After Wallace: The 1986 Contest for Governor and Political Change in Alabama

by James Glen Stovall and Patrick R. Cotter

Book Overview

All Alabama elections are colorful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangeness

With the retirement of an aging and ill George Wallace, both the issues and candidates contending for the office were able to set the course of Alabama politics for generations to follow. Whereas the Wallace regimes were particular to Alabama, and the gubernatorial campaign was conducted in a partial vacuum with his absence,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817316604
• ISBN13: 9780817316600
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"