Crossing the Aisle: How Bipartisanship Brought Tennessee to the Twenty-First Century and Could Save America

Rate this book Arrow Icon

Key Metrics

AuthorKeel Hunt
PublisherVanderbilt University Press
PublishedNov 21 2018
Book FormatHardcover
ISBN-139780826522399
Dimensions10.48 X 7.78 X 1.14 inches
Weight 1.82 pounds
BISAC
CategoriesPolitical Science > American Government - State
LanguageEnglish

List Price:

Save:

$0 ($%)

Format:

Hardcover

Shipping

Ships from:

Estimated Arrival:

May 8 -May 10

Available Copies:

10+ Copies

Ready To Buy:

Add to Cart

Secure Transaction

Sold By:

Readara.com

Add to My Wishlist

I want 10 - 1,000 copies

Book Description

The latter third of the twentieth 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 and health care--flourished in Tennessee. This was the work of moderate leaders from 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 frustrating era of partisan stalemate.

For more on Crossing the Aisle and author Keel Hunt, visit KeelHunt.com.

Author Bio

Keel Hunt is a columnist for the USA Today Network in Tennessee. He has been a reporter, editor, Washington correspondent, and editorial writer. From 1979 to 1986 he was Special Assistant to Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander.

The founder of The Strategy Group, the Nashville public affairs firm whose clients have included HCA, The Frist Foundation, First Tennessee Bank, Vanderbilt University, and Meharry Medical College.

Crossing the Aisle (2018) was a follow up to his debut work of nonfiction, Coup: The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor, also published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2013, with an expanded edition in 2017. Keel’s latest book The Family Business is a first-ever inside look at how Ingram Book Company became one of the world’s leading media businesses that almost no one knows.

He enjoys his family, photography and his blog, the Field Notes. He and his wife Marsha live in Nashville and Sanibel Island, Florida.

Source: keelhunt.com