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Title: The Governors of Alabama (Governors of the States Series) by John Craig Stewart ISBN: 1-56554-502-8 Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Summary: Handbook For The Lazy
Comment: More than once, this reviewer has been disheartened to see this book touted by newspaper columnists as a valuable resource. It is nothing of the kind. Rather, this series of biographical sketches of Alabama governors survives merely for lack of a competitor. Had the author of this book done nothing more than copy the biographical sketches provided by Thomas Owen in his "Dictionary of Alabama Biography", then supplemented that with biographical sketches gleaned from the quadrennial "Official And Statistical Registers", he would have been able to amass a volume of at least some worth. As it is, this books is a wholesale gloss job, rife with outright inaccuracies and compounded by such a bland approach to the sketches that the serious student is left to wonder why the author even bothered. Therefore, this reviewer recommends that those wishing to learn about Alabama governors, do so by exerting a relatively small amount of research time among extant information readily available at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, and through back issues of "The Alabama Review". This reviewer further recommends that any purchase of this book be consummated for the sole purpose of disposing of it so that future generations will be spared the siren song of a book whose title is far more ambitious than its author.