Breakfast with Keel Hunt
Tuesday July 23, 2013 – Tuesday July 23, 2013
The Mad Platter
Description:
Keel Hunt is President of The Strategy Group, a public affairs consulting business in Nashville. In his early career, Keel was a reporter, editorial writer, Washington correspondent, and City Editor for the Nashville Tennessean. He left the newspaper to join Lamar Alexander’s successful campaign for Governor of Tennessee. Following the 1978 election, he was appointed Special Assistant to the Governor, serving as a speechwriter and coordinator of the Governor’s Policy Group. Since 1986 he has been a speechwriter and public affairs consultant.
Keel’s new book, published by the Vanderbilt University Press, tells the story of the extraordinary 1979 ouster of Governor Ray Blanton by senior leaders of his own political party. Based on 163 interviews, Hunt describes how collaborators came together from opposite sides of the political aisle and reached agreement, with no precedent in American history, to stop what one FBI agent called “the state’s most heinous political crime in half a century” – selling pardons for cash.
Books will be available for purchase at breakfast from Bookman Bookwoman
