Lindsey Apple, retired professor and chair of
history at Georgetown College, is the editor of Scott County: A
History and author of Cautious Rebel: A Biography of Susan Clay
Sawitzky. He lives in Georgetown, KY.
""apple's captivating and exhaustive account of a prominent but
troubled American political family stands as an important
contribution to the history of nineteenth-century America and
sugggests ways future biographers of important politicians might
approach their families and legacies." -- Anne E. Marshall,
Mississippi State University, The Journal of Southern History"
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""A long overdue (and wonderfully readable) family biography."--
H-Net Reviews" --
""Apple... offers a long overdue (and wonderfully readable) family
biography." -- H-Kentucky" --
""Apple's book is at its best when it shows how generations of
Clays struggled to reconcile the family image of Henry with
changing times."-- Ohio Valley History" --
""Apple's book is more than just a biography... as he delves into
the Clay family in Kentucky and its descendants. In focusing on
Clay's family members, Apple reveals the untold back story of an
American Family and the struggle that some of its members had with
success, fame, depression, alcoholism, and mental illness." -- The
Tucson Citizen" --
""Apple's writing is smooth and easy, and he handles Clay's nearly
100 descendants in a conversational style."-- Bowling Green Daily
News" --
""Readers will discover that this great politician faced not only
major public disappointments but also demons of his own making. The
successes and ruined lives of so many members of Clay's immediate
family did not end with his death. We need more family histories of
this extraordinary caliber." -- Bertram Wyatt-Brown, author
Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South" --
""Reveals the family's struggles, including those shared by many
Lexington and Kentucky families with differing views of the Civil
War."-- Kentucky Monthly" --
"The book was a fascinating, in depth look at a family dealing with
their demons as well as those of their ancestors. [...] Overall,
the book was very enjoyable and an interesting study in family
histories." -- Georgia Library Quarterly
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