From My Old Kentucky Home To The White House
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From My Old Kentucky Home To The White House
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Author : Catherine Conner
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-05-11
From My Old Kentucky Home To The White House written by Catherine Conner and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This lively memoir recounts the story of a determined woman who led a remarkable life in the highest circles of power in both state and national politics. Catherine Conner spent her formative years on a farm named "Solitude," located outside of Bardstown. Her father, who taught her early to ride and swim, told the young woman, "I can't teach you how to be a lady, but I can teach you how to behave like a gentleman." She was weaned on a secret "early breakfast" of bourbon and milk toddies that her father brought to her every morning. Though she enjoyed privilege, Conner also witnessed the harsher sides of rural life. Those experiences markedly shaped the personality of a woman who would become the youngest National Democratic Committeewoman and would subsequently serve in FDR's inner circle. Conner began her political career in Kentucky under the tutelage of J. Dan Talbott of Bardstown, heading the successful effort to have Federal Hill, better known as "My Old Kentucky Home," preserved as a state park, which has now become one of the most popular in Kentucky. When local leaders proved only mildly supportive of the project, Conner devised a campaign in 1921 that raised $45,000 by having schoolchildren all over the state drop their pennies into a cardboard replica of the famous home. She acted as a special assistant to Harry Hopkins for five years, helping set up departments to carry out New Deal programs and lobbying. She befriended many of the shapers of the 20th Century, including Senator Sam Rayburn, A.B. "Happy" Chandler, and Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia. Throughout her life, Conner witnessed remarkable events. She saw the Hindenburg crash, met Amelia Earhart, and had Cary Grant show her how to gut a Thanksgiving turkey.
My Old Kentucky Home
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Author : Emily Bingham
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2024-09-17
My Old Kentucky Home written by Emily Bingham and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-17 with History categories.
"The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home." So begins an American standard, first published as a minstrel song, that became dear to the hearts of millions and ultimately was enshrined as the Kentucky Derby's sonic centerpiece—a popular selling point for Kentucky tourism. Emily Bingham's masterful decoding of Stephen Foster's 1853 ballad reveals that the song was always about slavery and how white Americans wanted to remember it. Acknowledging her own entanglement in this legacy, Bingham takes readers on the journey of a melody, from its inception by a white northerner, to its enormous success on the blackface circuit, in recordings by Al Jolson and Bing Crosby, and on the pages of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, to its countless screen appearances, including Shirley Temple movies, The Simpsons, and Mad Men. For almost two centuries, "My Old Kentucky Home" has never been just a song—it continues to be a resonant, changing emblem of America's original sin, whose blood-drenched shadow haunts us still. My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song investigates the tune's hidden history, lodged in the nation's cultural DNA, and ends with a startling solution for what to do with this artifact of race and slavery.
Congressional Record
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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Law categories.
Kentucky Stock Farm
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Author : Andrew G. Leonard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Kentucky Stock Farm written by Andrew G. Leonard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Livestock categories.
The People S House
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Author : Thomas D. Clark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-10-29
The People S House written by Thomas D. Clark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-29 with Architecture categories.
In The People's House: Governor's Mansions of Kentucky, Dr. Thomas D. Clark, Kentucky's historian laureate, and Margaret A. Lane paint a vivid portrait of the life inside the mansions' bricks and mortar. They examine the accomplishments and failures of their residents, the ideas and influences that have grown up within their walls, and the births, deaths, marriages, and celebrations that have brought life to the homes. Complete with over two hundred color and black and white photographs and illustrations, many of them quite rare, this only account of Kentucky governor's mansions offers a unique glimpse inside the buildings that have been respected, revered, and used by the state's leaders for two centuries.
The Filson Club History Quarterly
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Author : Otto Arthur Rothert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Filson Club History Quarterly written by Otto Arthur Rothert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Kentucky categories.
Includes list of members.
The Filson Club History Quarterly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
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Bibliographic Guide To Womens Studies 1998
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Author : New York Public Library Staff
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1999-08
Bibliographic Guide To Womens Studies 1998 written by New York Public Library Staff and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08 with categories.
U S News World Report
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
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My Old Kentucky Home
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Author : Elliot Paul
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
My Old Kentucky Home written by Elliot Paul and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Domestic relations categories.
Memories of a year spent in Louisville in 1909-1910.