In this Book
- The Secrets of the Hopewell Box: Stolen Elections, Southern Politics, and a City's Coming of Age
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
summary
"A sometimes eye-goggling history of political corruption in one corner of the postwar South. . . . [Squires'] grandfather was a sheriff's deputy who carried a gun and a clenched fist, a man . . . [who] was also, Squires relates, one of the muscle men behind a vicious cabal of power brokers headed by one Boss Crump. . . . That machine involved, for a time, much of Nashville's leading citizenry. It engineered elections, stole votes, organized lynch mobs, ran an illegal gambling empire, and in the 1950s, when it appeared that the traditional Democratic Party was going soft on civil rights, brokered the advent of Republicanism in one corner of the South."
—Kirkus Reviews
"His richly textured narrative charts the Nashville machine's rupture with the state's top political boss, Edward Crump of Memphis, and traces the sweeping reforms that shattered rural white control of the state legislature. Squires dramatically reenacts the downfall of Nashville lawyer Tommy Osborn, convicted of jury tampering in 1964 after defending Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. He follows Nashville's transformation into a crucible of the civil rights movement in this stirring chronicle of the South's coming-of-age."
—Publishers Weekly
—Kirkus Reviews
"His richly textured narrative charts the Nashville machine's rupture with the state's top political boss, Edward Crump of Memphis, and traces the sweeping reforms that shattered rural white control of the state legislature. Squires dramatically reenacts the downfall of Nashville lawyer Tommy Osborn, convicted of jury tampering in 1964 after defending Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. He follows Nashville's transformation into a crucible of the civil rights movement in this stirring chronicle of the South's coming-of-age."
—Publishers Weekly
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Part One: The Powder Puff Boys
- The Robinsons
- pp. 17-27
- An Undertaking
- pp. 27-36
- Part Two: Politics
- pp. 37-43
- Boss Crump's Gestapo
- pp. 43-50
- The Public Square
- pp. 51-59
- The Hopewell Box
- pp. 59-69
- Mink Slide
- pp. 69-82
- Part Three: The Colemere Club
- pp. 83-89
- Advancing the Art
- pp. 89-103
- Jake and Sillyman
- pp. 104-114
- Part Four: Booze and Bones
- pp. 115-120
- Stickmen and High Rollers
- pp. 121-136
- The Gorgeous Little Stooge
- pp. 136-144
- Part Five: Exile
- pp. 145-148
- Cootchie the Constable and Congress
- pp. 148-152
- Thugs and Jackasses
- pp. 153-158
- Part Six: Resurrection
- pp. 159-167
- Lessons from the Womb
- pp. 167-172
- The Unholy Trinity
- pp. 173-182
- Old Dog -- New Sandbox
- pp. 182-189
- A Little Evil
- pp. 189-197
- Part Seven: Camelot
- pp. 198-205
- A Jockey for Gallahadion
- pp. 205-210
- An Enemy Within
- pp. 210-236
- Part Eight: Heroes and Villains
- pp. 237-241
- Lessons on Making Sergeant
- pp. 241-252
- The Destruction of Chicken Man
- pp. 252-261
- The Last Hurrah
- pp. 261-264
- Part Nine: The Final Returns
- pp. 265-274
- Rewards of a Long Shot
- pp. 275-280
- Burying the Machine -- For Real
- pp. 281-284
- Postscript
- pp. 297-298
- Acknowledgments
- p. 299
- About the Author
- p. 310
Additional Information
ISBN
9780826519252
Related ISBN(s)
9780826519245
MARC Record
OCLC
842891627
Pages
326
Launched on MUSE
2013-06-27
Language
English
Open Access
No