Thomas D. Clark of Kentucky: An Uncommon Life in the Commonwealth

Book Overview

By the flip of a coin, Thomas Dionysius Clark became intertwined in the vast history of Kentucky. In 1928, Clark received scholarships to both the University of Cincinnati and to the University of Kentucky. Kentucky won the coin toss and the claim to one of the South's eminent historians. In 1990, when the Kentucky General Assembly honored Clark by declaring him Kentucky's Historian Laureate for life, Governor Brereton Jones described Clark as "Kentucky's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081312297X
• ISBN13: 9780813122977
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"