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"The 'Fighting Parson' has endured the passage of time and changing interpretation and remains an enduring and scholarly work." —Tennessee Historical Quarterly"We should know Parson Brownlow. The successes and failures of his radicalism can instruct us in more constructive ways for our own time." —Knoxville News-SentinelTennessee has had its share of outrageous characters over the years but none more outrageous than William G. Brownlow. A legend in his own time and a myth in times after, Parson Brownlow was a circuit-riding Methodist minister, upstart journalist, and political activist who wielded a vitriolic tongue and pen in defense of both slavery and the Union.E. Merton Coulter's 1937 biography of Brownlow remains the standard account of the Parson and his times. It traces his religious, journalistic, and political career and shows that wherever he went, Brownlow created a storm, becoming a hero to his admirers and the devil incarnate to his enemies. "If I have any talent in the world," he once wrote, "it is that talent which consists in piling up one epithet upon another."Coulter drew on a wide range of sources and his own knowledge of Southern history to bring Parson Brownlow

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Author

E. Merton Coulter; with a new introduction by Stephen V. Ash

Publisher

University of Tennessee Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781572330504

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.6 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14