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Author : John Maginnis
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781455616275
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Hayride, The written by John Maginnis and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild and hilarious odyssey through Louisiana politics. In 1983 Edwin Edwards, one of the most investigated, reviled, and successful figures in American politics was at top form and wanted to be governor again. The politics of the Cajun governor, who ran the state for eight years with equal parts charm and savvy while leading a personal life as freewheeling and uninhibited as his politics, is exposed in all his glory.

Author : Stan Berenstain
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062188577
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Berenstain Bears and the Haunted Hayride written by Stan Berenstain and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmer Ben's family farm is in trouble, but luckily, he has some great friends in the Berenstain Bear cubs. Sister, Brother, and their friends decide to hold a Halloween Festival to raise money for Farmer Ben, so Farmer Ben doesn't have to sell his farm to a Theme Park developer. Unfortunately, the cubs don't plan on some unexpected visitors showing up—ghosts! Ben's spooky ancestors come back to the farm to join in on the festivities . . . but will their presence frighten the festival guests away and foil the cubs' plan. This chapter book story is the perfect next step for Berenstain Bears fans!

Author : Waldenbooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780681305830
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Hayride written by Waldenbooks and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tracey E. W. Laird
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195167511
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Hayride written by Tracey E. W. Laird and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an examination of northwest Louisiana's unique musical milieu, home to the Louisiana Hayride, a radio barn dance between 1948 and 1960. The region's history, geography, race relations, media, and other forces set the stage for the Hayride's critical role in both country music and rock-and-roll.

Author : Joey Kent
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781455624454
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cradle of the Stars written by Joey Kent and published by Pelican Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This image-laden, entertaining chronology of the Louisiana Hayride radio and stage show is written by the historian and archivist for the venue. The Hayride is credited with introducing the world to Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, George Jones, and so many others. The author's father ran the show in the 1970s and 1980s.

Author : Robert Mann
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807176982
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Party Is Over written by Robert Mann and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the Louisiana political scene has been a source of interest and intrigue for scholars and casual observers alike. In recent years, the state’s political, economic, and environmental challenges have drawn sustained attention from regional and national media. Observers have typically focused on Louisiana’s distinctive political culture, including jungle primaries, colorful candidates, and tolerance for scandal. However, recent shifts have eroded the state’s unique political character, aligning it with national political trends of partisan realignment, political polarization, and outside influence in state and local elections. The Party Is Over brings together top scholars, journalists, and policy analysts to investigate these recent shifts in institutions, politics, and policy and situate them in the context of national politics. Both accessible and thorough, the volume offers an informed and reliable foundation for those new to Louisiana’s political culture and for long-time observers seeking new insights into recent developments. Contributors recognize the challenges posed by the new politics and point toward opportunities to leverage the state’s cultural and economic strengths to build a better Louisiana.

Author : Brian Fairbanks
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826505023
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wizards written by Brian Fairbanks and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A corrupt old Democrat. A surging Republican populist. The Democrat, hounded by corruption allegations; the Republican, dogged by business failures and ties to white supremacists. The Republican turned out thousands of screaming supporters for speeches blaming illegal immigrants and crime on the Democrats, and the Democrat plummeted in the polls. Sound familiar? The '91 Louisiana Governor's race was supposed to be forgettable. But when former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke shocked the nation by ousting incumbent Republican Governor Buddy Roemer in the primary, the world took notice. Democrat Edwin Edwards, a former three-term governor and two-time corruption defendant, was left alone to face Duke in the general election—and he was going to lose. Then a little-known state committeewoman stepped in with evidence of Duke's nefarious past. Could her evidence be enough to sway the minds of fired-up voters, or would Louisiana welcome a far-right radical into the highest office in the state? Journalist Brian Fairbanks explores how the final showdown between Duke and Edwards in November 1991 led to a major shift in our national politics, as well as the rise of the radical right and white supremacist groups, and how history repeated itself in the 2016 presidential election. The story of these political "wizards," almost forgotten by history, remains eerily prescient and disturbingly relevant, and a compulsive page-turner.

Author : Bill C. Malone
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469616661
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture written by Bill C. Malone and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk genres, bluegrass, country, jazz, gospel, rock, blues, and southern hip-hop. This much-anticipated volume in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates an essential element of southern life and makes available for the first time a stand-alone reference to the music and music makers of the American South. With nearly double the number of entries devoted to music in the original Encyclopedia, this volume includes 30 thematic essays, covering topics such as ragtime, zydeco, folk music festivals, minstrelsy, rockabilly, white and black gospel traditions, and southern rock. And it features 174 topical and biographical entries, focusing on artists and musical outlets. From Mahalia Jackson to R.E.M., from Doc Watson to OutKast, this volume considers a diverse array of topics, drawing on the best historical and contemporary scholarship on southern music. It is a book for all southerners and for all serious music lovers, wherever they live.

Author : Michael L. Kurtz
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807154083
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earl K. Long written by Michael L. Kurtz and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1991-12-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a region famous for its flamboyant politicians, Earl K. Long was one of the most flamboyant of them all. This first full-scale biography of the former Louisiana governor explores his controversial life-style and his strong family ties, his raw humor and his political savvy, his abuse of power and his accomplishments in the areas of civil rights and public services. Michael L. Kurtz and Morgan D. Peoples provide new information from recently declassified FBI files concerning Earl's ties with organized crime figures, give the first comprehensive account of his stays in mental institutions in 1959, and offer factual information about his notorious relationship with the stripper Blaze Star. Based on more than two decades of research in a variety of sources, this important biography fills a serious gap in the history of modern Louisiana politics.

Author : Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prison Capital written by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through extensive research, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs illuminates how policy makers enlarged Louisiana's carceral infrastructures with new prisons and jail expansions alongside the bulking up of police and prosecutorial power. At the same time, these infrastructures were the products of multiscalar crises: the swings of global oil capitalism, liberal federal court and policy interventions, the rise of neoliberal governance and law-and-order austerity, and racist and patriarchal moral panics surrounding "crime." However, these crises have also created fertile space for anticarceral social movements. From incarcerated people filing conditions of confinement lawsuits and Angola activists challenging life without parole to grassroots organizers struggling to shrink the New Orleans jail following Hurricane Katrina and LGBTQ youth of color organizing against police sexual violence, grassroots movements stretch us toward new geographies of freedom in the lineage of abolition democracy. Understanding Louisiana's carceral crisis extends our understanding of the interplay between the crises of mass criminalization and racial capitalism while highlighting the conditions of possibility for dismantling carceral power in all its forms.