The Mountain, the Miner, and the Lord and Other Tales from a Country Law Office / Edition 1

by Harry M. Caudill

Overview

This book of stories celebrates people who have a magnetism, a tenacity, a personal vision, an independence, and a self-sufficiency that elude most of us today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813101958
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	05/22/1989
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	458,653
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Harry M. Caudill (1922-1990) grew up in the coal fields of Letcher County, Kentucky, with a zest for history and reading. After being seriously wounded in Italy during World War II, Caudill went to the University of Kentucky Law School and later practiced law in Whitesburg, in Letcher County. He held some local political offices, in addition to a seat in the Kentucky House of Representatives. Caudill's 1963 book, Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area was and is a very influential work on Eastern Kentucky, affecting local and national government through individuals ranging from President Kennedy to Kentucky governors and Appalachian writers such as Denise Giardina. After retiring from practicing law, Caudill wrote 6 more books, more than 80 articles, and many editorials in the local Whitesburg paper, The Mountain Eagle. He delivered frequent speeches on strip mining and other Eastern Kentucky issues.

Editorial Reviews

Something to be savored. Some of the tales have twists rivaling anything ever conceived by O. Henry.

St. Louis Post Dispatch

The stories shine.... More important, they celebrate people who have a magnetism, a tenacity, a personal vision, an independence, and a self-sufficiency that elude most of us today.

Washington Post

"Something to be savored. Some of the tales have twists rivaling anything ever conceived by O. Henry." -- St. Louis Post Dispatch

"The stories shine.... More important, they celebrate people who have a magnetism, a tenacity, a personal vision, an independence, and a self-sufficiency that elude most of us today." -- Washington Post

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