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Book Synopsis The Byrd Machine in Virginia by : Michael Lee Pope
Download or read book The Byrd Machine in Virginia written by Michael Lee Pope and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byrd Machine ran Virginia politics for more than half a century. This political organization rose to power during the era of Jim Crow, wielding power and influence over everything from who got the nod to be governor to how the state maintained racial segregation. Inheriting its tactics from two previous political machines, the Byrd organization operated with a pathological hatred of debt spending, crushing the power of labor unions and forcing its will on Black schoolchildren protesting separate and unequal facilities. The nadir of its era was massive resistance, a move to close public schools rather than integrate them. Journalist and author Michael Lee Pope details the rise and fall of the last great political machine in Virginia.
Book Synopsis The Byrd Machine in Virginia: The Rise and Fall of a Conservative Political Organization by : Michael Lee Pope
Download or read book The Byrd Machine in Virginia: The Rise and Fall of a Conservative Political Organization written by Michael Lee Pope and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byrd Machine ran Virginia politics for more than half a century. This political organization rose to power during the era of Jim Crow, wielding power and influence over everything from who got the nod to be governor to how the state maintained racial segregation. Inheriting its tactics from two previous political machines, the Byrd organization operated with a pathological hatred of debt spending, crushing the power of labor unions and forcing its will on Black schoolchildren protesting separate and unequal facilities. The nadir of its era was massive resistance, a move to close public schools rather than integrate them. Journalist and author Michael Lee Pope details the rise and fall of the last great political machine in Virginia.
Book Synopsis The Dynamic Dominion by : Frank B. Atkinson
Download or read book The Dynamic Dominion written by Frank B. Atkinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-07-21 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dynamic Dominion tells the dramatic story of Virginia's political transformation from the Second World War to the Reagan Revolution. The cradle of American democracy — and thus of the democratic movement that is sweeping the globe today — the venerable Old Dominion has emerged again in the second half of the 20th century as a dynamic political pace setter for the nation. In 1945, Virginia was a one-party, one-faction state under the aristocratic rule of conservative Democratic Senator Harry F. Byrd and his famed 'Byrd organization.' From his perch as the uncontested leader of the state that led the south, Virginia's Byrd became a regional symbol, a congressional kingpin, and a national power. With its political system and culture static, Virginia's voice was heard nationally mostly in dissent, as it had been for a century. Within a few decades, emerging two-party competition and an unprecedented party realignment combined to place the rapidly changing commonwealth in the national vanguard. Well before Republican parties throughout the South became competitive, Virginia's Republicans in the 1970s compiled the most impressive winning streak of any state party in the country. They did it by constructing a coalition of rural conservative Democrats and suburban Republicans — the same coalition that Ronald Reagan assembled nationwide in 1980, ushering in the Reagan Revolution. As told in The Dynamic Dominion, the Virginia story contains all the excitement, drama, conflict, and intrigue of a fast-paced thriller. It is a story of triumph and tragedy, celebrities and statesmen, heroes and scoundrels — of shifting party loyalties and makeshift coalitions, hard-fought campaigns and razor-close elections — of ambition and cynicism alongside sacrifice and idealism. Best of all, the tale is true. It is the fascinating story of contemporary democracy flourishing in Virginia . . . the place where it was born.
Book Synopsis Building the Federal Schoolhouse by : Douglas S. Reed
Download or read book Building the Federal Schoolhouse written by Douglas S. Reed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past fifty years, the federal government's efforts to reform American public education have transformed U.S. schools from locally-run enterprises into complex systems jointly constructed by federal, state, and local actors. The construction of this federal schoolhouse-an educational system with common national expectations and practices-has fundamentally altered both education politics and the norms governing educational policy at the local level. Building the Federal Schoolhouse examines these issues through an in-depth, fifty-year examination of federal educational policies in the community of Alexandria, Virginia, a wealthy yet socially diverse suburb of Washington, D.C. The epochal social transformations that swept through America in the past half century hit Alexandria with particular force, transforming its Jim Crow school system into a new immigrant gateway district within two generations. Along the way, the school system has struggled to provide quality education for special needs students, and has sought to overcome the legacies of tracking and segregated learning while simultaneously retaining upper-middle class students. Most recently, it has grappled with state and federally imposed accountability measures that seek to boost educational outcomes. All of these policy initiatives have contended with the existing political regime within Alexandria, at times forcing it to a breaking point, and at other times reconstructing it. All the while, the local expectations and governing realities of administrators, parents, politicians, and voters have sharply constrained federal initiatives, limiting their scope when in conflict with local commitments and amplifying them when they align. Through an extensive use of local archives, contemporary accounts, school data, and interviews, Douglas S. Reed not only paints an intimate portrait of the conflicts that the federal schoolhouse's creation has wrought in Alexandria, but also documents the successes of the federal commitment to greater educational opportunity. In so doing, he highlights the complexity of the American education state and the centrality of local regimes and local historical context to federal educational reform efforts.
