TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilder,L.Douglas
TI  - Son of Virginia: A Life in America's Political Arena
SN  - 9781493019526
AV  - F231.3.W55 -- .W553 2015eb 
U1  - 975.5/043092 B 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Globe Pequot Press, The
KW  - Wilder, Lawrence Douglas,-1931-
KW  - African American politicians-Virginia-Biography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CHAPTER ONE Carry Me Back -- CHAPTER TWO Sergeant Wilder -- CHAPTER THREE The Home Trenches -- CHAPTER FOUR Political Muscle -- CHAPTER FIVE Re-Digging the Well -- CHAPTER SIX Virginia Is Ready -- CHAPTER SEVEN In the Saddle -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Race Goes On -- CHAPTER NINE Reclaiming the Devil's Half Acre -- CHAPTER TEN Ringing the Bell -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author
N2  - The autobiography of Lawrence Douglas Wilder, a grandson of slaves, who was sworn in as Governor of Virginia in a January 1990 ceremony that changed the political face of the United States. In Virginia, long ago the centerpiece of the Confederacy, Wilder became the first African American to assume a governorship by virtue of winning a popular vote
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ER  -