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Politics and Government

Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments of 2002 [telecommunications; appropriations]. 2002. U.S. Public Law 107-149. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O. 8 pp.

Text version: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS19531.

PDF version: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS19532.

Atkins, Jonathan M. 1997. Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 371 pp.

Baber, Bob Henry. 1997. “My Exhilerating [sic], Self-Destructive, and Near-Criminal Candidacy for the Governorship of West Virginia” [run for 1996 Democratic primary]. Appalachian Journal 24 (Summer): 368-419.

Baldwin, Fred. 1995. "Lighting Up Kentucky's Fifth." Appalachia 27 (Summer): 4-11.

Barkey, Fred. 1998. “Fritz Merrick: Parkersburg Rebel With a Cause” [1905-1913; left-wing Socialist organizer]. West VirginiaHistory 57: 77-94.

Bartlett, Larry. 1998. “First-Class: Bill Buckley of the Parkersburg Post Office” [1950s]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Fall): 42-45.

Bergeron, Paul H., Stephen V. Ash, and Jeanette Keith. 1999. Tennesseans and Their History [frontier to present]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 357 pp.

Beyond Our Borders [9/11; global perspectives]. 2002. Special issue, Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 19 (Spring): 1-44.

Bolin, James Duane. 2000. Bossism and Reform in a Southern City: Lexington, Kentucky, 1880-1940. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 202 pp.

Bowen, Michael. 2001. “Communism vs. Republicanism: B. Carroll Reece and the Congressional Elections of 1946.” Journal of East Tennessee History 73: 39-52.

Brashear, Craig. 1997. “The Market Revolution and Party Preference in East Tennessee: Spatial Patterns of Partisanship in the 1840 Presidential Election.” Appalachian Journal 25 (Fall): 8-29.

Brisbin, Richard A. Jr., Robert Jay Dilger, Allan S. Hammock, and Christopher Z. Mooney. 1996. West VirginiaPolitics & Government. Politics and Governments of the American States. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 217 pp.

Chafin, Raymond, and Topper Sherwood. 1994. Just Good Politics:  The Life of Raymond Chafin, Appalachian Boss. Pittsburgh:   University of Pittsburgh Press. 224 pp.

Clagg, Sam. 2002 [1975]. West VirginiaHistorical Almanac and Gazetteer. Huntington, W.Va.: John Deaver Drinko Academy, Marshall University; Parsons, W.Va.: McClain Printing Company. 240 pp. Originally self-published.

Clines, Francis X. 2002. “How Do West Virginians Spell Pork? It’s B-Y-R-D.” New York Times, 4 May, 1(A).

Clines, Francis X. 2002. “Judge Takes On the White House on Mountaintop Mining” [Charles Haden, W.Va.]. New York Times, 19 May, 18(sec. 1).

Colignon, Richard A. 1997. Power Plays: Critical Events in the Institutionalization of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Albany: State University of New York. 367 pp.

Coulter, E. Merton. 1999 [1937, 1971]. William G. Brownlow: Fighting Parson of the Southern Highlands [1805-1877; east Tenn.]. Reprint, with a new introduction by Stephen V. Ash. Appalachian Echoes series. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 456 pp.

Crookshanks, Ben. 1999. “Second to None: Eighty Years of the West Virginia State Police” [created 1919]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Spring): 32-37. Appended articles, “A Boy’s dream,” by C. C. Stewart, 38-42, and “‘All In a Day’s Work’: Former State Trooper William R. Seal” [89-years-old; interview], by Ben Crookshanks, 43-45.

Davis, F. Keith. 2003. West VirginiaTough Boys: Vote Buying, Fist Fighting, and a President Named JFK [Logan Co., 1960]. Introduction by Lieutenant Governor and Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin. Chapmanville, W.Va.: Woodland Press. 252 pp.

Epstein, Robin. 1999. Citizen Power: Stories of America’s New Civic Spirit [rural Ky.; grassroots leadership]. Lexington, Ky.: Democracy Resource Center. 147 pp.

Fisher, Stephen L. 2001 [1999]. “The Grass Roots Speak Back” [community activism history]. In Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes, eds. D. Billings, G. Norman, and K. Ledford, 203-214. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Originally published as Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes.

Fleming, Joe W. 1999. “John Sweeney, ARC’s First Federal Co-Chairman” [d. 1998; tribute]. Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 32 (January-April): 16-17.

Forester, Candi Dahl. 1996. “Zell Miller: From the Mountains to the Mansion” [ Ga. governor; oral history interview]. Foxfire Magazine 30 (Fall/Winter): 153-160.

Gage, Jeanne. 1995. " Kentucky's Local Governments Tackle Ethics Reform." Appalachian Heritage 23 (Winter): 36-43.

Gatrell, Jay D., and Lou Fintor. 1998. “Spatial Niches, Policy Subsystems, and Agenda Setting: The Case of the ARC” [1949-1990]. Political Geography 17 (September): 883-897.

Golumbic, Lars C. 1996. "Who Shall Dictate the Law?: Political Wrangling Between 'Whig' Lawyers and Backcountry Farms in Revolutionary Era North Carolina." North CarolinaHistorical Review 73 (January): 56-82.

