| Kentucky Cured:: Fifty Years in Kentucky Journalism Contributor(s): Smith, Al (Author), Press (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1609497902 ISBN-13: 9781609497903 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $21.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers |
| Dewey: 976.904 |
| LCCN: 2012036891 |
| Series: American Chronicles |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Kentucky |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Smith, Al: - Al Smith began his career in New Orleans in the late 1940s. Struggles with alcoholism got him fired from two New Orleans dailies. He moved to Kentucky, got sober, and built a truly remarkable career in journalism. Smith covered Kentucky politics for the Lexington Herald-Leader and the Louisville Courier-Journal and hosted Comment On Kentucky"? for 33 years." |