A wild ride through Louisiana's tumultuous political landscape. They called it the Race from Hell: Edwin Edwards vs. David Duke vs. Buddy Roemer. For Louisiana voter, it was like watching a train wreck, except they were along for the ride. This exposé provides a clever glimpse behind the scenes of the Louisiana governor's race that had the whole world watching. The current national political phenomena of racial alienation, voter rage, sex-life inspections, and third-party challengers exploded first in Louisiana before rocking the American scene and revealing itself in explicit and colorful details.
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JOHN MAGINNIS is a syndicated political columnist and the editor and publisher of Louisiana Political Review. He is a frequent commentator in the national media.
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Another Good Political Journal!,
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This book was another good description of a Louisiana Governor's election. The previous book "The Last Hayride" told of Edwin Edwards return to the governorship of Louisiana. After being elected to a third term as governor Edwards was indicted. The scandal that followed caused Edwards to be unseated. Four years later, in 1991, Edwards was able to make a comeback. He wound up in a runoff with the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan,David Duke. You are led on a campaign path by the author. This book describes the processes that finally led to another political comeback for Edwin Edwards. This was a very colorful and well written book that describes Louisiana politics.
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An engrossing political journey that reads like a dream.,
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A companion piece to Maginnis' excellent "Last Hayride," this book covers the 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial campaign, which pitted former Klansman David Duke against frequent indictee (and three term governor) Edwin Edwards. Maginnis writes beautifully, and readers will feel like they are in Louisiana and on the trail with the candidates (all of them; Maginnis also covers the others races of that election). Highly reccomended to anyone interested in politics, power, or personality.
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Fascinating - and Scary,
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With Cross to Bear John Maginnis writes again about Louisiana politics - a subject that he previously covered in The Last Hayride. In Cross to Bear, Maginiss focuses on the 1991 election for Governor of Louisiana. Cross to Bear is a fascinating look at politics that will not disappoint.
The most-entertaining aspects of Cross to Bear are the portraits of the three main candidates. You have: 1) Edwin Edwards, the calculating crook who had been governor in three previous terms, 2) Buddy Roemer, the incumbent governor (in 1991) who had unseated Edwards in 1987, and 3) David Duke, the Klansman and Nazi who somehow had struck a chord with Louisiana's white, rural voters. You also learn something about Louisiana. Maginnis details the regional differences; he particularly focuses on the difference in New Orleans and rest of Louisiana. The electoral process in Louisiana is complex and you get a good idea of just what it takes to get elected. While Cross to Bear is great reading, I have a few small complaints. Maginnis generally presents the facts without too much editorializing; but there were times when I thought that he ventured too close to advocacy. More importantly, the end of the book loses some of the momentum Maginnis builds in the early sections; it seems that the runoff just wasn't as interesting as the events preceding it. Finally, Maginnis made the strange decision to include quite a bit of material on the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart's troubles in the late 1980s and early 1990s; the Swaggart material is interesting, but it was never clear why it belonged in Cross to Bear. On the whole, however, Cross to Bear is a great book that won't disappoint fans of politics.
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