Kentucky Cured:: Fifty Years in Kentucky Journalism (American Chronicles)

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. Prologue: Telling Sally Part I. My New Kentucky Home Memories of Memorial Day Duel in Logan County Jobs: Marvin Stuart Counts the Cows Jobs: Doc Beauchamp Calls Frankfort Part II. Crossing the County Line I Become a Capitalist Checks from LBJ Part III. Appalachia Mountain Journalist Beauty and Tragedy Generations "A Beggar for Paupers" Part IV. Storytellers and Poets A Feast of Age A Laureate of Letters Bingham's "Best Writer" Part V. The Wars They Fought Letters Home The Christian Cornet Player Heroes of World War II Part VI. A Special Time FDR in Kentucky Barkley and Truman Patriots Part VII. In Black and White Blues and Jazz Rights, Ray and Russellville Reunion in Louisiana Lyman Johnson A Black Woman's Story Atticus in Alabama Part VIII. Politics Shooting Straight on Sin "Getting" Happy Why Clements and Prichard Still Matter Before Mitch "Teacher Men" Nunn and Ned Tea Party Reforming Gatewood Part IX. Who They Were A Baker's Dozen Part X. In Our Time : Appreciations The Last Rhea in Logan County Lucille Little and Friends Public Servant, First Class A Brilliant Professor A Prince of Western Kentucky The Advocate Hero of the Mountains Lady of Grace and Grit Part XI. Swept Away A Prayer for New Orleans Remembering Flight 5191.