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Kentucky Cured : Fifty Years in Kentucky Journalism

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Andrew Jackson fought a duel in rural Logan County, Kentucky. Jesse James robbed a bank there, and frontier lawyers began political careers. But a resentful Al Smith knew none of this when he got off the bus at Russellville, rented a room at a shabby hotel and asked for the nearest bootlegger. After losing two newspaper jobs in New Orleans, he was the new tramp editor of Russellville's little country weekly. He was thirty-one, and his life was in shambles. Fifty sober years later, his stories tell what happened after he was cured of his negative obsessions and discovered Kentucky was a land of the second chance. From county courthouse to the White House, read all about it.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781540232434
  • ISBN-10: 1540232433
  • Publisher: History Press Library Editions
  • Publish Date: October 2012
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.56 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.04 pounds
  • Page Count: 226

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