Amazing Tennessee: Fascinating Facts, Entertaining Tales, Bizarre Happenings, and Historical Oddities about the Volunteer State

by T. Jensen Lacey

Book Overview

"Amazing Tennessee" offers a rare glimpse into unusual people and events in Tennessee's 200-year history. Reading like the Volunteer State's own version of "Ripley's Believe It or Not," this book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558537902
• ISBN13: 9781558537903
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Amazing TENNESSEE

Not only is this book helpful, it is very interesting. There were parts where I couldn't stop laughing. I shed a few tears on some pages. I really learned a lot about the State of Tennessee. It's the kind of book you can carry with you and read anytime.

Good Book for finding out little-known material

The title of Lacey's new book might well be "Everything you ever wanted to know about Tennessee, but couldn't find elsewhere." Crammed full of interesting and little-known facts about the Volunteer State, the book is sure to be a hit with trivia buffs. Everything is in here, from historic information about the 1877 rainstorm of snakes in Memphis to current listings of the state's best fishing streams. This book will make a great "stocking stuffer," and it's out just in time for Christmas. Anyone who has the least connection to Tennessee should own this book and read it cover from cover. I'll guarantee you'll learn something about our great state you didn't know.

Hilarious and Informative

This book which is perfect for the coffee table, kitchen, or bathroom is a funny and revealing compendium of people, places, and oddities in the State of Tennessee. If you can't find at least one selection that either makes you laugh, guffaw, or go "you gotta be kidding", then you need counseling or just don't get it. Great little book that even adolescents will find funny and amazing.

Tennessee is an Amazing State!

This is a really good book about a state I love to visit. I especially liked the chapter about the Civil War in Tennessee. One of the most fascinating stories involves Cravens House atop strategic Lookout Mountain. During the Battle of Chattanooga the house served as the headquarters for the Confederates and the Union on the same day. I think the tragedy and chaos that must come in little anecdotes like that really personalize a major conflict. There are tons of stories about real people and delightful destinations for day trips in this book.

A Cornucopia of Unusual, Inspiring, Humorous Tennessee Tales

This book is chock-full of photos (over 50, I believe) and stories that will make you alternately laugh, wonder, or sigh with disbelief--but all the stories in AMAZING TENNESSEE are true! For example: Why was the world-famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" really a PR stunt that backfired? What was Elvis Presley's greatest 10th-birthday disappointment? Who was it that was charged with, then convicted of, killing his political opponent--and even ran against the victim's widow? What was the most unusual [i.e., nonhuman] lynching in the U.S.? Just what Tennessee restaurant has the world's oldest cooking grease still in use? What two Civil War generals had been students at West Point together, with one tutoring the other--and wound up in a famous battle in Tennessee fighting on opposite sides? What did Dolly Parton do as a young school-girl that made her refer to herself as "The Creative Dreamer of East Tennessee"? Where in Tennessee is the most famous haunted place in the country? Where in Tennesse was the most destructive earthquake in U.S. history? And what famous whiskey distiller became owner of his distillery not only in a dry county, but before he was even of legal drinking age? Find out answers to these questions--and more--between the pages of AMAZING TENNESSEE (with foreword written by Governor Don Sundquist). And, as they say in Memphis, "Thankyouverymuch."