Crossing the Aisle: How Bipartisanship Brought Tennessee to the 21st Century and Could Save America

by Keel Hunt (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2018

  $43.10

  The latter third of the 20th 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 policymaking-from better schools to improved highways to healthcare-in Tennessee flourished. This was the handiwork of moderate leaders of both parties who had a capacity to work together across the aisle.
  
  The Tennessee story, as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham observes in his foreword to this book, offers striking examples of bipartisan cooperation on many policy fronts - and a mode of governing that provides lessons for America in this current time of partisan stalemate.