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Gatewood - Kentucky'S Uncommon Man

by Matthew Strandmark

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 When Louis Gatewood Galbraith passed away in 2012, the flood of tributes honoring him merely scratched the surface of the life of this colorful and controversial figure. Throughout his political career, regional and national media outlets focused on the policy ideas and public acts that made Galbraith a cultural fixture: public demonstrations, an affinity for recreational drug use, unfiltered language, and recurring political campaigns. Best known as an advocate for the legalization of cannabis, Second Amendment rights, and smaller government, Galbraith was a perennial candidate whose once-quixotic platform might have found traction in contemporary Kentucky politics. In Gatewood: Kentucky's Uncommon Man, Matthew Strandmark weaves together personal stories, public records, and oral history interviews to provide a comprehensive overview of the life and career of an eccentric and fascinating figure. From his ailment-plagued childhood in Carlisle, Kentucky, to his young adulthood spent at the fringes of Lexington society, the opening chapters of Galbraith's life were vital in developing the values that later came to define his political career-his passion for rural communities and low tolerance for bullies. As a college dropout in the 1960s, Galbraith explored both conventional and unconventional avenues of self-discovery before returning to the University of Kentucky, where he graduated from law school and found his calling as an evangelist for cannabis legalization. His appetite for the spotlight and his penchant for standing up for the underdog launched Galbraith into a thirty-year career of campaigning, groundbreaking legal cases, public activism throughout the commonwealth-and friendships with celebrities, including Woody Harrelson, Jack Herer, and Willie Nelson.As an attorney, activist, author, father, friend, and opponent, Galbraith wore many hats-and not just his beloved fedora. This revealing biography features insightful conversations with Galbraith's family and colleagues, as well as commentary from Paul E. Patton, Ernie Fletcher, Andy Barr, Ben Chandler, and other well-known Kentuckians. Gatewood provides a richer and nuanced understanding of a generous, complicated, and flawed public figure who devoted his life to helping others and whose legacy will continue to resonate with Kentuckians for generations to come.
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Coal Miner Who Became Governor

by Paul E. Patton

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 Born in a tenant house in Fallsburg, Kentucky, Paul Patton had a humble upbringing that held few clues about his future as one of the most prominent politicians in the history of the state. From the coal mines to the governor's office, Patton's life exemplifies hard work, determination, and perseverance, as well as the consequences of personal mistakes.In The Coal Miner Who Became Governor, Patton, with Jeffrey S. Suchanek, details his personal, professional, and political life in Kentucky, starting with his career in the coal industry. After working for his father-in-law, J. C. Cooley, in the 1950s, he partnered with his brother-in-law to establish their own coal company, which they sold for millions in 1978. Patton leveraged his business connections into a political career, raising money for Democratic candidates before becoming the chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party. He first took elected office in 1981 as Pike County judge/executive; he then served a term as lieutenant governor (1991-1995), followed by an unprecedented two consecutive terms as governor. His overhaul of higher education in Kentucky led to his role as the University of Pikeville's president and chancellor, even after his political career. In this compelling account, Patton reveals the decision-making process for campaign strategies, selection of running mates, postsecondary education and workers' compensation reforms, early childhood development initiatives, and attempts at tax reform. He gives his unfiltered opinion about Mitch McConnell's "scorched-earth political philosophy" and how it has failed Kentucky, and he draws connections between public policy and party machinations during his time in office and the present day. He also addresses his fall from grace-his extramarital affair with Tina Conner and its effects on his personal and professional life.
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Washington'S Iron Butterfly - Bess Clements Abell, An Oral History

