Bøger af Keel Hunt

To know the story of the life and times of Judge Gilbert Merritt is to understand modern U.S. politics of the mid to late 20th century--how it came to be, and how it worked-particularly in the American South.

The first book to tell Ingram's fascinating story of transforming book publishing around the world.Includes more than 70 interviews with insiders and book-industry thought-leaders.Details Ingram's extensive portfolio of service and infrastructure businesses that play a key role in the world of publishing.Ideal for audiences interested in learning more about the history of publishing and in innovative business growth strategies.Collection of untold, extraordinary, and previously privately kept stories uncover how one of the world's most influential media businesses went from a little-known Nashville-based company to grow to play a pivotal role in transforming book publishing around the world.

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 policymakingfrom better schools to improved highways and health careflourished in Tennessee. This was the work of moderate leaders from both parties who had a capacity to work together "e;across the aisle."e;The Tennessee story, as the Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jon Meacham observes in his foreword to this book, offers striking examples of bipartisan cooperation on many policy frontsand 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.

Coup is the behind-the-scenes story of an abrupt political transition, unprecedented in U.S. history. Based on 163 interviews, Hunt describes how collaborators came together from opposite sides of the political aisle and, in an extraordinary few hours, reached agreement that the corruption and madness of the sitting Governor of Tennessee, Ray Blanton, must be stopped. The sudden transfer of power that caught Blanton unawares was deemed necessary because of what one FBI agent called "e;the state's most heinous political crime in half a century"e;--a scheme of selling pardons for cash.On January 17, 1979, driven by new information that some of the worst criminals in the state's penitentiaries were about to be released (and fears that James Earl Ray might be one of them), a small bipartisan group chose to take charge. Senior Democratic leaders, friends of the sitting governor, together with the Republican governor-elect Lamar Alexander (now U.S. Senator from Tennessee), agreed to oust Blanton from office before another night fell. It was a maneuver unique in American political history.From the foreword by John L. Seigenthaler: "e;The individual stories of those government officials involved in the coup--each account unique, but all of them intersecting--were scattered like disconnected pieces of a jigsaw puzzle on the table of history until the author conceived this book. Perhaps because it happened so quickly, and without major disagreement, protest, or dissent, this truly historic moment has been buried in the public mind. In unearthing the drama in gripping detail, Keel Hunt assures that the 'dark day' will be remembered as a bright one in which conflicted politicians came together in the public interest."e;