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Southern Politics in State and Nation by Valdimer Orlando Key, Alexander Heard is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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More than thirty years after its original publication, V. O. Key's classic remains the most influential book on its subject. Its author, one of the nation's most astute observers, drew on more than five hundred interviews with Southerners to illuminate the political process in the South and in the nation. Key's book explains party alignments within states, internal factional competition, and the influence of the South upon Washington. It also probes the nature of the electorate, voting restrictions, and political operating procedures. This reprint of the original edition includes a new introduction by Alexander Heard and a profile of the author by William C. Havard. "A monumental accomplishment in the field of political investigation." --Hodding Carter, New York Times "The raw truth of southern political behavior." --C. Vann Woodward, Yale Review "[This book] should be on the 'must' list of any student of American politics." --Ralph J. Bunche V.O. Key (1908-1963) taught political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at Johns Hopkins, Yale, and Harvard universities. He was president of the American Political Science Association and author of numerous books, incl

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Author
Valdimer Orlando Key, Alexander Heard
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press; Univ of Tennessee Pr
Published
1984
Language
EN
ISBN
9780870494345
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Political Science, History, Humanities
Rating
4.36 / 5 (56 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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