9781945624209-1945624205-The Education of Ernie Dumas: Chronicles of the Arkansas Political Mind

The Education of Ernie Dumas: Chronicles of the Arkansas Political Mind

ISBN-13: 9781945624209
ISBN-10: 1945624205
Edition: 1
Author: Ernest Dumas
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Format: Hardcover 280 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781945624209
ISBN-10: 1945624205
Edition: 1
Author: Ernest Dumas
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Format: Hardcover 280 pages

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The Education of Ernie Dumas: Chronicles of the Arkansas Political Mind (ISBN-13: 9781945624209 and ISBN-10: 1945624205), written by authors Ernest Dumas, was published by Butler Center for Arkansas Studies in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other United States (Historical) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Education of Ernie Dumas: Chronicles of the Arkansas Political Mind (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.

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Like The Education of Henry Adams, the early twentieth-century classic from which this book derives its name, Adams described the ascent, or descent, of a postwar social and political order into something that a few people called modernity. But Dumas follows this evolution, not in the United States as Adams did, but in insular Arkansas.

Beginning with the defeat of Governor Francis Cherry by the son of a hillbilly socialist at the end of the Joe McCarthy era, Dumas traces the development of a modernist political cast that eventually produced Arkansas’s first president of the United States. It follows the seed from 1978 that would germinate into the second impeachment of an American president.

Dumas has written for newspapers and about politics for sixty-three years, since 1954, the year that the stolid Cherry fell to Orval Eugene Faubus. The book is a political memoir that describes not only his education in the ways of politicians but the politicians’ own education and miseducation in how you win voters and then how you get things done.

It is mostly a collection of untold stories, often deeply personal, that reveal the inner struggles and sometimes the tribulations of the state’s leaders—Cherry, Faubus, Winthrop Rockefeller, Dale Bumpers, David Pryor, John McClellan, J. William Fulbright, Bill Clinton, Jim Guy Tucker, and others.

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