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Frank Porter Graham - Southern Liberal, Citizen of the World (Hardcover)
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Frank Porter Graham - Southern Liberal, Citizen of the World (Hardcover)
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Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) was one of the most consequential
white southerners of the twentieth century. Born in Fayetteville
and raised in Charlotte, Graham became an active and popular
student leader at the University of North Carolina. After earning a
graduate degree from Columbia University and serving as a marine
during World War I, he taught history at UNC, and in 1930, he
became the university's fifteenth president. Affectionately known
as "Dr. Frank," Graham spent two decades overseeing UNC's
development into a world-class public institution. But he regularly
faced controversy, especially as he was increasingly drawn into
national leadership on matters such as intellectual freedom and the
rights of workers. As a southern liberal, Graham became a prominent
New Dealer, negotiator, and briefly a U.S. senator. Graham's
reputation for problem solving through compromise led him into
service under several presidents as a United Nations mediator, and
he was outspoken as a white southerner regarding civil rights.
Brimming with fresh insights, this definitive biography reveals how
a personally modest public servant took his place on the national
and world stage and, along the way, helped transform North
Carolina.
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