This I Believe: Kentucky by Dan Gediman


This I Believe: Kentucky
Title : This I Believe: Kentucky
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ISBN : 1935497669
ISBN-10 : 9781935497660
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 204
Publication : First published January 1, 2013

This collection of This I Believe essays gathers 60 thoughtful explorations of the core values and guiding principles of authors who are either from Kentucky or who are writing about Kentucky. The contributors range from former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, to Spalding University President Tori Murden McClure, to Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker, to best-selling authors Silas House and Sena Jeter Naslund, to ordinary Kentuckians from every corner of the Commonwealth and all walks of life.

The book also features a dozen essays from Edward R. Murrow's original 1950s This I Believe radio series, including those from newspaper publisher Barry Bingham, Sr., journalist and NAACP executive Harry McAlpin, and U of L professors Charles Parrish and Edmund Schlesinger.

With a foreword from public radio host and Kentuckian Bob Edwards and an introduction from former Courier-Journal Opinion Pages and Book Editor Keith Runyon, this book is filled with inspiring and thought-provoking essays that compel us to rethink not only how we have arrived at our own beliefs, but also the extent to which we share them with others.

This I Believe: Kentucky Reviews

  • Grace

    So, about this book: I was in Half Price Books, waiting to get the offer on the books I brought in to sell. This title caught my eye. I picked it up, scanned through it, and then read the Table of Contents.
    This anthology included essays by some familiar Kentuckians - Muhammad Ali, Toni McClure, Silas House, Frank X Walker, Cole Dowdy. WAIT - WHAT? Cole Dowdy! I flipped to page 116 to see his essay and read the bio. Sure enough it was the Cole Dowdy that I knew but didn't know he had an essay in this book. He was a student at the middle school I worked at, the son of a friend and coworker. And, he wrote the essay as an assignment of another friend and coworker, Lauren Leblanc. AND, Lauren has her own essay in This I Believe: On Motherhood. Just loved all that. Books are cool!