The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (716 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0671631675 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 608 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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An account of the rise and collapse of the Bingham family of Kentucky chronicles three generations of a newspaper dynasty and the battles that destroyed the family.
James Mclean said The Patriarch: The Bingham Dynasty. I have been interested in Kentucky history since my daughter went to Univ. of Kentucky. Since the Binghams owned the Lexington Herald and Louisville Courier and were in politics as well, I just found interesting. But, the tragedy and fascinating facts of their lives was astonishing.. A Shakespearean tale of triumph and tragedy John I. Carney I work at a small-town newspaper in Tennessee, but I have family members in Louisville, and in the late 1980s I sometimes heard my aunt complain about the state of Louisville media after the Bingham empire fell apart. So when I saw a copy of this book, I had to read it. I was not disappointed. Th. "Great book about a not-so-great family" according to Richard Niell Donovan. I recently finished "The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times." It was one of the best research and best written books that I have read, so I went looking for other books by Susan Tifft and her husband, Alex Jones.I have now read most of "The Patriarch: The Rise and Fa
. Her stepson, "patriarch" Barry Bingham Sr., dominated the family with manipulative cunning while remaining emotionally aloof. But this enthralling, juicy, prodigiously researched saga presents compelling evidence that she died from cardiovascular syphilis--and that she knew she had the ailment when she married her cruelly unforgiving husband. From Publishers Weekly Each succeeding generation of the Bingham clan, Kentucky's self-styled "First Family" and owners of a progressive newspaper empire that crumbled in 1986, consid