Gorman, Michael J. 2000. “‘Our Politicians Have Enslaved Us’: Power and Politics in Frederick County, Virginia” [1850s]. In After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900, eds. K. Koons and W. Hofstra, 274-286. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Hechler, Ken. Interview by John Lilly. 2000. “Ken Hechler on JFK” [W.Va. Secretary of State; 1960 primary election]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Fall): 20-21.

Holyman, Rod. 1998. “The Hard Road Home: Governor William Casey Marland” [1953-1957]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Fall): 12-23.

Irwin, Ned. 1997. “The Lost Papers of the ‘ Lost State of Franklin’” [1784-1788; Tenn.’s early attempt to separate from N.C.]. Journal of East Tennessee History 69: 84-96.

Irwin, Ned. 1998. “‘The Lost State of Franklin’: Sources for Research and Study” [1784-1789; present-day Tenn.]. Bulletin of Bibliography 55 (March): 35-41.

Jeffrey, Thomas E. 1997. “An Unclean Vessel: Thomas Lanier Clingman and the “Railroad Ring” [ Western North Carolina Railroad]. North Carolina Historical Review 74 (October): 389-431.

Jeffrey, Thomas E. 1998. Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains [1812-1897; N.C. Congressman; biography]. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 449 pp.

Kastor, Peter J. 1997. “‘Equitable Rights and Privileges’: The Divided Loyalties in Washington County, Virginia, during the Franklin Separatist Crisis.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 105 (Spring): 193-226.

Laing, Craig R. 1999. “Spatial Investment Strategies of Federal Assistance to Appalachia” [Appalachian Regional Commission, 1960s to present; cartographic analysis]. Southeastern Geographer 39 (May): 99-113.

Link, William A. 2003. Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Civil War America series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 387 pp.

Macaulay, Alexander S., Jr. 1998. “Growing Pains: The Immortal Thirteen, the Destructive Twelve, and the Emergence of Two-Party Politics in Antebellum Tennessee” [1830s-1840s]. Journal of East Tennessee History 70: 1-33.

McKinney , Gordon B. 1998 [1978]. Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community. Appalachian Echoes. Reprint. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 320 pp. Originally published, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

McKinney, Gordon B. 2004. Zeb Vance: North Carolina’s Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader [1830-1894]. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 477 pp.

Mencken, F. Carson. 1999. “A Comparative Analysis of Federal Spending in Appalachia” [refutes pork barrel spending accusations]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 5 (Fall): 247-255.

Mullins, Brian. 1998. “Thurl Henderson: Delivering the Mail in Roane County” [1950s]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Fall): 48-49.

Nesbitt, J. Todd, and Daniel Weiner. 2001. “Conflicting Environmental Imaginaries and the Politics of Nature in Central Appalachia.” Geoforum 32 (August): 333-349.

O’Keefe, Joseph G., and Virginia Nowland. 1998. “Suffrage Crusade” [1919-1920]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Fall): 24-26.

O’Neill, Karen M. 2002. “Why the TVA Remains Unique: Interest Groups and the Defeat of New Deal River Planning.” Rural Sociology 67 (June): 163-182.

Phillips, Jo Boggess. 1998. “‘I Greatly Appreciate Your Courage’: West Virginia’s Women Legislators” [1922-1996]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Fall): 27-31.

Phillips, Jo Boggess. 1998. “A Rose Among the Thorns: Lawmaker Jackie Withrow” [female legislator; 1960s-1970s]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Fall): 32-35.

Platania, Joseph. 1999. “West Virginia’s State Stores: A Legacy of Prohibition” [1935-1990]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Spring): 46-47.

Poole, W. Scott. 2003. Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 263 pp.

Purcell, Aaron D. 1998. “Power to the People: David Lilienthal Founds TVA’s Electric Power Policy, 1933.” Journal of East Tennessee History 70: 90-108.

Purcell, Aaron D. 1998. Undermining the TVA: George Berry, David Lilienthal, and Arthur Morgan [TVA Board members’ divisive split on whether to award Berry compensation for his flooded marble quarries]. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 57 (Fall): 168-189.

Purcell, Aaron D. 2002. “Struggle Within, Struggle Without: The TEPCO Case and the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1936-1939.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 61 (Fall): 194-210.

Purcell, Aaron D. 2003. “Suppressed Currents: The ‘Fool Report’ and the Early Tennessee Valley Authority” [defamatory document, internal controversy between TVA board members Lilienthal and Morgan]. Journal of East Tennessee History 74 (2002): 69-83.

Rasmussen, Barbara. 1996. "The Politics of the Property Tax in West Virginia." [absentee landownership] Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (Spring): 141-147.

Rogers, Michael. 2004. “TVA Population Removal: Attitudes and Expectations of the Dispossessed at the Norris and Cherokee Dam Sites” [mid-1930s; tables]. Journal of East Tennessee History 75 (2003): 76-90.

