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Crossing the aisle : how bipartisanship brought Tennessee to the twenty-first century and could save America / Keel Hunt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunt, Keel, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--Tennessee--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- Representative government and representation--Tennessee--History--20th century.
- Representative government and representation.
- Political leadership--Tennessee--History--20th century.
- Political leadership.
- Tennessee--Politics and government--1951-.
- Tennessee.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (370 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- A tale of remarkable, bipartisan progress in Tennessee during the 1980s and 1990s.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword by Jon Meacham
- Introduction: The In-Between Time
- 1. Wild Ride to Washington
- 2. The Six-Hour Boot Camp
- 3. Blue State Turning Red
- 4. Picking Up the Pieces
- 5. Lamar and Ned
- 6. Political Family Trees
- 7. Strange Bedfellows
- 8. Jobs for Memphis
- 9. The Phone Call That Changed Everything
- 10. Nissan Arrives
- 11. Megatrends Tennessee
- 12. Ground Zero Knoxville 1982
- 13. Mothers and Babies
- 14. Chattanooga: From Dirtiest to All-American City
- 15. The Fight for Better Schools
- 16. Landing Saturn
- 17. The Roads to Better Jobs
- 18. The Homecoming
- 19. The Prison Problem
- 20. The Game Changer
- 21. Nashville and the "Civic Furniture
- 22. Hockey Skates In
- 23. How the NFL Came to Tennessee
- 24. History and Handoffs
- 25. Fast Forward
- Timeline 1978-2002: What Happened in the In-Between Time
- The Interviews
- Bibliography and Recommended Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Photo Gallery
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780826504173
- 0826504175
- 9780826522412
- 0826522416
- OCLC:
- 1061091440
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