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Author Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer.

Title Hugo Black : the Alabama Years.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (353 pages)
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Contents 1. Son of Clay County; 2. ""Hugo-to-Hell"" Black; 3. Booze, Blind Tigers, and Bloody Beat; 4. White Robes and Black Cassocks; 5. Oscar Won't Demagogue ; 6. A Pee-Wee Challenges the Royal Bankheads; 7. Let Al Smith Tote His Own Skillet; 8. Set a Steel Trap for Tom; 9. Mixing in Political Beds; 10. When Are These Air-mail Killings Going to Stop?; 11. Chairman Black's Three-Ring Circus; 12. I Nominate Hugo L. Black; 13. I Did Join the Klan; Epilogue; Bibliographical Essay; Index.
Summary "Hamilton writes well and Alabama politics is always fascinating. As narrative history the book is outstanding, and it is easily the best study of Black's political career."-- American Historical Review.
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Subject Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971.
Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971.
Judges -- United States -- Biography.
Judges.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Alabama -- Biography.
Alabama.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Hamilton, Virginia Van Der Veer. Hugo Black : The Alabama Years. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2014 9780817301286
ISBN 0817388591
9780817388591 (electronic book)