What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? “The Coal Miner who became Governor” is a personal memoir of my life with an emphasis on my time as Governor of Kentucky. It was written by me with the assistance of University of Kentucky oral historian Jeffery Suchonek. Whom […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Athens on the Frontier: Grecian-Style Architecture in the Splendid Valley of the West, 1820-1860 In this book, I examine the material culture of Grecian-style buildings in antebellum America to help recover nineteenth-century regional identities. I invite readers to question many of the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? In 2023 I was pleased to publish two books. The Ancient Tradition of Angels (Bear & Co), which is a departure from, or an expansion to, my work on ancient Egypt. The other new book is the newly reprinted and expanded Awakening […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors to the table will find my most recent work: Daniel Coit Gilman and the Birth of the American Research University, published last year by Johns Hopkins University Press. This is the first full-dress biography in the last sixty years dedicated to […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors will find a newly published biography of Kentucky activist, politician, and attorney Gatewood Galbraith, Gatewood: Kentucky’s Uncommon Man. Throughout his political career, regional and national media outlets focused on the policy ideas and public acts that made Gatewood a cultural fixture: […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors will get to see Winning Tools: 3 Leadership Principles that Build Purpose, Respect and Success – a #1 Amazon Best Seller and my first book. Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book? I […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Who We Lost: A Portable COVID Memorial is an anthology of narratives of loss and remembrance. Though Who We Lost is a national endeavor, the project’s roots are entirely centered in Kentucky, inspired by the state’s unique and empathetic response to the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce is a social and material culture history of the extraordinary ways in which Kentucky women and a few men have shaped a traditionally women’s art to such high standards that these […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America’s Legendary Racehorse Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book? Lovers of stories about hidden histories as well as horses, particularly racehorses, may be interested in […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Eleanor Robson Belmont, a Theatrical Life The woman who named the great racehorse Man o’ War was a brilliant stage actress with Kentucky connections and an independent spirit. She moved in fast circles, defining her own life with a fierce intelligence […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Creepy Kentucky is the follow-up to The Kentucky Book of the Dead, but with all-new material. It includes many documented stories about ghosts, strange deaths, body snatchers, people who predicted their own deaths, premature burials, and much more. Kentucky Book of the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’ll be signing my latest book Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey, which is a brief biography of one of America’s first Black superstar athletes. Murphy was born enslaved in Bourbon County and lived most of his life […]