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

    By Keel Hunt

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    The latter third of the twentieth 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 and health care—flourished in Tennessee. This was the work of moderate leaders from 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 frustrating era of partisan stalemate.

    For more on Crossing the Aisle and author Keel Hunt, visit KeelHunt.com.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVanderbilt University Press
    Release dateNov 6, 2018
    ISBN9780826522412
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    Keel Hunt

    Keel Hunt is the author of two books on Tennessee political history and has been a columnist for the USA Today Tennessee network since 2013. In his early career, he was a journalist and Washington correspondent. He has been an adviser to the Ingram family and Ingram businesses since 1995 and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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