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Nobody but the people : the life and times of Alabama's youngest governor
- Title
- Nobody but the people : the life and times of Alabama's youngest governor / Warren Trest.
- Author
- Trest, Warren A.
- Publication
- Montgomery : NewSouth Books, [2008], ©2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F330.3.P27 T74 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 496 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "John Patterson was thrust into Alabama politics by the brutal murder of his father, Attorney General-elect Albert L. Patterson, in June 1954. Albert Patterson had pledged to clean up vice-ridden Phenix City - "the wickedest city in America" - but was gunned down before he could take office." "The sensational murder led to the clean-up of Phenix City. The bereaved son, who stepped into the breach and took his father's place, was determined to keep it that way. The young crime-fighting attorney general gained a political following that propelled him into the governor's office in January 1959 - becoming the state's youngest elected governor and the only candidate to ever defeat George Wallace in a gubernatorial campaign." "As governor, Patterson led the state's resistance to federally ordered desegregation. He later expressed regret that he had not done more to help Alabama's black citizens in their struggle for equal rights. Under his administration the state made giant strides in public education, highway construction, industrial growth, law enforcement, government reform, increased old-age benefits, including the state's first program of medical care for the elderly, and other areas. The Alabama Journal cited the Patterson era as "one of the great periods in state history."" "In this first authorized biography of former Alabama Governor John Patterson, historian Warren Trest offers new insights into the life of a significant Southern politician whose career touched some of the key struggles of the twentieth-century civil rights movement."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-480) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781588382214
- 1588382214
- LCCN
- 2008003182
- 40015439633
- OCLC
- ocn192045483
- 192045483
- SCSB-5409451
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries