Longtime columnist Berry Craig digs up Kentucky’s stranger political history: Governor William Goebel, the only U.S. governor assassinated in office, Abraham Lincoln winning under 1 percent of the state’s vote in 1860, and Matthew Lyon, who won reelection from a jail cell after biting off a voter’s thumb.
These are a few of the tales Craig collects from an era when votes were bought with drinks and disputes were settled at ten paces.
Published 2009
128 pages
$21.99