Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Tennessee's Pond of Liquor and Pool of Blood: A Complete and Detailed Account of Our Shameless Condition in Tennessee; The Cause and the Remedy
To have the ability to write a book is a great and grand gift, something that but few possess, and to write a real book is something that few have done. Those who have written books, and who are worthy to be called author, are and have been scholars and devoted their entire lives to the task.
Aside from authors of great masterpieces of literature that will forever thrill the minds and hearts of the great American people, Tennessee has given to the world's history statesmen, patriots, soldiers, orators, heroes and gmartyrs.' Some of these are: John Sevier, one of the heroes of the King's Mountain, Father of Tennessee and the first governor of the grand old Volunteer State; James Robertson, founder of Nashville, the capital city of Tennessee; Andrew Jackson, hero of New Orleans and the nation, and one of the greatest presidents the United States has ever had; John Bell, United States senator, cabinet officer and candidate for vice-president in 1860; Felix Grundy, United States senator, orator and cabinet officer; James K. Polk, president of the United States; Bedford Forest, great military leader; Sam Davis, hero and martyr; William B. Bate, hero of the Civil War, governor and United States senator; Edward Ward Car mack, United States senator, statesman, orator and martyr.
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