Jere Nash is a native of Greenville, Mississippi, served as a Democratic political consultant for forty-five years, and is coauthor of three books on Mississippi history. His most recent book is Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862–1877, published by University Press of Mississippi. His first book, Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006, written with Andy Taggart, won awards from the Mississippi Historical Society and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.
