You can purchase your copy of Of Goats and Governors – Six Decades of Colorful Alabama Political Stories for $30. You can order via mail. Please make your check payable to: Steve Flowers Book, P.O. Box 973, Troy, AL. 36081
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Few states have as fascinating a political history as Alabama, especially in the post-World War II era.
Moving onto and off the state’s electoral stage during this period of remarkable transformation have been some of the most interesting figures in 20th-century American government and politics. Now, the backstage intrigue of Alabama politics receives a lively treatment in Of Goats and Governors, the high-spirited new memoir by former Alabama representative Steve Flowers.
Some politicians – like George Wallace, Big Jim Folsom, Lister Hill, Frank M. Johnson Jr., or Howell Heflin – became national figures and shaped the state’s image, for better or worse. Others – like Rankin Fite, Roger Bedford, Paul Hubbert, Bill Baxley, or John Patterson – have been known mostly in Alabama but have had an equally profound impact on the state. Swirling, around all these elected officials in the Heart of Dixie are stories, legends, and jokes that are told and retold by political insiders.
Of Goats and Governors – Six Decades of Colorful Alabama Political Stories is published by NewSouth Books. NewSouth Books is an Alabama-based book publishing company whose roots go back to 1984. NewSouth Books is an independent publishing house specializing in regional books of national interest.