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Coup : The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor, Put Republican Lamar Alexander in Office Early, and Stopped a Pardon Scandal /
"Coup is the behind-the-scenes story of a day that was not supposed to happen in America - the abrupt transition from one Governor to the next - that did happen in Tennessee in January 1979. It was unprecedented in American history, made national headlines, and stunned the political power struc...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville, Tennessee :
Vanderbilt University Press,
[2017]
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| Edición: | Expanded edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The stranger
- The sharecropper's son and Nixon's choirboy
- The red-and-black plaid shirt
- The murders
- The madness
- A man of great promise
- The dominion of the Editor-in-Chief
- The Attorney General and the rule of law
- Illustration gallery
- The new list and the ticking clock
- The turmoil
- The call
- The rise of the speaker
- The cosmos of the Lieutenant Governor
- The dance
- The decision
- Illustration gallery
- The yellow-dog Chief Justice
- The arrival
- The oath
- The scramble
- The long night
- The white morning
- Epilogue: what became of them
- Timeline
- Postscript: A note on sources
- Sources: The interviews
- Lost manuscript found: My view of the coup from the eye of the storm / by Lamar Alexander.