Book Synopsis The New Dominion by : John G. Milliken
Download or read book The New Dominion written by John G. Milliken and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Dominion analyzes six key statewide elections to explore the demographic, cultural, and economic changes that drove the transformation of the state’s politics and shaped the political Virginia of today. Countering the common narrative that the shifting politics of Virginia is a recent phenomenon driven by population growth in the urban corridor, the contributors to this volume consider the antecedents to the rise of Virginia as a two-party competitive state in the critical elections of the twentieth century that they profile.
Book Synopsis Southern Politics in the 1990s by : Alexander P. Lamis
Download or read book Southern Politics in the 1990s written by Alexander P. Lamis and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1990s, the Republican party surged to majority status in the South after two decades of struggling unevenly to become established in the formerly one-party Democratic section of the country. In this comprehensive, up-to-date study, seasoned observers tell the fascinating story of the GOP’s remarkable advance at the regional level and in each of the eleven states of the former Confederacy, effectively capturing the current partisan dynamics at work throughout Dixie. In Southern Politics in the 1990s eleven teams of political scientists and journalists—all of them long-time observers of the political scene in their own states—offer individual chapters that closely examine partisan and electoral developments in each southern state. Alexander P. Lamis frames the state discussions with introductory and concluding chapters that highlight the evolution of the two-party South and the political transformation the region as a whole underwent during the decade of the 1990s. Together, the authors show that the amazing Republican spurt was fueled by many factors, including the ongoing entrenchment of the partisan competition begun three decades earlier; the national Republican sweep of 1994 that affected all regions of the country equally; and the successful efforts of Republicans to paint the Democrats as hopelessly mired in a corrupt political system and themselves as untainted reformers who represent the future. However, as the separate state chapters illustrate, the pace of change differed from state to state. For example, South Carolina was an early Dixie leader in the GOP’s growth in the 1990s, but Arkansas caught the wave only in the middle of the decade. Offering in-depth political analysis on both the state and the regional level, Southern Politics in the 1990s reveals that the 1990s revolution in southern politics gave the country, for the first time since the 1850s, a truly national party system. The book will prove essential to anyone interested in southern politics at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis The Rise of Massive Resistance by : Numan V. Bartley
Download or read book The Rise of Massive Resistance written by Numan V. Bartley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969, The Rise of Massive Resistance was the first scholarly work to deal decisively with the politics of southern resistance to public school integration. Today, it remains one of the most important books on the subject. For this thirtieth anniversary edition, Numan Bartley has included a new preface in which he reflects on his reasons for writing the book and why it has stood the test of time. Bartley gives a step-by-step account of opposition to school desegregation in each southern state during the 1950s and clarifies the attitudes underlying massive resistance by examining the roles played by such southern leaders as James F. Byrnes, Harry Flood Byrd, James O. Eastland, Orval E. Faubus, Claude Pepper, Estes Kefauver, Richard B. Russell, Herman Talmadge, “Big Jim” Folsom, and Earl K. Long. He also closely analyzes the attitudes of the Eisenhower administration and national leaders toward the South and explores the activities of the Citizens’ Councils, the Ku Klux Klan, and other local groups that emerged to defend “the southern way of life.” His closing “Critical Essay on Authorities” still forms an excellent guide to primary and secondary sources on opposition to Brown v. Board of Education.
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Book Synopsis Shotgun Justice by : Michael Lee Pope
Download or read book Shotgun Justice written by Michael Lee Pope and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Crandal Mackey was elected commonwealth's attorney in 1903, he set his sights on the illegal bars, bordellos and casinos of Alexandria County. The Virginia county--now Arlington County and parts of Alexandria--was plagued by crime in the streets and corruption at City Hall. Armed with a shotgun and accompanied by an axe-wielding posse, Mackey embarked on a crusade, busting up saloons and conducting raids throughout the county. When the dust settled, Mackey had shut down an infamous racetrack in Del Ray and politicians on the take in Alexandria County's political machine. Yet, in 1915 he mysteriously withdrew his bid for another term. Author Michael Lee Pope uncovers the little-known story of one man's battle to rid Alexandria and Arlington of sinister vice and violent crime.
