The Carmack-Cooper Shooting : Tennessee Politics Turns Violent, November 9, 1908

Summerville, James

McFarland & Co Inc（2014/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 231 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786493869
• DDC分類 364.13109768

Full Description

Late on the afternoon of November 9, 1908, five shots rang out from the corner of Seventh and Union in downtown Nashville. As the echoes faded, former U.S. Senator Edward W. Carmack lay dead and Robin J. Cooper, son of prominent businessman Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, reeled from the impact of a bullet intended for his father.

Was it a planned assassination or just an unfortunate incident in an old friendship that politics had turned into bitter enmity?

Through extensive research, including a study of actual trial documents and the papers of both Cooper and Carmack, this account explores the events leading up to this deadly encounter and the resulting murder trial that has gone down in history as one of the South's most famous.

Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

 1. The Killing

 2. The Senator

 3. The Colonel

 4. The Trial

 5. The Whirligig of Politics

 6. The Murder of Robin Cooper

Epilogue. The Days of Ninevah and Tyre

Notes

Works Cited

Index