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Jonathan Worth, lawyer, businessman, public financier, and finally governor of North Carolina, typified the Union advocate of the antebellum South. This skillful biography explores in detail Worth's efforts to avoid secession in 1861, his lack of enthusiasm for the Civil War, and his rejection of the reconstruction proposals.

Discusses political life and the restoration of government in North Carolina following the Civil War. It also presents problems and adjustments faced by the state's African American and white citizens. Among the topics covered are the Ku Klux Klan, the Freedmen's Bureau, the Kirk-Holden War, and the impeachment of Gov. William W. Holden.