Book Synopsis Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory by : Matthew Mace Barbee
Download or read book Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory written by Matthew Mace Barbee and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory Matthew Mace Barbee explores the long history of Richmond, Virginia’s iconic Monument Avenue. As a network of important memorials to Confederate leaders located in the former capitol of the Confederacy, Monument Avenue has long been central to the formation of public memory in Virginia and the U.S. South. It has also been a site of multiple controversies over what, who, and how Richmond’s past should be commemorated. This book traces the evolution of Monument Avenue by analyzing public discussions of its memorials and their meaning. It pays close attention to the origins of Monument Avenue and the first statues erected there, including memorials to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. Barbee provides a detailed and focused analysis of the evolution of Monument Avenue and public memory in Richmond from 1948 to 1996 through the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil War Centennial, and up to the memorial to Arthur Ashe erected in 1996. An African-American native of Richmond, Ashe was an international tennis champion and advocate for human rights. The story of how a monument to him ended up in a space previously reserved for statues of Confederate leaders helps us understand the ways Richmond has grappled with its past, especially the histories of slavery, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights.
Book Synopsis The Last of the Big-time Bosses by : Warren Moscow
Download or read book The Last of the Big-time Bosses written by Warren Moscow and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about politics, not as it is taught to children in schools or to adults who believe what they read in the papers, but about politics as the manufacturing of candidates, the staging of elections, the assumption of power and the accumulation of wealth by the puppet masters. Mayor Daley is an elected boss; so is Nelson Rockefeller. Carmine De Sapio was the last of the backstage bosses, perhaps the most powerful such boss of recent times -- and yet he was never elected to any office until long after he had become a political legend. In 1970 he was convicted having conspired to bribe a public official and share in the proceeds of selling influence he no longer controlled. Yet when he was sentenced to two years in prison there were no cheers. His supporters and antagonists shared the feeling that they had witnessed a kind of tragedy. De Sapio's demise signaled the death, not only of big-time bossism, but of New York's Tammany Hall itself. The last of the big-time bosses had reformed the corrupt machine which had run New York's politics for so many years, and in the process, had destroyed his own career. The cast of characters includes such people as Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman, Robert Wagner, John Lindsay, mobster Frank Costello, Alex Rose, and the villains and anti-villains who created the political texture of their time. Much of Warren Moscow's fascinating story has never been revealed, and certainly it has never been seen as a whole. Mr. Moscow was there to see everything -- from the inside as a city official and from the outside as a New York Times reporter. He has given us a book that will rank with Royko's Boss and Goodman's A Percentage fo the Take.
Book Synopsis At the Falls by : Marie Tyler-McGraw
Download or read book At the Falls written by Marie Tyler-McGraw and published by University of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Falls: Richmond, Virginia, and Its People
Book Synopsis Hidden History of Alexandria, D.C. by : Michael Lee Pope
Download or read book Hidden History of Alexandria, D.C. written by Michael Lee Pope and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go inside the long-forgotten 19th century period when Alexandria left Virginia and incorporated itself into the fledging Distric of Columbia. This groundbreaking history uncovers the time in the 19th century when Alexandria left the commonwealth of Virginia and became incorporated into the emerging District of Columbia. It was an experiment that failed after half a century of neglect and a growing animosity between North and South. However, it was a fascinating time when cannon were dragged onto city streets for political rallies, candidates plied their voters with liquor and devastating fires ravaged the city.
Book Synopsis Harper's Magazine by : Lee Foster Hartman
Download or read book Harper's Magazine written by Lee Foster Hartman and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important American periodical dating back to 1850.
Book Synopsis Comprehensive Dissertation Index by :
Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Supplement to the Encyclopedia of the Republican Party and the Encyclopedia of the Democratic Party by : George Thomas Kurian
Download or read book Supplement to the Encyclopedia of the Republican Party and the Encyclopedia of the Democratic Party written by George Thomas Kurian and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Supplement to the Encyclopedia of the Republican Party and Supplement to the Encyclopedia of the Democratic Party by : George Thomas Kurian
Download or read book Supplement to the Encyclopedia of the Republican Party and Supplement to the Encyclopedia of the Democratic Party written by George Thomas Kurian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of developments in the Republican Party between 1996 and 2001, which covers elections, national issues, ideology, campaigns and platforms, and the impeachment of President Clinton, and presents biographies of national leaders, members of Congress, and governors; state portraits; and national political statistics.
