The Prince Of Tennessee

Author : David Maraniss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743214455
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prince Of Tennessee written by David Maraniss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Prince of Tennessee, David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima explore in rich detail the forces that have shaped Al Gore's life, and the ways that his past offers clues to what kind of president he would be. The Gore who comes to life in these pages is an intelligent and competent man, struggling with self-doubt and insecurity that explain his bureaucratic obsession with fact and his tendency to exaggerate his accomplishments. Gore's path to power, at first glance, seems straight and narrow. While Bill Clinton's rise is a story of obstacles overcome, Gore's ascendance seems the opposite: the son of political aristocracy reared by loving and demanding parents who groomed him as a princeling to reach the top. But his life was shaped by as much duality as Clinton's. As a child Gore was shuffled back and forth from political Washington to rural Tennessee, his ancestral homeland. The contrast reflects a larger tension between what others expected of Gore and what he wanted to do. Here was the quintessential good son whom his classmates teased as the wooden Apollo. He would occasionally try to rebel but inevitably be yanked back by the burden of expectations and his own insecurity. His first ambition was to be a novelist, but his friends at Harvard saw him as a royal figure for whom a political career was unavoidable. He opposed the war in Vietnam, yet enlisted in the army anyway, out of an obligation to shield his father, the antiwar senator. When he eventually turned to politics Gore brought with him competing impulses: the cautious political moderate with an occasional tendency toward uncommon boldness, the awkward public figure who in private can be a raucous storyteller, the loyal son and vice president who wants to be considered on his own terms, the reluctant politician who burns with a desire to fulfill his parents' dream and become president.

Author : Kyle Longley
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807153486
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Senator Albert Gore, Sr. written by Kyle Longley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-10-25 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best remembered as the father of Vice President Al Gore, Albert Gore, Sr., worked tirelessly in politics himself, a Democratic congressman and senator from 1939 to 1971 and a representative of southern liberalism and American reformism. In the first comprehensive biography of Gore, Kyle Longley has produced an incisive portrait of a significant American political leader and an arresting narrative of the shaping of a southern and American political tradition. His research includes archival sources from across the country as well as interviews with Gore's colleagues, friends, and family. Longley describes how the native of Possum Hollow, Tennessee, became known during his political career as a maverick, a man who, according to one journalist, would "rock almost anybody's boat." For his actions, Gore often paid a heavy price, personally and professionally. Overshadowed by others in Congress such as Lyndon Johnson, J. William Fulbright, Richard Russell, and Barry Goldwater, Gore nonetheless played a major role on the important issues of taxes, the Interstate Highway system, civil rights, nuclear power and arms control, and the Vietnam War. Longley situates Gore as part of a generation of politicians who matured on the messages of William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt. In the South, Gore belonged to a staunch group of liberals who battled traditional conservative forces, often within their own party. He and others such as Estes Kefauver, Frank Porter Graham, and Ralph Yarborough set the stage for subsequent generations, including that of Jimmy Carter and Jim Sasser, and later Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jr., and John Edwards. From his career shines one encapsulating moment in 1952: squared off on the floor of the Senate against Strom Thurmond, who wanted Gore to sign the "Southern Manifesto" declaring southern resistance to desegregation, Gore responded simply, classically, "Hell no."

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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563117576
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hardeman County, Tennessee written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given in memory of Frances Harriett James Kimbrough by F.G. Middlebrook.

Author : Amy Franklin-Willis
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802194842
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Saints of Tennessee written by Amy Franklin-Willis and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A riveting, hardscrabble book on the rough, hardscrabble south,” and the fault lines that can divide, test, and heal a family (Pat Conroy). This “powerful . . . Southern novel that stands with genre classics like The Prince of Tides and Bastard Out of Carolina” is driven by the soulful voices of Ezekiel Cooper and his mother, Lillian. Journeying across four decades, it follows Zeke’s evolution from anointed son in a Tennessee working-class family, to honorable sibling to unhinged middle-aged man (Bookpage). After Zeke loses his twin brother in a drowning and his wife to divorce, only ghosts remain in his hometown of Clayton. To escape his pain, Zeke puts his two treasured possessions—a childhood copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and his brother’s old dog—into his truck, and heads east. What he leaves behind are his young daughters and his estranged mother, stricken by guilt over old sins as she embraces the hope that her family isn’t beyond repair. What lies ahead is refuge with his sympathetic cousins in Virginia horse country, a promising romance, and unforeseen new challenges that lead Zeke to a crossroads. Now he must decide the fate of his family—either by clinging to the way life was or moving toward what life might be. With abundant charm, warmth, and authority, Amy Franklin Willis’s “honest prose rises from the heart” in this moving consideration of the ways grief can

Author : Robert Wayne Layton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prince and Davis of Tennessee written by Robert Wayne Layton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is volume 6 of the series: The Layton family of Lewis County, Washington, and associated lines.

Author : Reid Smith
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455608102
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Majestic Middle Tennessee written by Reid Smith and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The happy events, the human asides, historic happenings, and family legends . . . make its pages delightful to read. Smith writes warmly and with an easy appreciative wit." -The Tennesseean Central Tennessee is a fascinating and historic area. Home to Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk, it was a major battleground during the Civil War. Majestic Middle Tennessee looks at ninety-five glorious antebellum homes in the central Tennessee region. Featured here are the sumptuous Rattle and Snap, the crown prince of them all; Mulberry Hill, where a Yankee stranger was mysteriously shot to death; and Foxview, home to children and cousins by the dozens. Hundreds of photographs and fascinating text detail the exciting and tragic history of each home.

Author : American Jersey Cattle Club
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herd Register written by American Jersey Cattle Club and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Cole Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 1540-1800 written by Samuel Cole Williams and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tennessee. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tennessee Reports : Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Highest Courts of Law and Equity of the State of Tennessee written by Tennessee. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tennessee. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee written by Tennessee. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: