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For decades after the Second World War, Senator James O. Eastland was one of the more intransigent leaders of the Deep South's resistance to what he called "the Second Reconstruction”. And yet he developed, late in his life, a very real friendship with state NAACP chair Aaron Henry. Big Jim Eastland provides the life story of this savvy, unpredictable powerhouse.

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For decades after the Second World War, Senator James O. Eastland was one of the more intransigent leaders of the Deep South's resistance to what he called "the Second Reconstruction”. And yet he developed, late in his life, a very real friendship with state NAACP chair Aaron Henry. Big Jim Eastland provides the life story of this savvy, unpredictable powerhouse.
Autorenporträt
J. Lee Annis Jr. has taught history at Montgomery College for the past thirty years, and he is currently chairman of the History and Political Science Department at the Rockville campus. He is author of Howard Baker: Conciliator in an Age of Crisis, and, with Senator William H. Frist, coauthor of Tennessee Senators, 1911-2001: Portraits of Leadership in a Century of Change.