He was instrumental in organizing African-American dockworkers into the Labor Union of Colored Men, to gain them jobs at the docks after 1870. The Carpetbaggers is a 1961 bestselling novel by Harold Robbins, which was adapted into a 1964 film of the same title.The prequel Nevada Smith was also based on a character in the novel. After the war, thousands of Northern white women moved South many to teach newly freed African-American children.Д«ut far too much was wrongly or unwisely spent' to aid the Republican Party leadership. He was interred at the Marion National Cemetery. After the war, Furbush migrated to Liberia through the American Colonization Society, where he continued to work as a photographer. His 1872 reelection campaign in Alabama opened him to allegations of 'political betrayal of colleagues manipulation of Federal patronage embezzlement of public funds purchase of votes and intimidation of voters by the presence of Federal troops.'

Harold Robbins, The Carpetbaggers (12) Historical References. Insurance investigators are bugging his apartment thus, he cannot have sexual relations with his visiting ex-wife, and he takes the book to bed with him instead. It should have been inscribed on the walls of a public lavatory.' Most were former Union soldiers eager to invest their savings in this promising new frontier, and civilians lured south by press reports of 'the fabulous sums of money to be made in the South in raising cotton.' His recurring fictional character, ex-governor Clinton Tyree is portrayed as a rarity for being one of the few candidates for that office born and raised in the state.

'Carpetbagger Rule in Reconstruction Texas: an Enduring Myth.'. TourgГ©e later wrote A Fool's Errand, a largely autobiographical novel about an idealistic carpetbagger persecuted by the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. In 1870, Northerners controlled 21% of the South's railroads (by mileage) 19% of the directors were from the North. The 'Black and Tan' (biracial) constitutional convention in Mississippi in 1868 included 30 white Southerners, 17 Southern freedmen and 24 non-southerners, nearly all of whom were veterans of the Union Army. Sv:Carpetbaggers He was the first-known black Democrat elected to the Arkansas General Assembly. Robbins never settles for reminding the reader of a real person he always follows this created character through to his logical development in a clearly orchestrated plot.ДЄfter Jonas, the most striking character in the book is perhaps Rina Marlowe, a conflation of Jean Harlow (for the unfortunate sex life.Carpetbaggers the outsiders | The real Howard Hughes had no daughter to disown mistakenly, but Cord's discovery of his mistake provides effective closure for this complex narrative. Robbins is a master of the roman a clef mode, giving his readers more than enough information to make the connection but then improving on prurient curiosity with a fictional closure that explains (and explains away) just how Cord became such a hard-driving and hard-driven character. The Carpetbaggers is a roman a clef, and the main character Jonas Cord is an obvious portrait of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes - in his earlier, more active years.

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