Welcome to Capitol Hill, Joel Ebert
Welcome to Capitol Hill, Joel Ebert
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Welcome to Capitol Hill
Fifty Years of Scandal in Tennessee Politics

Author: Joel Ebert, Erik Schelzig

Narrator: Chris Abernathy

Unabridged: 7 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/25/2025

Synopsis

Although Tennessee has a rich history of political scandals dating back to the founding of the state, the last fifty years have been a confusing, confounding, and sometimes ludicrous period of ne'er-do-welling. Welcome to Capitol Hill is a guide to the state's modern history of corruption. From Governor Ray Blanton's pardon scandals to the FBI investigation that started with now lieutenant governor Randy McNally wearing a wire in the late 1980s to the sexual misconduct that plagues Tennessee politics, this book chronicles it all.

Veteran political reporters Joel Ebert and Erik Schelzig draw from interviews, archival documents, and never-before-seen federal investigative files to provide listeners with a handy resource about the wrongdoings of our elected officials.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on March 22, 2024

Welcome to Capitol Hill: 50 Years of Scandal in Tennessee Politics by Joel Ebert and Erik Schelzig (Vanderbilt University Press 2023) (364.1323) (3920). Tennessee has had an assortment of public political scandals within the last fifty years worthy of inclusion in a volume of this ilk. Two of the be......more

Goodreads review by Werewolf670 on September 13, 2024

Really shows how deep the political issues have always been in Tennessee. And to sum it all is this quote from Politico (By JONATHAN MARTIN) “Today, Tennessee represents the grim culmination of the forces corroding state politics: the nationalization of elections and governance, the tribalism between......more

Goodreads review by Brian on December 06, 2023

Ebert and Schelzig described their motivation in the intro - one of the main factors was the loss of institutional memory in Tennessee state politics which is being driven by retirements and shrinking political reporting staffs. The 7 chapters cover 7 of the more significant political scandals invol......more

Goodreads review by Mark on December 04, 2023

A short, great history of TN politics gone awry. If you want or need to know the history of TN this is a good start. A recent, 2023, publication, is a keeper for the TN library. From Blanton and the Butchers - to the Tennessee Three. I strongly recommend. Well written. Easy to read. A fun read or/ a......more

Goodreads review by Robert on August 20, 2023

I’ve worked on Capitol Hill for over 30 years so I thought I knew the details of most of these stories inside and out. I didn’t. Erik and Joel uncovered a lot of details that I’d missed or are just now available. Great, well written, meticulously researched, quick read.......more

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