The Politics of Trust
The Politics of Trust

Author: Gordon E. Harvey

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2015-11

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0817318828

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"Examines the political career of Reubin Askew, whose election as governor in 1970 marked the beginning of a golden age in Florida's politics"--

The Electric Chair
The Electric Chair

Author: Craig Brandon

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0786451017

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This book provides a history of the electric chair and analyzes its features, its development, and the manner of its use. Chapters cover the early conceptual stages as a humane alternative to hanging, and the rivalry between Edison and Westinghouse that was one of the main forces in the chair's adoption as a mode of execution. Also presented are an account of the terrible first execution and a number of the subsequent gruesome employments of the chair. The text explores the changing attitudes toward the chair as state after state replaced it with lethal injection.

The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1821-1824
The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1821-1824

Author: Andrew Jackson

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9780870498978

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This fifth volume of 'The Papers of Andrew Jackson' documents Jackson's retirement from the military in 1821 and his emergence as the leading presidential candidate in 1824.