Assassination at the State House
Elliott, Ron
| Autor: | Elliott, Ron |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Fiction - General |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 14.11.2016 |
| EAN: | 9781942613428 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 336 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Acclaim Press |
| Untertitel: | The Murder of Kentucky Governor William Goebel |
Produktinformationen "Assassination at the State House"
For decades following the Civil War, people used the expression "when Kentucky goes Republican" in the same way someone today might say "when hell freezes over" to indicate the improbability of some event. Indeed from 1859, a Democrat occupied Kentucky's Governor's chair for the next nine terms. Then, in 1895, the unthinkable occurred: Kentucky elected its first Republican Governor! When Republican presidential candidate William McKinley carried Kentucky the following year, the Democrats felt something must be done to stem this alarming trend. Elliott's detailed examination of the vitriolic 1899 political campaign, the ensuing assassination of William Goebel and the resulting political and civil turmoil sheds an informative and intriguing light into this darkest corner of Kentucky's history. The author's equally fascinating investigation of the criminal proceedings, which lasted twenty years, and the political legacy of this quintessential story of Kentucky politics prove that "politics are the damnedest" in Kentucky.
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