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Tennessee Political Humor: Some of These Jokes You Voted for

Tennessee Political Humor: Some of These Jokes You Voted for

Herron, Roy
Ivy, L. H. Cotton

Paperback

HumorGeneral Political ScienceUnited States Politics

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ISBN10: 1572331038
ISBN13: 9781572331037
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Nov 29 2000
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.53 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Almost 175 years ago, Congressman Davy Crockett encountered a Massachusetts colleague in Washington. The New Englander, pointing to a farmer driving some mules along Pennsylvania Avenue, quipped: Hello, there, Crockett, here's a lot of your constituents on parade. Where are they going? The Tennessee frontiersman shot back, They are going to Massachusetts to teach school.

Ever since Crockett's day, Volunteer State politicians have used humor to deflate their rivals, garner votes, and keep the public amused. Often the public has laughed at them--sometimes even when they were not telling jokes. This book, the first of its kind for Tennessee, offers a broad sampling of that wonderful comic lore, enriched over the years by Democrats and Republicans alike.

The stories range from extended anecdotes and tall tales to one-line zingers. Local politics, statewide races, judicial decisions, and Capitol Hill maneuverings are all covered. Occasionally, names have been changed to protect the guilty, but more times than not, real names are used: Howard Baker, Al Gore (Senior and Junior), Estes Kefauver, and Lamar Alexander are just a few of the pols who cross these pages.

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