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Warren A. Trest

Nobody But the People: The Life and Times of Alabamaas Youngest Governor

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In this first authorized biography of former Alabama Governor John Patterson, historian Warren Trest offers new insights and rich details into the life of a significant Southern politician whose career touched some of the key struggles of the twentieth-century civil rights movement. Patterson later recanted his segregationist views and went on to become a widely respected judge, but as governor from 1958-62, he led Alabama into full white-supremacist rebellion against the national effort to integrate schools and public accommodations. He was a rare Southern supporter of JFK in 1960, but the two broke bitterly over the 1961 Freedom Rides and K… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-58838-221-4
  • EAN: 9781588382214
  • Produktnummer: 23735349
  • Verlag: Newsouth Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 496 S.
  • Masse: H23.7 cm x B16.5 cm x D4.2 cm 957 g
  • Gewicht: 957

Über den Autor


Warren Trest is a former United States Air Force senior historian. A combat reporter, writer, and air power historian in the Korean, Vietnam, and Cold Wars, he has published numerous articles and authored and co-authored more than 50 histories and studies. His book Air Commando One was nominated for the Bancroft Prize for distinguished works in American history. Other recent works include Wings of Denial, Nobody But the People, and Once a Fighter Pilot, and the hard-boiled Jake Falcon mystery novels Missing in Paradise and Requiem for a Flower Child.

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