Thursday, February 22, 2007
[Book Review] MAYOR CRUMP DON'T LIKE IT: MACHINE POLITICS IN MEMPHIS by G. Wayne Dowdy
Nonfiction/Memphis
Heather Lawson reviews MAYOR CRUMP DON'T LIKE IT: MACHINE POLITICS IN MEMPHIS by G. Wayne Dowdy (University Press of Mississippi, 2006)
Heather Lawson reviews MAYOR CRUMP DON'T LIKE IT: MACHINE POLITICS IN MEMPHIS by G. Wayne Dowdy (University Press of Mississippi, 2006)
There is little that can top sitting down and reading a well-thought-out biography on a extraordinary individual. For those that agree with this statement, check out G. Wayne Dowdy’s Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis.
Based on Crump’s personal papers located in the Memphis Room of the Memphis Public Library, Dowdy provides the reader with fascinating information on Crump’s creation of a coalition between African American voters and whites, and his eventual move from the Democratic Party to the States Rights Party. With a clear writing style, Dowdy also focuses on the many details surrounding the transformation of Memphis during the Crump years.
G. Wayne Dowdy is a senior librarian and archivist at the Memphis Public Library and Information Center. His work has appeared in the Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, Journal of Negro History, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, and other publications.
Based on Crump’s personal papers located in the Memphis Room of the Memphis Public Library, Dowdy provides the reader with fascinating information on Crump’s creation of a coalition between African American voters and whites, and his eventual move from the Democratic Party to the States Rights Party. With a clear writing style, Dowdy also focuses on the many details surrounding the transformation of Memphis during the Crump years.
G. Wayne Dowdy is a senior librarian and archivist at the Memphis Public Library and Information Center. His work has appeared in the Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, Journal of Negro History, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, and other publications.
Heather Lawson, Public Services
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