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Ernest Vandiver, Governor of Georgia
Contributor(s): Henderson, Harold Paulk (Author)
ISBN: 0820330604     ISBN-13: 9780820330600
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
OUR PRICE:   $35.10  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: June 2008
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Political
- Political Science | American Government - State
- History | United States - 20th Century
Dewey: 975.804
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.04 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - South
- Chronological Period - 1950-1999
- Geographic Orientation - Georgia
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
 
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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 Faubus in Arkansas and to protect 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 faced by a Georgia governor 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 in guiding the state through a period of rapid transformation.


Contributor Bio(s): Henderson, Harold Paulk: - HAROLD PAULK HENDERSON is a professor emeritus of political science at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, author of The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall (Georgia), and coeditor of Georgia Governors in an Age of Change (Georgia).