biography. Relying on personal papers, FBI records, and official Communist Party files, Taylor weaves through the seemingly contradictory life of the individual once known as the most dangerous man in America.

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University Press of Florida

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0813047528

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9780813047522

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North Carolina State Prison

North Carolina State Prison

James Larkin Pearson

James Larkin Pearson

Negotiating Buck Naked

Negotiating Buck Naked

The Life and Lies of Paul Crouch

The Life and Lies of Paul Crouch

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