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The Fall of Kentucky's Rock : Western Kentucky Democratic Politics since the New Deal /

"This in-depth study offers a new examination of a region that is often overlooked in political histories of the Bluegrass State. George G. Humphreys traces the arc of politics and the economy in western Kentucky from avid support of the Democratic Party to its present-day Republican identity....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Humphreys, George G., 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Western Kentucky: A Geographical, Economic, and Historical Introduction
  • The New Deal and Western Kentucky
  • From the Ohio River Great Flood to the Atomic Age
  • Happy Days and the Last Hurrah of State Democratic Party Factionalism
  • From Democratic Resurgence to the Collapse of the Gibraltar of Kentucky Democracy.