" Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed
by the University Press of Kentucky This volume is the first
comprehensive and in-depth history of Kentucky during the first
half of the 20th century. State Historian James C. Klotter examines
in depth not only the people and their lives but also the state's
economy, educational system, cultural activities, politics, and
folkways. He demonstrates how, enduring images and stereotypes
developed that have shaped the state's progress throughout the
century. In his view, the first half of the century were years of
unrealized promises and failed dreams. Yet amid poverty there was
plenty; along with educational weaknesses were cultural strengths;
beside partisanship there was leadership. "This is an account of
what happened in Kentucky and to Kentucky," Klotter writes. "It
focuses on the process and the possibility of change, and how the
people sought to adjust and to balance the positives of their past
with the promises of their future. To know better what happened
between 1900 and 1950 requires a study of not only the formal
actions taken, but also the irony of actions, the presence of
paradoxes, and the quieter things that shaped the state's
character, its essence, its heart and its soul." A landmark in
historical writing about the state, Kentucky: Portrait in Paradox
is complemented by more than one hundred photographs and
illustrations.
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