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- 607316689733399
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN-10
0826521843
ISBN-13
9780826521842
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234992849
Product Key Features
Book Title
Coup : The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor, Put Republican Lamar Alexander in Office Early, and Stopped a Pardon Scandal
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Corruption & Misconduct, American Government / State
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
27.9 Oz
Item Length
10.2 in
Item Width
7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-033922
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"There is so much to enjoy about this book whose title of Coup , connoting anarchy, violence and warring factions, ironically relates a success story of political rivals in transitioning power. It is a testament to the character of the people involved and also a testament to the can-do state of Tennessee." -- Tennessee Bar Journal, "A recommended read for anyone interested in Tennessee history or politics." --Tom Humphrey, Knoxville News Sentinel, "There was a time when government was willing to act. Keel Hunt was a key player on one such occasion in Tennessee and tells the story with elegance and precision. This book tells about government doing what's needed--quickly, without hand-wringing and without seeking partisan advantage. Every elected official in America should read it." -- Phil Bredesen , Governor of Tennessee, 2003-2011, "...a deeply researched, highly engrossing, minute-by-minute account of the day a bunch of Democrats ousted their crooked governor and installed a Republican before his scheduled inauguration." --Betty Bean, Shopper News, "The story of Alexander's early inauguration--the only one of its kind in American history--is told with page-turning intensity." -- Claremont Review of Books, "History can be opaque, but not this history: in Keel Hunt's capable hands a critical but often-overlooked chapter in American politics comes to vivid life. In the last days of a Tennessee governorship, the Democratic incumbent, soon to depart, began selling pardons, fundamentally betraying the public trust. A dynamic young Republican governor-elect, Lamar Alexander, came into the breach as Democrats reached out to him to take office early and save the state further chaos and embarrassment. And so he did. Now, in this expanded edition of Hunt's excellent narrative, we have, for the first time, Alexander's own long-missing recollections of these tense days. The result is a brilliantly evocative story of crisis management--a story everyone interested in American politics and power should know." -- Jon Meacham , author of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House and Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, "Keel Hunt gives us a fascinating account of an important moment in Tennessee history. It's a story of a time when Tennesseans of both parties came together to resolve a crisis that had rocked the state." -- Fred Thompson , US Senator from Tennessee, 1994-2003
Dewey Decimal
976.8/053
Table Of Content
Author's Preface to the Expanded Edition Foreword by John L. Seigenthaler Chapter 1: The Stranger Chapter 2: The Sharecropper's Son and Nixon's Choirboy Chapter 3: The Red-and-Black Plaid Shirt Chapter 4: The Murders Chapter 5: The Madness Chapter 6: A Man of Great Promise Chapter 7: The Dominion of the Editor-in-Chief Chapter 8: The Attorney General and the Rule of Law Illustration Gallery 1 Chapter 9: The New List and the Ticking Clock Chapter 10: The Turmoil Chapter 11: The Call Chapter 12: The Rise of the Speaker Chapter 13: The Cosmos of the Lieutenant Governor Chapter 14: The Dance Chapter 15: The Decision Illustration Gallery 2 Chapter 16: The Yellow-Dog Chief Justice Chapter 17: The Arrival Chapter 18: The Oath Chapter 19: The Scramble Chapter 20: The Long Night Chapter 21: The White Morning Epilogue: What Became of Them Timeline Postscript: A Note on Sources The Interviews Bibliography Acknowledgments Lost Manuscript Found: My View of the Coup from the Eye of the Storm by Lamar Alexander Index
Edition Description
Enlarged edition
Synopsis
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 state's most heinous political crime in half a century"--a scheme of selling pardons for cash. On January 17, 1979, driven by new information that some of the worst criminals in the state's 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 Alexander's recollections of the events leading up to his early inauguration on January 17, 1979. In this expanded edition of Coup , the Senator's 22,000-word text has been added as a lost footnote to Hunt's definitive account. From the foreword by John L. Seigenthaler: "The individual stories of those government officials involved in the coup--each account unique, but all of them intersecting--were 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.", 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 state's most heinous political crime in half a century"-a scheme of selling pardons for cash. On January 17, 1979, driven by new information that some of the worst criminals in the state's 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 Alexander's recollections of the events leading up to his early inauguration on January 17, 1979. In this expanded edition of Coup , the Senator's 22,000-word text has been added as a lost footnote to Hunt's definitive account. From the foreword by John L. Seigenthaler: "The individual stories of those government officials involved in the coup-each account unique, but all of them intersecting-were 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.", 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 state's most heinous political crime in half a century"--a scheme of selling pardons for cash. On January 17, 1979, driven by new information that some of the worst criminals in the state's 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 Alexander's recollections of the events leading up to his early inauguration on January 17, 1979. In this expanded edition of Coup , the Senator's 22,000-word text has been added as a lost footnote to Hunt's definitive account. From the foreword by John L. Seigenthaler: "The individual stories of those government officials involved in the coup--each account unique, but all of them intersecting--were 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."
LC Classification Number
F440.H86 2017
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