Crossing the Aisle

How Bipartisanship Brought Tennessee to the Twenty-First Century and Could Save America
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8265-2239-9
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 198 mm x 266 mm, Gewicht: 826 g

The latter third of the 20th Century was a time of fundamental political transition across the South as increasing numbers of voters began to choose Republican candidates over Democrats. Yet in the 1980s and 90s, reform-focused policymaking—from better schools to improved highways to healthcare—in Tennessee flourished. This was the handiwork of moderate leaders of both parties who had a capacity to work together ""across the aisle.""

The Tennessee story, as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham observes in his foreword to this book, offers striking examples of bipartisan cooperation on many policy fronts - and a mode of governing that provides lessons for America in this current time of partisan stalemate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hunt, Keel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landesverwaltung

Über Autor(innen)

Keel Hunt has been a Washington correspondent, editorial writer, and columnist for The Tennessean in Nashville. He was Special Assistant to Governor Lamar Alexander from 1979 to 1986, then founded the public affairs firm The Strategy Group. He lives in Nashville and Sanibel Island, Florida.