The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government

by Howard E. Covington Jr.

The Good Government Man captures the life of Albert Coates (1896-1989), the founder and first director of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina, and an exciting, transformative era in the history of UNC. Inspired by visionary President Edward Kidder Graham--whose death during the influenza pandemic of 1918 devastated the campus--Coates adopted as his life mission his hero's dream of the university in service to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080783453X
• ISBN13: 9780807834534
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Unc at Chapel Hill Library
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"