He was using his field work as the basis for a master’s thesis when, in 1988, he took the job at the Criminal Justice Center, which was offering no one a new start. At the time, Nashville was known to the outside world as a harmlessly boisterous place with good music. But in its political culture the corruption was inescapable, and, like the city itself, carnivalesque. A former governor, Ray Blanton, had gone to federal prison for selling liquor licenses. A onetime majority leader of the Tennessee House of Representatives, who had won reëlection from a jail cell, would soon be imprisoned for his role in a criminal ring that traded in illicit bingo licenses. The beau ideal of local graft was Hall’s boss, Fate Thomas, the Davidson County sheriff. Thomas so thoroughly embodied the city’s official venality that Nashvillians took to calling him Boss Hogg, for the character in the “Dukes of Hazzard” TV show. For years, he was investigated by the F.B.I. for diverting public funds to pay for personal expenses and for using county employees to staff, among other things, his private barbecues. Locals revelled in his notoriety. A cover of Nashville magazine showed Thomas holding a cowboy hat and a cigar, a six-shooter on his belt, with the headline “Why Do the Feds Want to Lock Him Away in His Own Slammer?”
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