Binghams of Louisville

Binghams of Louisville
Author: David Chandler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9785552050000

David Chandler's riveting expose of the rise and fall of the house of Bingham, a controversial American dynasty, is finally released after generating one of the most heated publishing disputes in years. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.

Passion and Prejudice

Passion and Prejudice
Author: Sallie Bingham
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781557830777

A member of the moneyed Bingham family recounts her family's rise to power over several decades and their subsequent downfall amidst family infighting and rumors of a family murder

House of Dreams

House of Dreams
Author: Marie Brenner
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The inside story of the tragic collapse of the Binghams of Louisville and the bitter family quarrel that led to the loss of their journalistic empire. 16-page black-and-white photo insert.

Irrepressible

Irrepressible
Author: Emily Bingham
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015-06-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0809094649

"Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameful, seductive and brilliant, and often terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London she drove men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her lesbian love affairs made her the subject of derision and drove a doctor to try to cure her. After the speed and pleasure of her youth, the toxicity of judgment coupled with her own anxieties led to years of addiction and breakdowns, "--Novelist.

Robert Worth Bingham and the Southern Mystique

Robert Worth Bingham and the Southern Mystique
Author: William Elliott Ellis
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780873385787

The story of Mr. Bingham, newspaper publisher, political leader, and ambassador, who was once charged with contributing to the death of his second wife "whose bequeath of five million dollars helped purchase the Louisville Courier-Journal."--Jacket.

Written Into History

Written Into History
Author: Anthony Lewis
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2002-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780805071788

A collection of articles from "The New York Times" which profile significant historical events.

Navigating the West

Navigating the West
Author: Nenette Luarca-Shoaf
Publisher: Other Distribution
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300206708

A new look at George Caleb Bingham's iconic river paintings and his creative process in making them George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Missouri as a child and began painting the scenes of Missouri life for which he is now famous in the 1840s. Navigating the West explores how Bingham's iconic river paintings reveal the cultural and economic significance of the massive Mississippi and Missouri waterways to mid-19th-century society. Focusing on the artist's working methods and preparatory drawings, the book also explores Bingham's representations of people and places and situates these images in a dialogue with other contemporary depictions of the region. Of particular note are two landmark essays investigating Bingham's creative process through comparisons of infrared images of 17 of his paintings with both his preparatory drawings and the completed works, casting new light on his previously understudied process. Technical analysis of the artist's lauded masterpiece, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, reveals Bingham's considerable revisions to the painting. In the concluding essay, the 20th-century revival of the artist's work is discussed within the context of American Regionalism and in light of a shifting sequence of narratives about the nation's past and future. Distributed for the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Saint Louis Art Museum Exhibition Schedule: Amon Carter Museum of American Art (10/04/14-01/04/15) Saint Louis Art Museum (02/22/15-05/17/15) The Metropolitan Museum of Art (06/22/15-09/20/15)

Payne Hollow Journal

Payne Hollow Journal
Author: Harlan Hubbard
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2014-07-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0813147646

Harlan Hubbard was Kentucky's Thoreau, and his journals are intimate records of a life lived in harmony with nature. For more than fifty years the artist, writer, and homesteader described daily activities and recorded keen observations as he sought to live simply and authentically. The third and climactic volume of his journals, Payne Hollow Journal, contains entries from the years he and his wife, Anna, lived at their Payne Hollow home along the Ohio River's Kentucky shore. There they mastered the arts of country life, building their own stone and timber house in 1952 and raising their own food. To live with nature was not a novel experience for the couple; earlier they had floated down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans on their homemade shantyboat. Hubbard described this journey in Shantyboat Journal, the basis for his Shantyboat and Shantyboat on the Bayous. By turns poetic and practical, Payne Hollow Journal celebrates nature's intense beauty and sometimes harsh realities as perhaps only an artist can see them. Here Hubbard reveals how dedication to work that provides sustenance—gardening, wood chopping, fishing, foraging, and raising goats-can also be fulfilling. Don Wallis's arrangement of the Payne Hollow entries reflects the seasonal changes in Hubbard and his life as well as in the natural world around him. At the beginning of this volume Hubbard writes, "When we are away from Payne Hollow, that place does not seem real or possible.... It is hard to explain our situation, to give reasons for our living this way to people who have no understanding or sympathy." A visit to the Hubbards' home through Payne Hollow Journal is ample explanation for anyone who has yearned to lead a life of simplicity and purpose.

Conversations with Kentucky Writers II

Conversations with Kentucky Writers II
Author: Linda Elisabeth LaPinta
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813185246

In this sequel to Conversations with Kentucky Writers, L. Elisabeth Beattie brings together in-depth interviews with sixteen of the state's premiere wordsmiths. This new volume offers the perspectives of poets, journalists, and scholars as they discuss their views on creativity, the teaching of writing, and the importance of Kentucky in their work. They talk frankly about how and why they do what they do. The writers speak for themselves, and their thoughts come alive on the page. Beattie's interviews reveal the allegiances and alliances among Kentucky writers that have shaped literary trends by bringing together people with shared interests, values, subjects, and styles. The interviewees include authors who are captivated in other writers and in what they have to say about the process and craft of writing; educators who are interested in Kentucky writers and what their work reveals about the nature of creativity; and historians who are concerned with Kentucky's literary and cultural heritage. The interviews reveal patterns in Kentucky literature from mid-century to the millennium, as authors talk about how their sense of place has changed over the decades and reveal the ways in which the roots of Kentucky writing have produced a literary flowering at the century's end. Includes: Sallie Bingham, Joy Bale Boone, Thomas D. Clark, John Egerton, Sarah Gorham, Lynwood Montell, Maureen Morehead, John Ed Pearce, Ameilia Blossom Pegram, Karen Robards, Jeffrey Skinner, Frederick Smock, Frank Steele, Martha Bennett Stiles, Richard Taylor, and Michael Williams.