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978-0-89587-144-2
0-89587-144-0
$16.95 paperback
7 1/2" x 8 1/2"
276 pages black-and-white photographs, a map, bibliography, index
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President Harry S. Truman
once said, "The only thing new in the world is the history you
don't know." It's not too much of a stretch to suggest he was
anticipating Every Day in Tennessee History, with its
"accurately anecdotal" vignettes about the famous, the
infamous, and the not-so-famous in the Volunteer's States past, arranged
in a reader-friendly calendar format.
From David Crockett to Elvis
Presley, from Nathan Bedford Forrest to Martin Luther King, Jr., from
Shiloh to Smoky Row, author James B. Jones, Jr., crisscrosses Tennessee
"from the mighty Mississippi to the verdure of the Smoky
Mountains." En route, readers will be treated to such tidbits as
President Andrew Jackson's $118.50 bar bill, editor William G.
Brownlow's skewering of Jefferson Davis, and John Hunt Morgan's ignoble
end in Greeneville.
Covering everything from
Civil War battles and landmark legislation to sporting events, sermons,
duels, lynchings, and more, Every Day in Tennessee History is as
entertaining as a night at the Opry, and altogether as filling as a
Miles Darden breakfast.
about the author
James B. Jones, Jr., holds a doctorate in history and historic
preservation from Middle Tennessee State University. The author of over
40 articles for such publications as Tennessee Historical Quarterly,
The Public Historian, and Civil War History, he was a
consultant for The Tennessean's "Bicentennial Snapshot"
column and was the 1994 recipient of the Marshall T. Wingfield Award,
given by the West Tennessee Historical Society. He works as a public
historian for the Tennessee Historical Commission/State Historic
Preservation Office.
For more information about
Tennessee history, log on to Jim Jones's website, www.SouthernHistory.net.
If
you like learning about day-to-day history, be sure to click here to
check out On This Day in North Carolina.
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