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

Hunt, Keel

Vanderbilt University Press（2018/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 368 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780826522399
• DDC分類 306.2097680904

Full Description

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.

Contents

Foreword by Jon Meacham
Introduction: The In-Between Time
1. Wild Ride to Washington
2. The Six-Hour Boot Camp
3. Blue State Turning Red
4. Picking Up the Pieces
5. Lamar and Ned
6. Political Family Trees
7. Strange Bedfellows
8. Jobs for Memphis
9. The Phone Call That Changed Everything
10. Nissan Arrives
11. Megatrends Tennessee
12. Ground Zero Knoxville 1982
13. Mothers and Babies
14. Chattanooga: From Dirtiest to All-American City
15. The Fight for Better Schools
16. Landing Saturn
17. The Roads to Better Jobs
18. The Homecoming
19. The Prison Problem
20. The Game Changer
21. Nashville and the "Civic Furniture"
22. Hockey Skates In
23. How the NFL Came to Tennessee
24. History and Handoffs
25. Fast Forward
Timeline: 1978-2002
The Interviews
Bibliography and Recommended Reading
Acknowledgments
Index