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The Last Fire-Eater - Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity (Hardcover)
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The Last Fire-Eater - Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity (Hardcover)
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In The Last Fire-Eater, renowned historian of the American South
William A. Link examines the life of Roger A. Pryor, a Virginia
secessionist, Confederate general, and earnest proponent of postwar
sectional reconciliation whose life involved a series of remarkable
transformations. Pryor's journey, Link reveals, mirrored that of
the South. At times, both proved puzzling and contradictory. Pryor
recast himself during a crucial period in southern history between
the 1850s and the close of the nineteenth century. An archetypical
southern-rights advocate, Pryor became a skilled practitioner in
the politics of honor. As a politician and newspaper editor, he
engaged in duels and viewed the world through the cultural prism of
southern honor, assuming a more militant and aggressive stance on
slavery than most of his regional peers. Later, he served in the
Confederate army during the Civil War, rising to the rank of
brigadier general and seeing action across the Eastern Theater.
Captured late in the conflict, Pryor soon after abandoned his fiery
persona and renounced extremism. He then moved to New York City,
where he emerged as a prominent lawyer and supporter of the sort of
intersectional detente that stood as a central facet of what
southern boosters labeled the "New South." Dramatic change
characterized Pryor's long life. Born in 1828, he died four months
after the end of World War I. He witnessed fundamental shifts in
the South that included the destruction of slavery, the defeat of
the Confederacy, and the redefinition of manhood and honor among
elite white men who relied less on violence to resolve personal
grievances. With Pryor's lifetime of remakings as its focus, The
Last Fire-Eater serves as a masterful history of transformation in
the South.
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