Rogers, Rod. 2004. “John W. Davis and the 1924 Presidential Campaign” [Clarksburg lawyer, Democratic candidate for President, lost to Calvin Coolidge]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Fall): 32-37. Sidebar on W.Va. delegate Claude R. Linger, Braxton Co., who ran against F.D.R as a candidate in the W.Va. primary elections, p. 38-39, by James Wilson Douglas.

Ross, Michael A. 1997. “Hill-Country Doctor: The Early Life and Career of Supreme Court Justice Samuel F. Miller in Kentucky” [Barbourville, Knox Co.]. Filson Club History Quarterly 71 (October): 430-462.

Severence, Benjamin H. 1999. “Loyalty’s Political Vanguard: The Union League of Maryville, Tennessee, 1867-1869” [Radical Republican whites]. Journal of East Tennessee History 71: 25-46.

Sherwood, Topper. 2000. “Kennedy in West Virginia” [1960 presidential campaign]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Fall): 14-23.

Shockley, Megan Taylor. 1997. “King of the Wild Frontier vs. King Andrew I: Davy Crockett and the Election of 1831" [Andrew Jackson]. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 56 (Fall): 158-169.

Silveri, Louis D. 1994. “Leadership for Change: Appalachian Alabama's Congressman Carl Elliott and Modern America.” In  Appalachian Adaptations to a Changing World, ed. Norma Myers. Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 6: 156-162. Johnson City: East Tennessee State University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.

Spencer, Thomas T. 1997. “Printer and Politician: The Political Career of George L. Berry, 1907-1948". Tennessee Historical Quarterly 56 (Fall): 212-229.

St. Clair, James E., and Linda C. Gugin. 2002. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky: A Political Biography [1890-1953; b. Louisa, Ky.]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 394 pp.

Stewart, Bruce E. 2004. “Attacking ‘Red-Legged Grasshoppers’: Moonshiners, Violence, and the Politics of Federal Liquor Taxation in Western North Carolina, 1865-1876.” Appalachian Journal 32 (Fall): 26-48.

Stewart, Bruce E. 2003. “‘When Darkness Reigns Then is the Hour to Strike’: Moonshining, Federal Liquor Taxation, and Klan Violence in Western North Carolina, 1868-1872.” North Carolina Historical Review 80 (October): 453-474.

Strickland, Jamie L. 1999. “The Appalachian Regional Commission in Kentucky: A Question of Boundaries” [statistical evaluation]. Southeastern Geographer 39 (May): 86-98.

Sturm, Philip. 2000. “Senator Peter G. Van Winkle and the Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial: A Comprehensive View” [1868; examines public career of Van Winkle, W.Va. Senator, from Parkersburg, Wood Co.]. West Virginia History 58 (1999-2000): 24-43.

Sutton, David. 1995. "Sour Dough: The Elections of '94." Appalachian Journal 22 (Winter): 280-289.

Sutton, David. 1997. “Big Dough, Small Change: The Elections of 1996" [Appalachian voting patterns; federal and state]. Appalachian Journal 24 (Spring): 296-305.

Sutton, David. 1999. “Blessed Are the Rich (For Theirs Is a Seat in Congress): The Election of 1998.” Appalachian Journal 26 (Winter): 188-194.

Sutton, David. 2001. “No Tennessee Waltz in Appalachia: The Elections of 2000." Appalachian Journal 28 (Spring): 294-303.

Thomas, Jerry Bruce. 1998. An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression [1929-1941]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 316 pp.

U.S. House. 1994. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban  Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Credit  Formation. The Administration's FY '95 Budget Requests for  the Economic Development Administration and the Appalachian  Regional Commission: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on  Economic Growth and Credit Formation. 103rd Cong., 2nd sess., 10 February.

U.S. House. 2001. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management. Oversight of the Appalachian Regional Commission: Field Hearing: Nelsonville, Ohio. 106 th Cong., 2 nd sess. 8 August [focus on Ohio counties]. 101 pp. Supt. of Docs. no.: Y 4.P 96/10:S.HRG.106-960.

Text version: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS16526.

PDF version: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS16527.

U.S. House. 2002. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management. Reauthorization of the Appalachian Regional Commission: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives. 107 th Cong., 1st sess. 10 June, 2001. 51 pp. Supt. of Docs. no.: Y 4.T 68/2:107-25.

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 2001. Appalachian Regional Development Reauthorization Act of 2001: Report (to accompany H.R. 2501) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). 107 th Cong., 1 st sess., 1 Aug. 2001, Report 107-180. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O. 16 pp. Online at http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS14643.

Webb, Samuel L. 1997. Two-Party Politics in the One-Party South: Alabama’s Hill Country, 1874-1920 [ex-Populists lend strength to Republican Party after Reconstruction]. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 328 pp.

Williams, John Alexander. 1995. “Class, Section, and Culture in Nineteenth-Century West Virginia Politics.” In Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century, ed. M. Pudup, D. Billings, A. Waller, 210-232. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Winship, Marion Nelson. 1999. “Kentucky in the New Republic: A Study of Distance and Connection” [1790s; John Breckinridge]. In The Buzzel About Kentuck: Settling the Promised Land, ed. C. Friend, 100-123. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.