| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Looking for a Rainbow in Phenix City; 2. From El Guettar to the University; 3. Praying the Devil Out of Town; 4. The RBA Challenges the Gangsters; 5. Albert Patterson Beats the Mob; 6. Assassins Make a Politician of John Patterson; 7. Trying His Father's Murderers; 8. Bankrupting the Loan Sharks; 9. Playing Cops and Robbers with the Folsomites; 10. Patterson Sets His Sights on Integration; 11. The Montgomery Bus Boycott Changes Alabama Forever; 12. Nobody but the People; 13. Alabama Elects a Boy Governor; 14. Trying to Build a "Better Alabama." |
| Summary |
Allowed by the Democratic Party to take his father's place and to complete the elder's goal of cleaning up corruption in his hometown of Phenix City, John Patterson made a young, attractive, and sympathetic candidate. This book details his efforts to clean up his hometown and oppose corruption in the administration of Governor Big Jim Folsom |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-250) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Patterson, John, 1921 September 27-2021
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| SUBJECT |
Patterson, John, 1921 September 27-2021 fast |
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Governors -- Alabama -- Biography
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Lawyers -- Alabama -- Biography
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Judges -- Alabama -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Governors
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Judges
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Lawyers
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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Alabama -- Politics and government -- 1951- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003100
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Alabama -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Phenix City (Ala.) -- History -- 20th century
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Alabama -- Biography
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Alabama
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Alabama -- Phenix City
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Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007042108 |
| ISBN |
9780817380564 |
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0817380566 |
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