Kentucky Books

I learned a lot about indians and life in early america. I liked learing the facts and what really happened. It was really exciting. I think 8 and up should read this book. (...).

All of B. J. Hoff's Daybreak mysteries are great reading. Dark River Legacy is no exception. Once again, Daniel and Jennifer are thrown in a situation of intrigue and suspense when they visit their friend Mitch in Kentucky. Mitch's friends include a mysterious elderly lady who appears in town with no past and a beautiful writer who Mitch knew in his childhood. All of these characters entwined with an evil killer and a threatening flood make for a great read! Seeing the power of the Lord bring everyone through in the end was a great climax to the book. If you like mysteries and other Christian mystery writers like Terri Blackstock or Jane Peart, you will enjoy this book and all of her mysteries in this series.

Small book but so many memories tucked inside! Authors did a great job at bringing to life "small town U.S.A.". I grew up there and could not put the book down. Do yourself a favor and read this gem!

This book is excellent for children of all ages. It brings to life the excitement of the Kentucky Derby. The book adds fun with it's colorful and imaginative pop-ups and tells the complete story of the race. Includes well researched historical background and photos of past Kentucky Derby's. I loved how the author included a recording of the "Call to the Post".

If you enjoy this book, you will also enjoy "Macy's on Parade".

This book is still available from Heritagebooks.com. It is NOT out of print!

Ernest England, Jr. put a lifetime of genealogical research in the publication of the genealogy of Jonanthan England (1750-1815)of Burke County, N.C. and his descendants. Jonanthan England moved his family to Adair County, Kentucky in the late 1700's. Ernest traces the England line and kinship as the family grew and flourished in Kentucky. The book is complied from the exhaustive research of Ernest and from information he gathered from each of the family lines by family surveys before the Internet and computer came on the scene. Much information was gathered by personal interview with family members. It is a must have for any descendant of this ENGLAND line.

This true story has great insight into race relations in small-town midwest/southern America in the early 1900s. It is a spellbinding tale that I couldn't put down until I had read the last page. Now, nearly 100 years later, it is hard to believe that lynch mobs and frontier justice still existed in the 20th century in this small western Kentucky town that is my home. Judge (now Kentucky Supreme Court Justice) Cunningham is a great writer and storyteller. I recommend this book to anyone interested in west Kentucky history, lynch mob history, race relations (then and now), or criminal justice, or to anyone who just wants to read a good story. Not only is this book very insightful, it is very entertaining.

This is a great book for anyone who is interested in the politics of Kentucky. Although the title of the book indicates a focus on the years 1930-1960, it actually starts out with the founding of the State. WARNING: If you are a A.B. "Happy" Chandler fan this might not be the book for you. However, if you are interested in a accurate enjoyable read that focuses on the struggle of Kentucky Politics, I highly recommended this book.

I am extremely impressed with Taylor's book, which explores the real and imagined consequences of the Civil War on families in border states, where the question of secession was the most complicated and the most fraught. This book not only documents (in writing that rises to the level of great literary writing -- a rarity in young historians) the actual occurrence of split families and what they had to say for themselves, but also the psychological, moral, and political implications of families at odds with each other. That is, this book gets beyond the idea of "the brother's war" as merely a curiosity or a sentimental metaphor, and shows how the state of the society -- the relations between men and women, white and black -- itself is revealed in the experience of these families, observed in extremis.

The writing, again, is extraordinary. Fans of Doris Kearn Goodwin or David McCullough will love this book, and will be pleased to know that Taylor is of the new generation of historians and likely to be around and writing for a very long time.

This book seems to be a tribute to Black womanhood. It is a lifting of the veil of invisibility, to show an infrastructure, on which much of this country's literature has been written. This author gives voice to a history that exposes the appropriation of more then just bodies. She writes into history from an obscured position that of the female, revealing the deep hidden story of the way things were, acknowledging her story. It is like the backbone to the imagination and depth of American literature is being revealed. This book outlines such a delicate, intricate, detailed thing, the evacuation of wholeness, the extraction of worth from the Black woman, to be grafted onto White women, while at the same time making Black women a depository for the myth of sexual deviant, the origin of impurity. I wrote in all in the margins of the book! I really enjoyed the careful unfolding of the history of women (white) meticulously layered within of the racial constructs of the Black female image. The analysis of the Biblical story of Sarah is thought provoking and painful. The process of the devaluation of Black womanhood is so insidious, so detailed, so diabolical, and so "well" efficiently done! I love the last sentence of the first paragraph on pg. 59! It is so small, such a little detail with huge ramifications! It is the difference. It is everything in such a gentle, seemly benign shift. It is only the difference between the happy slave relieved of that pesky responsibility of freedom and the oppressed masses laboring to death under tyranny! I enjoyed the book! I loved what I read, I savored the voice the book valued and recognized its uniqueness. It made me envision the possibility of a different path of history and the possibilities of a different future! Clearly one of the ways to achieve real progress, a greater revelation of truth is for readers, all readers, to read and reevaluate "the story" they have been given. As the author so clearly states, the path to understanding, to real comprehension lie in, an aesthetically removed, analysis of the concepts and ethics inherent in the foundation of the written word. This concept may be applied to all readings, in by pasting the pleasure, in resisting the seduction of the story a reader is gifted with a more sophisticated, inclusive appreciation of the ideologies hidden within a text.