About the Author

Haley Barbour, Yazoo City, Mississippi, served as Mississippi’s governor from 2004 to 2012 and is founding partner of the Washington, DC, firm BGR Group.

Jere Nash, Jackson, Mississippi, is coauthor of “Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2008” (published by University Press of Mississippi) and “Mississippi Fried Politics: Tall Tales from the Backroom”.