by Donald A. Ritchie e Terry L. Birdwhistell

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 Had Elizabeth "Bess" Clements Abell (1933-2020) been a boy, she would likely have become a politician like her father, Earle C. Clements. Effectively barred from office because of her gender, she forged her own path by helping family friends Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. Abell's Secret Service code name, "Iron Butterfly," exemplified her graceful but firm management of social life in the Johnson White House. After Johnson's administration ended, she maintained her importance in Washington, DC, serving as chief of staff to Joan Mondale and cofounding a public relations company. Donald A. Ritchie and Terry L. Birdwhistell draw on Abell's own words and those of others known to her to tell her remarkable story. Focusing on her years working for the Johnson campaign and her time in the White House, this engaging oral history provides a window into Abell's life as well as an insider's view of the nation's capital during the tumultuous 1960s.
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Burley - Kentucky Tobacco In A New Century

by Ann K. Ferrell

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 Once iconic American symbols, tobacco farms are gradually disappearing. In Kentucky the plant has played an important role in economic development and prosperity. Ann K. Ferrell investigates the rapidly transforming process of raising and selling tobacco by chronicling her conversations with the farmers who know the crop best.
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Mind, Matter And Nature - A Thomistic Proposal For The Philosophy Of Mind

by James D. Madden

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 Introductory texts on the philosophy of mind tend to presume that we
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Arab And Jewish Women In Kentucky - Stories Of Accommodation And Audacity

by Nora Rose Moosnick

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 Outwardly it would appear that Arab and Jewish immigrants comprise two distinct groups with differing cultural backgrounds and an adversarial relationship. Yet, as immigrants who have settled in communities at a distance from metropolitan areas, both must negotiate complex identities. Growing up in Kentucky as the granddaughter of Jewish immigrants, Nora Rose Moosnick observed this traditionally mismatched pairing firsthand, finding that, Arab and Jewish immigrants have been brought together by their shared otherness and shared fears. Even more intriguing to Moosnick was the key role played by immigrant women of both cultures in family businesses -- a similarity which brings the two groups close together as they try to balance the demands of integration into American society.In Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky: Stories of Audacity and Accomodation, Moosnick reveals how Jewish and Arab women have navigated the intersection of tradition, assimilation, and Kentucky's cultural landscape. The stories of ten women's experiences as immigrants or the children of immigrants join around common themes of public service to their communities, intergenerational relationships, running small businesses, and the difficulties of juggling family and work. Together, their compelling narratives challenge misconceptions and overcome the invisibility of Arabs and Jews in out of the way places in America.
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Freedom On The Border - An Oral History Of The Civil Rights Movement In Kentucky

by Catherine Fosl e Tracy E. K'Meyer

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 Features 103 civil rights activists who recall their struggles to dismantle legal segregation in Kentucky. This book also describes pivotal moments such as the 1964 March on Frankfort, led by Martin Luther King Jr. It covers southern civil rights movement history.
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Crawfish Bottom - Recovering A Lost Kentucky Community

by Douglas A. Boyd

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 A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city's Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd's Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of the controversial community that ultimately saw four-hundred families displaced. Using oral histories and firsthand memories, Boyd not only provides a record of a vanished neighborhood and its culture but also demonstrates how this type of study enhances the historical record. A former Frankfort police officer describes Craw's residents as a "rough class of people, who didn't mind killing or being killed." In Crawfish Bottom, the former residents of Craw acknowledge the popular misconceptions about their community but offer a richer and more balanced view of the past.
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Voices From The Peace Corps - Fifty Years Of Kentucky Volunteers

by Angene Wilson e Jack Wilson

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 President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. In the fifty years since, nearly 200,000 Americans have served in 139 countries, providing technical assistance, promoting a better understanding of American culture, and bringing the world back to the United States. In Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers, Angene Wilson and Jack Wilson, who served in Liberia from 1962 to 1964, follow the experiences of volunteers as they make the decision to join, attend training, adjust to living overseas and the job, make friends, and eventually return home to serve in their communities. They also describe how the volunteers made a difference in their host countries and how they became citizens of the world for the rest of their lives. Among many others, the interviewees include a physics teacher who served in Nigeria in 1961, a smallpox vaccinator who arrived in Afghanistan in 1969, a nineteen-year-old Mexican American who worked in an agricultural program in Guatemala in the 1970s, a builder of schools and relationships who served in Gabon from 1989 to 1992, and a retired office administrator who taught business in Ukraine from 2000 to 2002. Voices from the Peace Corps emphasizes the value of practical idealism in building meaningful cultural connections that span the globe.
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Under The Greenwood Tree - A Celebration Of Kentucky Shakespeare

