The Secrets of the Hopewell Box: Stolen Elections, Southern Politics, and a City's Coming of Age
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Squires' . . . grandfather was a sheriff's deputy who carried a gun and a clenched fist, a man whose talk with cronies was full of references to 'sonofabitching judges' and 'goddamn n*****s.' He was also, Squires relates, one of the muscle men behind a vicious cabal of power brokers headed by one Boss Crump. . . . That machine involved, for a time, much of Nashville's leading citizenry. It engineered elections, stole votes, organized lynch mobs, ran an illegal gambling empire, and in the 1950s, when it appeared that the traditional Democratic Party was going soft on civil rights, brokered the advent of Republicanism in one corner of the South.
--Kirkus Reviews
--Kirkus Reviews
His richly-textured narrative charts the Nashville machine's rupture with the state's top political boss, Edward Crump of Memphis, and traces the sweeping reforms that shattered rural white control of the state legislature. Squires dramatically reenacts the downfall of Nashville lawyer Tommy Osborne, convicted of jury tampering in 1964 after defending Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. He follows Nashville's transformation into a crucible of the civil rights movement in this stirring chronicle of the South's coming-of-age.
--Publishers Weekly
Back in print (the book was originally published by Random House in 1996) and available for the first time in electronic form.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0826519245
ISBN13:9780826519245
Release Date:February 2013
Publisher:Vanderbilt University Press
Length:326 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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A fascinating look at rough and tumble southern politics.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
Jim Squires spins a wonderful memoir of his family and old time southern politics. From stolen ballot boxes to court room shenanigans in Nashville before it was the country music capitol. This book has a lot to offer; from the "Bubbas" and "Bubettes" of local politics to the war between Bobby Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa as it was fought out in a Nashville courtroom. Squires proves that truth can be more exciting than fiction
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