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Ernest Vandiver: Governor of Georgia
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by Harold P. Henderson
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 352 pages
Published by: University of Georgia Press October 20, 2000
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0820322237
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0820322230
Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Book Description
Ernest Vandiver was elected governor of the state of Georgia in 1958 on a platform of fiscal conservatism and steadfast resistance to desegregation. Having vowed to defend Georgia's segregated social system at all costs, Vandiver nevertheless concluded that the state could not close its schools to avoid desegregation. Because of his decision to reject the path taken by George Wallace in Alabama and Orval Fabus in Arkansas and to save public education in the state by complying with federal court mandates, Vandiver was denounced by the state's more vocal proponents of segregation.
Using primary sources and extensive interviews with the governor and his contemporaries, Henderson tells the full story of Vandiver's life as a transitional figure in the political history of the state. He portrays Vandiver as a man cast by circumstances into presiding over a crisis greater than any Georgia governor had faced since the Civil War. Henderson also notes some of Vandiver's less recognized accomplishments, including the involvement of state government in furthering tourism, foreign investment, and industry. Ernest Vandiver is here recognized for his significant achievements guiding the state through a period of rapid transformation.
About The Author
Harold Paulk Henderson is a professor of political science at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, author of The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall (Georgia 1991), and coeditor of Georgia Governors in an Age of Change (Georgia 1988).
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