Who Runs Georgia?
In 1947 the authors, then young veterans of World War II, were commissioned by a committee of Georgia liberals and political reformers to travel about the state interviewing politicians, lobbyists, newspaper publishers, and civic leaders in each of Georgia's 159 counties. They were to gather information relevant to the location and exercise of political power in Georgia. This volume consists of the authors' relatively brief report (approximately 85 pages) to their sponsoring committee and summarizes 64 of the dozens of interviews they conducted. The book provides a period snapshot of Georgia politics when a "county unit system" assured rural political dominance and when crude race baiting by politicians of the Talmadge political faction was common. State politics would soon be transformed by federal court reapportionment decisions, urbanization, and the Civil Rights movement. For academic collections on Southern politics and history and for public libraries with patrons interested in the same subject.?Thomas H. Ferrell, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, LafayetteCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.