eBook: Coup: The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor, Put Republican Lamar Alexander in Office Early, and Stopped a Pardon Scandal (DRM EPUB)
 
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作者: Keel Hunt, John L. Seigenthaler, Lamar Alexander 
分類: History of the Americas ,
Elections & referenda ,
c 1970 to c 1980 ,
USA  
書城編號: 20586982


售價: $260.00

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製造商: Vanderbilt University Press
出版日期: 2021/04/30
頁數: 344
ISBN: 9780826504074
 
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Coup is the behind-the-scenes story of an abrupt political transition, unprecedented in US history. Based on 163 interviews, Hunt describes how collaborators came together from opposite sides of the political aisle and, in an extraordinary few hours, reached agreement that the corruption and madness of the sitting Governor of Tennessee, Ray Blanton, must be stopped. The sudden transfer of power that caught Blanton unawares was deemed necessary because of what one FBI agent called the states most heinous political crime in half a centurya scheme of selling pardons for cash. On January 17, 1979, driven by new information that some of the worst criminals in the states penitentiaries were about to be released (and fears that James Earl Ray might be one of them), a small bipartisan group chose to take charge. Senior Democratic leaders, friends of the sitting governor, together with the Republican governor-elect Lamar Alexander (now US Senator from Tennessee), agreed to oust Blanton from office before another night fell. It was a maneuver unique in American political history.Expanded edition, with a newly discovered account of the events by Senator Lamar Alexander: In December 2015 something unexpected happened. Keel [Hunt] delivered to my Nashville office a brown three-ring binder. He had only recently discovered it in a box that had been in storage for thirty years. Senator Lamar Alexander This binder contained the forgotten typescript, written in 1985, of Alexanders recollections of the events leading up to his early inauguration on January 17, 1979. In this expanded edition of Coup, the Senators 22,000-word text has been added as a lost footnote to Hunts definitive account.From the foreword by John L. Seigenthaler: The individual stories of those government officials involved in the coupeach account unique, but all of them intersectingwere scattered like disconnected pieces of a jigsaw puzzle on the table of history until the author conceived this book. Perhaps because it happened so quickly, and without major disagreement, protest, or dissent, this truly historic moment has been buried in the public mind. In unearthing the drama in gripping detail, Keel Hunt assures that the dark day will be remembered as a bright one in which conflicted politicians came together in the public interest.
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