Mike Barry and the Kentucky Irish American : an anthology / Clyde F. Crews, editor ; with a foreword by Mrs. Barry Bingham, Sr.

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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; EXCERPTS FROM SELECTED EDITORIALS FROM THE MIKE BARRY YEARS; 1 A Brother in Arms; The Jewish Massacre; The Seventieth Derby; Pearl Harbor Recalled; The Terrific Betty Hutton; The Japanese Surrender; My Old Kentucky Home-Tokyo Version; 2 The Cold War Over There; Drop It Now; Brave People; Sad Christinas; Two Words; Six Crowded Years; Only Halfway; Skin Thin; Cowards for War; Free From Care; Light Ahead; Onward and Downward; 3 The Cold War at Home; One Man Team; We Surrender Another Word; Sweeter Still.

The Lip, Ecclesiastical VersionOne Only; Catholic Rightists Most Violent; 4 The National Political Scene; Pray We Must; Big Show; Happy Day; Happy Man; Exit George; J. Edgar the Scofflaw; Oscar Sure; All Bow Low; 5 The Kentucky Political Scene; Hang Down Your Heads!; Long Drag; ""Martyr"" Returns; Never a Dixiecrat, Says Happy; The Motto of the Oxford Crew; Democrats Can Still Lose; Laugh, Clown, Laugh; Moby Dick Swims Home; Chandler Strong at Gethsemane; Congratulations or Sympathy?; Old Refrain; 6 The Kennedy Years; Dreamer Joe; Kennedy Monopolizes Political News.

Something for Catholics to RememberBig Steal; Mourners All; Darkest Day; 7 The Civil Rights Movement; Democrats Should Name Negro; Hot Water; Why the Delay in Denouncing Director?; King Abdicates; All Three Groups Are Wrong; 8 The City Scene; Farnsley Commits Political Suicide; Police Hit New Low; John W.W.W.W. Today; Daylight Saving Squawks Start; Broadway's Best, It Says; Did They Have to Say Flood?; Wise Decision; Another Flop Coining Up; Our Day Is Here; Sticks and Stones Department; Safety Rule for Derby Visitors; 9 The Passing Show; Courier Journal Again Attacks Ireland.

Practices Against Own PreachingThe Narrow Groove of Choice; New Year's Resolutions for 1960; A Warm, Personal Message From the Staff About Christinas Gift Subscriptions; The Monk Who Didn't Sing; A Fable; Conviction and Intensity; Happiness; Patriotism; Formula for Failure; Greatness of Civic Spirit; Prejudice; Happiness; Reformers; Scandal and Truth; Human Nature; 10 The Sporting Life; Old, Old Story; Racial Fair Play; Oh, Happy Day; Bluegrass Browning; Little Silver Book; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Float Like a Butterfly; Sunday Serenade; Three Little Words; Index.

The Kentucky Irish American began life in 1898 as one of many ethnic newspapers in America, but by its final years it attracted an avid national audience of many ethnicities. From 1925, the KIA was owned and edited by the Barry family of Louisville: by John J. Barry to 1950, and by his son Michael to its demise in 1968. This anthology focuses on the Mike Barry years -- a time of Cold War and Vietnam, of Kennedy, Nixon, McCarthy, Goldwater, and Happy Chandler. Under Mike's brilliant editorship, the KIA offered its readers a richly textured, pungent voice that combined humor with a constant pu.

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