The history of Louisiana is replete with many prominent personalities who were instrumental in guiding the social and political direction of the state through the portentous decades of the nineteenth century.

There were individuals in Louisiana who rose for periods of time to greater levels of political and social influence; however, no other individual in nineteenth-century Louisiana sustained as high a position of influence for a longer period of time than Duncan Kenner. On first view his life appears to personify much of the glamorized "moonlight and magnolias" culture that has characterized so much of literature on the nineteenth-century South. However, this examination of Kenner reveals a far more capitalistic and multi-dimensional existence than the aristocratic lifestyle associate with the Southern planter.

The author offers the reader not only a fresh look at an important Lousisianian of the past but also places Kenner within the perspective of his times.

Craig A. Bauer is a native of New Orlean with a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi. A member of the Lousiana Historical Association, the Southern Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, Bauer is also a charter member, board member, and past president of the Jefferson Historical Society of Louisiana. Bauer has contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals and is the author of Creole genesis: The finger Family and Antebellum Plantation Life in Louisiana. He is currently a professor of the History and Social Sciences at Our Lady of Holy Cross College in New Orleans.

ISBN: 978-1-935754-58-9

6 x 9

Paperback

358 pages

University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2016

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