by Tracy E K'Meyer

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Under The Greenwood Tree - A Celebration Of Kentucky Shakespeare

by Tracy E K'Meyer

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Gatewood - Kentucky'S Uncommon Man

by Matthew Strandmark

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 Throughout his political career, regional and national media outlets focused on the policy ideas and public acts that made Gatewood a cultural fixture: public demonstrations, an affinity for recreational drug use, unfiltered language, and recurring political campaigns.
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Anatomy Of A Duel - Secession, Civil War, And The Evolution Of Kentucky Violence

by Stuart W Sanders

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 In deconstructing the event, Sanders details why these prominent Kentuckians found themselves on the dueling ground during the nation's bloodiest conflict, how society and the Civil War pushed them to fight, why duels continued to be fought in Kentucky even after this violent confrontation, and how Kentuckians applied violence after the Civil War.
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Anatomy Of A Duel - Secession, Civil War, And The Evolution Of Kentucky Violence

by Stuart W Sanders

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 In deconstructing the event, Sanders details why these prominent Kentuckians found themselves on the dueling ground during the nation's bloodiest conflict, how society and the Civil War pushed them to fight, why duels continued to be fought in Kentucky even after this violent confrontation, and how Kentuckians applied violence after the Civil War.
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Gatewood - Kentucky'S Uncommon Man

by Matthew Strandmark

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The Coal Miner Who Became Governor

by Paul E Patton

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Every Hill A Burial Place - The Peace Corps Murder Trial In East Africa

by Peter H Reid

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 A compelling account of the high-profile murder trial in Tanzania in the 1960s.
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The Gospel Of Freedom - Black Evangelicals And The Underground Railroad

by Alicestyne Turley

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 Addresses the important contributions of black and white antislavery southerners who united to form organised networks to assist slaves in the US Deep South, amplifying the lost voices of the Underground Railroad.
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The Bizarre Careers Of John R. Brinkley

by R Alton Lee

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 Tells the story of a controversial charlatan who transformed 20th century medicine, American politics, and radio broadcasting.
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Never Say Die - A Kentucky Colt, The Epsom Derby, And The Rise Of The Modern Thoroughbred Industry

by James C Nicholson e Pete Best

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 Featuring a foreword by the original drummer for the Beatles, Pete Best, this remarkable book reveals how an underdog's surprise victory played a part in the formation of the most successful and influential rock band in history and made the Bluegrass region of Kentucky the center of the international Thoroughbred industry.
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This Is Home Now - Kentucky'S Holocaust Survivors Speak

by Arwen Donahue, Douglas A Boyd, James C Klotter, Joan Ringelheim e Rebecca Gayle Howell

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 The story of the holocaust survivors who settled in Kentucky and their new lives.
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Voice Of The Wildcats - Claude Sullivan And The Rise Of Modern Sportscasting

by Alan Sullivan, Joe Cox e Tom Leach

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 This engaging biography showcases the life and work of a beloved broadcast talent.
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Voices From The Peace Corps - Fifty Years Of Kentucky Volunteers

by Angene Wilson, Glenn Blumhorst e Jack Wilson

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 Emphasises the value of practical idealism in building meaningful cultural connections that span the globe.
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Washington'S Iron Butterfly - Bess Clements Abell, An Oral History

by Donald A Ritchie, Richard N Smith e Terry Birdwhistell

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 Offers a window into the life of Elizabeth â€˜Bessâ€™ Clements Abell, former social secretary to President Johnson.
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