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    The Secrets of the Hopewell Box: Stolen Elections, Southern Politics, and a City's Coming of Age
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    The Secrets of the Hopewell Box: Stolen Elections, Southern Politics, and a City's Coming of Age
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    The Secrets of the Hopewell Box: Stolen Elections, Southern Politics, and a City's Coming of Age
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    The Secrets of the Hopewell Box: Stolen Elections, Southern Politics, and a City's Coming of Age

    By James D. Squires

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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

    "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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVanderbilt University Press
    Release dateMar 15, 2013
    ISBN9780826519252
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    The Secrets of the Hopewell Box: Stolen Elections, Southern Politics, and a City's Coming of Age
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    James D. Squires

    James D. Squires began his newspaper career at the Nashville Tennessean in 1962, and later served as Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune and as editor of the Orlando Sentinel and the Chicago Tribune. In 1992 he served as media adviser for Ross Perot's presidential campaign. His next book is entitled Mink Slide.

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