xii, 436 pages : 24 cm

From the first intrepid and rugged pioneers who struggled over the Appalachians to settle the frontier to today's native-son vice president, Tennesseans have played a meaningful and enriching role in shaping United States politics. A political study of Tennessee is a study of America's relationship with the state's native inhabitants, Jacksonian democracy, the Civil War and Reconstruction, race relations and civil rights, the formation of the Whig and Democratic Parties, women's suffrage, science versus religion, Prohibition, the New Deal and TVA, and other significant events and issues that influenced the course of the nation's political and cultural history. -- book jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-418) and index

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