Inside the Carnival Unmasking Louisiana Politics

Name: Inside the Carnival Unmasking Louisiana Politics
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ISBN: 9780807131985

ISBN-10: 0807131989

ISBN-13: 9780807131985

Edition: N/A

Authors: Wayne Parent

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A prominent Louisiana political scientist makes plain the reasons for the state's political peculiarities. In the popular American imagination, Louisiana may come closer than any other state to offering the experience of a foreign culture--a Spanish-moss-draped netherland filled with friendly but vaguely threatening Cajuns, seething creature-infested swamps, the whirling masked chaos of Mardi Gras, seductive N'awlins cadences, and most vividly, even pruriently, the train wreck of Louisiana politics: cash-under-the-table shenanigans, fat and sassy environmental polluters, devil-and-the-deep-bluesea electoral choices like the 1991 gubernatorial runoff between the Klan-tainted David Duke and…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: LSU Press
Publication date: 9/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English