22. In Search of Two Characters: Some Intimate Aspects of Napoleon and his Son

Title: In Search of Two Characters: Some Intimate Aspects of Napoleon and his Son
Author: Dormer Creston
Year Published: 1945
Year Printed: 1945

Date Acquired: October 14, 2015
Where Purchased: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Price Paid: 16 Euros

Read Status: Read (February 16, 2016)

Notes/Thoughts

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21. Kentucky: A Guide to the Bluegrass State

Title: Kentucky: A Guide to the Bluegrass State
Author: Federal Writer's Project
Year Published:1939
Year Printed: 1947

Date Acquired: October 6, 2015
Where Purchased: Rhino Booksellers Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, TN
Price Paid: $15

Read Status: Read (January 28, 2016)

Notes/Thoughts

• Has book jacket and map in pocket of back cover
• American Guide Series
• Unfortunately, as reading I've found it's missing a lot of pages. At first it didn't really bother me because it was just the photo insert pages, but then I found the page with the Lexington map missing and that page had text on the back, which was particularly annoying in that it was the rest of the information on the Mary Todd Lincoln home.
• With all the mentions of the Big Sandy River, the song "Boatin' Up Sandy River" got stuck in my head reading this. (I'm familiar with it from the Bourbon Barrel Congress version.)
• p. 423 - "There are so many thrilling stories and legends of Daniel Boone’s adventures that the simplicity of the man has been quite obscured….Asked once if he ever got lost, he hesitated a moment; “not lost, so to speak,” he said, “but sometimes bewildered." - But is this quote about being bewildered and not lost a legend or not?

20. Home to the Hermatige

Title: Home to the Hermitage
Author: Alfred Leland Crabb
Year Published:1948
Year Printed: 1948

Date Acquired: October 6, 2015
Where Purchased: Rhino Booksellers Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, TN
Price Paid: $15

Read Status: Read (December 30, 2015)

Notes/Thoughts

• I've been trying to find Dinner at Belmont to complete the trilogy, but I only spotted Breakfast at the Hermitage here. I had saved this book on my wish list, too, though. I also almost bought another one of his books they had, but he wrote that one in the 1950s and I also found a Federal Writer's Project book to buy here making it three books this Nashville trip already.

19. Nashville: Athens of the South

Title: Nashville: Athens of the South
Author: Henry McRaven
Year Published: 1949
Year Printed: 1949

Date Acquired: October 2, 2015
Where Purchased: BookManBookWoman Books, Nashville, TN
Price Paid: $27.99 (It was marked $34.99, but there was a sale on history books and I also saved by signing up for their e-newsletter, which I was just doing because we like stopping here when we visit Nashville.)

Read Status: Read (December 21, 2015)

Notes/Thoughts

•  Signed by author