Thomas D Clark

The Southern Country Editor

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The bibliography he has provided includes 183 newspapers, published in towns that stretched from North Carolina to Texas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 150mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780872497672
• ISBN-10: 0872497674
• Artikelnr.: 21247564

Autorenporträt

Thomas D. Clark was born in 1903 and raised on a farm in north Mississippi. He received his early education in a country school. At age 12 he dropped out and worked full-time on his father's farm. By age 22 he had graduated from the University of Mississippi at Oxford, where he worked on the school newspaper. Upon graduation, he enrolled at the University of Kentucky to pursue a master's degree in history, and in 1932, he received his doctorate from Duke University. Clark taught history at the University of Kentucky from 1935 to 1965. He has written several books including Pills, Plows, and Petticoats; History of Kentucky and The Rampaging Frontier and served as consulting editor for the agricultural section of the Encyclopedia of Southern History.