{"product_id":"pinchback-americas-first-black-governor-hardback-9781496859907","title":"Pinchback; America's First Black Governor (Hardback) 9781496859907","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePinchback\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmerica's First Black Governor\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNicholas Patler (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496859907\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 September 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e226 pages, 31 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"When I think about P. B. S. Pinchback, the first word that comes to mind is ‘redoubtable.’ Like his contemporaries, he proved to be a wise and savvy statesman at a time when African American politicians were dismissed as unintelligent and corrupt. During his short tenure as governor of Louisiana, this son of a slave served with integrity and deftness. He turned out to be just the anti-hero that Reconstruction politics needed. Nicholas Patler does an amazing job of chronicling the seemingly complex and paradoxical life of P. B. S. Pinchback.\" - Matthew Lynch, scholar and educator\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBorn to a formerly enslaved mother and a white planter father, P. B. S. Pinchback (1837–1921) became the first African American governor in the United States. His tenure as governor of Louisiana was brief—a mere thirty-five days—but he remains one of the most prominent African American officeholders during the Reconstruction Era. Yet despite being a pivotal figure in the post-Civil War South, attempts to tell his story have been incomplete. From the deep influence of a mother who had spent half of her life in bondage, to the ambiguity of racial identity in Pinchback’s life and world, to a political career that was as tumultuous and rich as any in American history, the life and career of Pinchback are far more interesting and complex than most historians have portrayed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume presents Pinchback’s story more fully and accurately, exploring the larger and more nuanced account of how Pinchback used strategy and skill to overcome obstacles, maintain power, and push an agenda of rights and equality during the Reconstruction Era, often in the face of great adversity. Pinchback worked feverishly to help create and nurture a democratized environment that made African Americans and Creoles the political and even social equals of white Louisianans. This was a sweeping change that only a few years earlier most people could have hardly dreamed possible. In every sense of the word, it was a revolution that reconfigured the political and social landscape and transformed life as everyone had once known it.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Pinchback’s Early Years: From Caswell County, NC, to New Orleans, LA\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Pinchback Joins the Struggle for Liberation: From Early Life on the River to Captain in the Army\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Pinchback, Nina, and the Rise in the New Orleans Republican Party\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Pinchback and the Louisiana Constitutional Convention: \"All persons shall enjoy equal rights and privileges . . . without distinction or discrimination on account of race or color\" \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Pinchback in the Louisiana State Senate: A Whirlwind Crusade to Bring Equality to the Deep South\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: \"Why, damn it, everybody is demoralized down here\": The Struggle for Louisiana Lieutenant Governor\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Lieutenant Governor Pinchback and the Race to Save the Republican Party\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Thirty-Six Days that Changed History: The First Black Governor\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: \"The Star of my Hope\": Pinchback’s Fight for the US Senate\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: After Reconstruction: Pinchback’s Post-Senate Career and Life\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607744901400,"sku":"9781496859907","price":73.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/pinchback-americas-first-black-governor-hardback-9781496859907","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}