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Article: Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. By Jere Nash and Andy Taggart. Foreword by John Grisham. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. Pp. xviii, 403. $32.00, ISBN 978-1-57806-907-1.)
Jere Nash and Andy Taggart's study of Mississippi politics is part of a growing literature on recent history, especially post-civil rights era studies. The book fits into the latter model since race, not surprisingly, was and still is a major theme of Mississippi politics. The book's central theme is that conflict, whether over race, cultural issues, urban-rural divisions, or political partisanship, marked Mississippi politics. The authors ably ...