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

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 greatest treasure." Historian, advocate,

Author: John E. Kleber
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/14/2003
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.38w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780813122977

About the Author

John E. Kleber, emeritus professor of history at Morehead State University, is the editor of The Kentucky Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of Louisville.

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