Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down to land on the baseball field outside the prison that the convicts share amiably with the local Little League team. Officials claimed they had sealed off a 10-sq.-mi. area, but other agents began taking the precautionary step of checking highways and airports in Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia and Kentucky...
...draft and Vietnam, and marched out at the time of Nixon, Cambodia, and Gulf in Angola, with the April 1969 bust and Kent State in between. What comes as a surprise is that the novel, The Shad Treatment, is about the mud and blood of a Virginia governor's race in the classic populist-versus-conservative mold, and that it's good...
...novel revolves around two ill-concealed politicians closely drawn from a recent Virginia campaign: MacIlwain Evans, a 26-year-old political operative whose family is deeply entrenched in the Virginia aristocracy, and his chosen boss and candidate, Thomas Jefferson Shadwell. Shadwell is a fiery populist state senator from the Virginia backwoods who first fought the conservative regular Democrats and is now waging his campaign for governor with a rhetoric that rings just short of a call to revolution...
...word and deed to Henry Howells, a state senator who ran for governor in 1973 and is running again this year. His previous losing campaign clearly is the basis for this novel. And Epps's sympathetic portrayal of Shadwell--and therefore Howells--may well influence the voting in Virginia this fall...
...Evans came to Shadwell's campaign after a year and a half at the University of Virginia Law School and about a year spent working on George McGovern's campaign. Tom Jeff is portrayed as a politician who is honest to a fault, and as sincere and concerned about the plight of "his people" as Jesus himself. Epps describes the campaign stop that Shadwell makes at a small-town general store...