Josephus Daniels

The Small-d Democrat

Joseph L. Morrison

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9780807836286
• Print ISBN:
  9780807836279
  9780807810026

This first full-length biography documents the strong family ties and loyalties that shaped Daniels’s character and demonstrates the extent to which his religion bred not only the merry puritanism but also the moral courage that figured in his career and in his personal life. There is ample evidence to show that in spite of dire forecasts of disaster, he succeeded where his critics insisted that he must fail. His was a triumph of temperament over inexperience, of character over qualifications.

Originally published in 1966.

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Preface
• Contents
• Illustrations
• One. Washington, N.C., to Washington, D.C.
• Two. The Road to Wilson's Cabinet
• Three. Daniels and the New Freedom
• Four. The First World War
• five. False Dawn
• Six. Decade in Obscurity
• Seven. New Lease on Life
• Eight. Another “Well Done”
• Nine. Editor at Eighty
• Ten. Coda
• Notes
• Index